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Teen Girls and Technology: What's the Problem, What's the Solution?
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Farmer, Lesley – ALA Editions, 2008
Are teenage girls being left behind in the technology race? According to author and professor Lesley Farmer, teenage girls are not embracing technology and all of its potential impact on their futures. In "Teen Girls and Technology", Farmer explores the developmental issues of teen girls, including the reality of girls and tech as it now stands.…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Computer Use
Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success.
Graham, Stedman – 2000
Noting that during the teenage years, adolescents may be faced with life-changing decisions and challenges, this book guides adolescent readers to a better understanding of themselves, their strengths, and their desires, while helping them to devise and achieve plans for realizing their visions. The book bridges the gap between education and the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Change Strategies, Decision Making
For All Our Daughters: How Mentoring Helps Young Women and Girls Master the Art of Growing Up.
Echevarria, Pegine – 1998
As girls face the serious emotional, physical, and developmental challenges during youth and adolescence, external support from a nonparental female role model is an essential, and too frequently ignored, requirement for healthy development. This book presents a process for mentoring young women and girls by providing guidance in five areas:…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Change Strategies
Educating Minds and Hearts: Social Emotional Learning and the Passage into Adolescence. Series on Social Emotional Learning.
Cohen, Jonathan, Ed. – 1999
Based on the view that social and emotional learning (SEL) needs to be an integral part of middle school education, this book provides an overview to social and emotional learning and the development of middle school students, presents a representative range of SEL programs and perspectives, and offers reflections on the current status of SEL and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Change Strategies, Conflict Resolution
Promoting Positive Outcomes: Issues in Children's and Families' Lives. The University of Illinois at Chicago Series on Children and Youth.
Reynolds, Arthur J., Ed.; Walberg, Herbert J., Ed.; Weissberg, Roger P., Ed. – 1999
In recent years, issues affecting children and youth have received increased attention at the national and local levels, with numerous reports detailing challenges and offering solutions. Targeted toward policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and those seeking understanding of ideas for social and educational reform, this book focuses on promising…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Change Strategies, Child Development
Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century. Challenges Facing Europe and the United States. Johann Jacobs Foundation Conference Series, Volume 4.
Takanishi, Ruby, Ed.; Hamburg, David A., Ed. – 1997
This book contains 11 papers based on presentations at a 1994 conference held in Marbach, Germany, and a 1995 conference in Geneva, Switzerland, focusing on frontiers in the education of young adolescents in European countries and the United States. The following papers are included: "Foreword" (Klaus J. Jacobs); "Meeting the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Biology, Change Strategies, Cross Cultural Studies