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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
Wigfield, Allan; Tonks, Stephen – 2002
This chapter discusses the development of achievement motivation during adolescence from the perspective of expectancy-value theory, and explains how adolescents' expectancies for success and achievement values change during adolescence, particularly during educational transitions such as that from elementary to middle school and from middle to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Activities, Adolescent Attitudes