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Peer reviewedJorgensen, Stephen R.; Alexander, Sharon J. – Theory into Practice, 1983
A complex set of issues plague the efforts of public school sex education programs to reduce the level of pregnancy risk among adolescents. Issues include: (1) uncertain status of sex education; (2) training the teacher; (3) support among school leaders; (4) other influences on adolescent development; (5) developmental characteristics of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Educational Needs, Pregnancy
Peer reviewedSchvaneveldt, Jay D.; Adams, Gerald R. – Theory into Practice, 1983
The amount and type of decision-making activities available to and used by adolescents are examined. Adolescents' effectiveness in making decisions, methods they employ while doing so, and various decision-making models that may help adolescents perfect decision-making skills are discussed. (CJ)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Peer reviewedGullotta, Thomas P. – Theory into Practice, 1983
This article examines stresses faced by today's adolescents, the problem of alienation from adult society, and some partial answers to these problems. (CJ)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Alienation, Educational Needs, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedThornburg, Hershel D. – Theory into Practice, 1983
The issue of whether or not early adolescence is a transitional or stable period of development may be dependent on our ability to describe ways in which early adolescents are quantitatively and qualitatively different from when they were children and how these early adolescent characteristics are forerunners to the more elaborate constructs of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedWittig, Michele Andrisin – Theory into Practice, 1983
Research involving adolescent identification with and development of sex roles is reviewed in the areas of cognitive skills and personality traits, theories of sex role development, and minority group adolescent sex role development. Emerging issues and educational implications in these areas are discussed. (CJ)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Androgyny, Identification (Psychology), Minority Groups
Peer reviewedMontemayor, Raymond; Clayton, Mark D. – Theory into Practice, 1983
The relationship between maternal employment and adolescent development is enormously complex, and no simple generalizations are possible. Many intervening variables alter the impact that maternal employment has on adolescent development. There is an urgent need to discover what impact this arrangement has on adolescent development. (CJ)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Employed Parents, Family Environment
Peer reviewedLesko, Nancy – Theory into Practice, 1994
Develops the thesis of the interrelationships of conceptions of adolescents with curricula and school organization by examining the Carnegie Council (1989) reform report on middle schools, "Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century." The article discusses economic and social contexts of the report, historical…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Curriculum Development, Early Adolescents, Educational Change
Peer reviewedEnright, Robert D; And Others – Theory into Practice, 1983
Strategies for promoting moral development in early adolescence reviewed include the "plus-one" model, Deliberate Psychological Education, didactic courses in social studies, and a high school Just Community on moral reasoning. (CJ)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Educational Strategies
