Fitting in, standing out : navigating the social challenges of high school to get an education / / Robert Crosnoe [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459617703321
• Autore: Crosnoe Robert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-107-22117-X; 1-139-06387-1; 1-283-11111-X; 9786613111111; 1-139-07627-2; 0-511-79326-X; 1-139-08310-4; 1-139-08083-0; 1-139-07856-9; 1-139-07055-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 305.2350973/090511
• Soggetti: High school student orientation; Teenagers; Teenagers - Education; Adolescence; Social influence; High school students - Social life and customs - 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. High schools as contexts of development -- pt. 2. A case study of social and academic experiences in high school -- pt. 3. Helping teenagers navigate high school.
• Sommario/riassunto: In American high schools, teenagers must navigate complex youth cultures that often prize being 'real' while punishing difference. Adults may view such social turbulence as a timeless, ultimately harmless rite of passage, but changes in American society are intensifying this rite ; and allowing its effects to cascade into adulthood. Integrating national statistics with interviews and observations from a single school, this book explores this phenomenon. It makes the case that recent macro-level trends, such as economic restructuring and technological change, mean that the social dynamics of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school; it looks at teenagers who do not fit in socially at school - including many who are obese or gay - to illustrate this phenomenon; and it crafts recommendations for parents, teachers and policy-makers about how to protect teenagers in trouble. The result is a story of adolescence that hits home with anyone who remembers high school.