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Cicero, Ethan C.; Wesp, Linda M. – Journal of School Nursing, 2017
Throughout the United States, there has been a rise in public discourse about transgender people and transgender issues. Much of this attention stems from passed and proposed anti-LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning) legislation, including "bathroom bills" that would require transgender people to use public…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Well Being, Social Bias, School Nurses
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Kehily, Mary Jane – Gender and Education, 2012
This paper aims to contextualise debates on the sexualisation of girls by providing ways of interpreting it from different perspectives--including the perspectives of girls themselves. Asking not "are" girls being prematurely sexualised but "how" can this debate be understood as a feature of time and place and how does it…
Descriptors: Females, Sexuality, Puberty, Feminism
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Freer, Patirck K. – Music Educators Journal, 2009
During two decades of observing and leading middle school choral rehearsals, the author has observed that teachers frequently repeat exactly the warm-ups they present to their young adolescent choirs at every rehearsal. If teachers know one thing about middle school students, they know that they are constantly changing--physically, intellectually,…
Descriptors: Singing, Early Adolescents, Music Education, Middle Schools
Hymowitz, Kay S. – American Educator, 2000
The market and advertising media aimed at children has skyrocketed in recent years. Many new products targeting 8-12-year-olds appeal to their sense of teen fashion, image consciousness, and independence from adults. Describes the development of this market aimed at early adolescents and how it is changing childhood as Americans have known it. (SM)
Descriptors: Advertising, Child Development, Children, Early Adolescents
Thornburg, Hershel D. – 1980
The extent to which the middle school becomes a true educational alternative is directly related to the ability of middle school educators and researchers to identify and investigate the developmental needs and learning capacities of students. Three important developmental characteristics of early adolescents are a high need for peer friendships,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Friendship