Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States (The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521570654 ISBN 13: 9780521570657

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Early adolescence, a critically important developmental phase in the lives of young people, has been neglected in terms of its potential to prevent educational and health problems. Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States attempts to address this neglect by focusing on cross-national perspectives and linking fundamental research on adolescent development to the challenges of preparing young people for adult life. This volume's contributors describe the theory, design, and implementation of innovative comprehensive education and health approaches. The contributors give serious consideration to increasing the positive influence of education in promoting literacy for a high-technology economy, healthy lifestyles, and responsible citizenship. Co-editor David Hamburg was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 9, 1996.

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Book Description

In Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States, experts address the question of how countries can produce well-educated, healthy, and productive youth. They describe the theory, design, and implementation of innovative comprehensive education and health approaches. This book will be of particular interest to those interested in cross-national perspectives on the linkage between education and health, life skills training, and the engagement of families and other social institutions in the development of young adolescents

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521570654
• ISBN 13: 9780521570657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Takanishi Ruby, Hamburg David A.