Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators

Nakkula, Michael J.; Toshalis, Eric

ISBN 10: 1891792318 / ISBN 13: 9781891792311

Published by Harvard Education PR, 2006

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Synopsis:

Adolescent development research and theory have tremendous potential to inform the work of high school teachers, counselors, and administrators. Understanding Youth bridges the gap between adolescent development theory and practice.

Nakkula and Toshalis explore how factors such as social class, peer and adult relationships, gender norms, and the media help to shape adolescents’ sense of themselves and their future expectations and aspirations.

About the Author:

Michael J. Nakkula is a research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where he has taught courses on counseling, urban education, and adolescent development and helped develop HGSE’s Risk and Prevention Program. Nakkula was named HGSE’s inaugural holder of the Kargman Assistant Professorship in Human Development and Urban Education, an appointment he held from 1998 to 2004. He is the coauthor, with Sharon Ravitch, of Matters of Interpretation: Reciprocal Transformation in Therapeutic and Developmental Relationships with Youth (1998). His current research focuses on the experiences of adolescents as they traverse the challenges of urban educational systems en route to work, college, and careers. Nakkula earned bachelor’s degrees in communications and psychology from Michigan State University, a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Minnesota–Duluth, and his doctorate in counseling and consulting psychology from HGSE.

Eric Toshalis is an instructor in education and advanced doctoral candidate at HGSE. A former middle and high school educator, he has worked with youth and adults in schools as a coach, mentor teacher, community activist, teachers union president, afterschool group leader, and curriculum writer. Since 2003 he has cotaught the course on adolescent development for preservice teachers in Harvard’s teacher education program. As a researcher, Toshalis studies how teachers and students variously resist the tendency of public schools to reproduce social inequality and how such resistance can be promoted in the classroom. He received his bachelor’s degree, teaching credential, and master’s degree in education from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his master of theological studies from Harvard Divinity School.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development ...
Publisher: Harvard Education PR
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket