Act Your Age!: A Cultural Construction of Adolescence

Author:   Nancy Lesko (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) ,  Frank Topping
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9780415887618


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   15 March 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Act Your Age!: A Cultural Construction of Adolescence


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Author:   Nancy Lesko (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) ,  Frank Topping
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780415887618


ISBN 10:   0415887615
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   15 March 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments, Series Editor’s Introduction Michael W. Apple, Introduction Troubling Teenagers 1. Up and Down the Great Chain of Being Progress and Degeneration in Children, Race, and Nation 2. Making Adolescence at the Turn of the Century Romancing and Administering Youth 3. Back to the Future Model Middle Schools Recirculate Fin-de-Siècle Ideas 4. Time Matters in Adolescence 5.Cold War Containments: Freedom, Youth, and Identity in the 1950s 6.""Before Their Time"" Teenage Mothers Violate the Order of Proper Development 7. Our Guys/Good Guys Playing with High School Athletic Privilege and Power 8. When the Romance Is Gone…Youth Development In New Times 9. Cutting Free from the Great Chain of Being Toward Untimely Teenagers Afterword to the Second Edition Notes References Author Index Subject Index"

Reviews

""Lesko achieves the unusual feat of producing an utterly readable and compelling story of new perspectives on adolescence, yet one which is an impressive exemplar of new theory and sustained scholarship. The book is down to earth yet theoretically challenging. It is an exciting as well as important addition to the current array of writing about young people and turns much of that writing on its head."" -- Lyn Yates, author of The Education of Girls


"""Lesko achieves the unusual feat of producing an utterly readable and compelling story of new perspectives on adolescence, yet one which is an impressive exemplar of new theory and sustained scholarship. The book is down to earth yet theoretically challenging. It is an exciting as well as important addition to the current array of writing about young people and turns much of that writing on its head."" -- Lyn Yates, author of The Education of Girls"


Lesko achieves the unusual feat of producing an utterly readable and compelling story of new perspectives on adolescence, yet one which is an impressive exemplar of new theory and sustained scholarship. The book is down to earth yet theoretically challenging. It is an exciting as well as important addition to the current array of writing about young people and turns much of that writing on its head. -- Lyn Yates, author of The Education of Girls


Author Information

Nancy Lesko is Maxine Greene Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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