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Savitz-Romer, Mandy; Bouffard, Suzanne M. – Harvard Education Press, 2012
How can an understanding of adolescent development inform strategies and practices for supporting first-generation college goers? In "Ready, Willing, and Able," Mandy Savitz-Romer and Suzanne Bouffard focus on the developmental tasks and competencies that young people need to develop in order to plan for and succeed in higher education. These…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Developmental Tasks, Adolescents, Access to Education
Kipke, Michele D., Ed. – 1999
This report constitutes one of the first activities of the Forum on Adolescence, a cross-cutting activity of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academies. Established under the auspices of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families, the forum's overarching mission is to synthesize, analyze, and evaluate…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Developmental Tasks
Eder, Donna; And Others – 1995
This book reports the findings of a study of adolescent culture and language in eighth graders. The books consists of ten chapters including discussions of the following topics: (1) "Remember When?" a theoretical framework; (2) "Gender, Talk, and School Culture," an interpretive and a dialectic approach to the study of gender, talk, and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Coping