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Sherif, Victoria – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
Although youth leadership has been well described within the literature, the dearth of theoretically derived models that specifically reflect ethics and comprehensive nature of youth development still remains. The purpose of this article is to synthesize the existing youth leadership research and theories of personality development to propose a…
Descriptors: Youth Leaders, Personality Development, Personality Theories, Ethics
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Mulvaney, Matthew Keefe – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
According to the narrative perspective on personality development, personality is constructed largely by interpreting and representing experience in story format (scripts) over the course of the lifespan. The focus of this paper is to describe briefly the narrative perspective on personality development during childhood and adolescence, to discuss…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Development, Child Development, Young Children
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Laycraft, Krystyna – Roeper Review, 2009
Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration describes patterns and explains mechanisms of human development and has been successfully applied to understanding of gifted individuals. This article shows how the concepts of chaos theory and self-organization such as the sensitivity to initial conditions, positive and negative feedback, bifurcation…
Descriptors: Gifted, Personality, Adjustment (to Environment), Depression (Psychology)
Porter, Susan Eva – Independent School, 2010
Teenagers, and many preteens, can't get away from their hormone-filled bodies; therefore, they spend lots of time during school contending with issues of sexuality--from profound questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to more mundane issues such as whom a particularly cute classmate will choose to sit next to in English. Like it or…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Adolescents, Guidelines, Sexuality
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Arredondo-Dowd, Patricia M. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1980
The Cross-Cultural Experiences program for immigrant adolescents assumes that these adolescents are not different from their American-born contemporaries in ego development, moral reasoning, and identity development. The experimental curriculum stimulates psychological development. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Experimental Curriculum, Humanistic Education
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Rathunde, Kevin – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Discusses similarities between Montessori method and optimal experience theory. Considers three conceptual similarities between these educational theories: the child as focal point of human society; the role of deep concentration in learning and the evolution of human nature; and the understanding that social contexts can be designed to promote…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Educational Research, Educational Theories
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Goldmeier, John; Fandetti, Donald V. – Child Welfare, 1991
The use of self-psychology, a theory first developed by Heinz Kohut, is discussed and illustrated with case examples from child welfare practice. The cases demonstrate that self-psychology can enhance an ecological model. The ways in which self-psychology can enrich the social worker's therapeutic role in permanency planning are emphasized.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Children, Empathy
Long, William A., Jr. – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1989
Discusses temperamental qualities of normal adolescents related to learning and the learning process. Describes emotional and personality growth including four ancillary traits, passive and aggressive by dependent and independent children. Provides case stories. (YP)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Emotional Development
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Kahn, David – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Compares and connects the cosmic awareness emerging in the elementary classroom to adolescent cosmic sensibility embedded in the experience of the Hershey Montessori Farm School. Provides examples of students' poetry to support Montessori's concept of valorization of personality as each individual turns toward maturity. (Author/TJQ)
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Childrens Writing, Elementary Education
Starkey, Hugh – 1982
This report discusses a symposium held in Sweden in 1980 by the Council of Europe to explore ways for schools to help prepare teenagers for life. The specific objectives of the symposium were to discuss the aims and objectives of and approaches to social education in schools for students in the 14-19 age group and to make recommendations which…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Education, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
Sprinthall, Norman A. – 1973
The program described is an attempt to create regular classroom learning experiences for teenagers which promote psychological development. Based on concepts from stage theory, the objectives of the classes are to increase the level of psychological maturity of the pupils while teaching particular psychological skills. The course is designed as a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Counseling, Curriculum Development, Developmental Psychology
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Fleischer, Leonard – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2005
Cultures throughout time have marked the passage of young people into adulthood with carefully designed tasks and rituals. The purpose of these activities is to prepare youth to mindfully consider their individual and communal life intention. The relative lack of modern rites of passage for adolescents is seen as having significant implications…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Course Content, Values Education, Trend Analysis
Mitchell, John J. – 1992
Adolescent struggle is about the forces which shape the self and direct the search for identity. It examines the factors which incline young people toward self-centeredness, irrationality and faulty decision-making. Section 1 of the book deals with the adolescent self and two of the most important determinants of adolescent behavior: egocentrism…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes
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Langford, Peter E.; Claydon, Leslie F. – Educational Studies, 1989
Reports on the results of 2 studies that use a non-Kohlbergian approach to categorizing justifications for moral judgments by Australian subjects from 7 to 15 and from 7 to 21 years. These studies support the view that moral reasoning up to late adolescence is largely a product of socialization. (KO)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Research, Ethics, Foreign Countries
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Taylor, John H.; Walker, Lawrence J. – Journal of Moral Education, 1997
Recommends the application of cognitive-developmental theory with young offenders. The theory claims that moral reasoning can be developed through discussion with others. Summarizes a study where 40 young offenders participated in moral-dilemma discussions with another subject that differed in level of moral reasoning and peer status. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Ethical Instruction