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OverviewThere is a widespread and deep awareness that all is not well with American public education nor with the students, educators, and administrators who are charged with making citizens literate. Joseph Adelson's work has gained considerable prominence in this ongoing reevaluation. Writing with force, verve, and the tools of advanced study, Adelson's book provides what might be the most comprehensive look at American education since the work of Diane Ravitch. The materials include revised and updated versions of essays that caused a real stir when they first appeared in the pages of Commentary, Daedalus, The American Scholar, and The Public Interest, among other places. The work goes against the grain of rhetoric but quite with the grain of the best in social science: That the erosion of trust in the American young has been far less severe than in the American old, that the degree of pathology, alienation, and rebelliousness in the American adolescent population is far from alarming. On the whole, each and every serious research study shows the vast majority of teenagers to be competent, purposeful, at ease with themselves, and closely bonded to their families and their values. This is, however, no pollyannish version of American education, but a tough-minded critique of educators and administrators who prefer ideological generalities to empirical truths, and whose vested interests are not in the requirements of learning, but ultimately in its subversion. The invention of adolescence was a search for a problem child more nearly detected in problematic adults. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph AdelsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9781412807920ISBN 10: 1412807921 Pages: 306 Publication Date: 29 February 2008 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface, Acknowledgments, Part I Recent History of the Schools, Part II Current and Recurrent Problems of American Education, Part III Adolescence and Its Politics, Part IV Adolecents and Their Politics, Part V Psychology and PsychoanalysisReviews"""This is an excellent collection of essays on the political life course of adolescence. Most of these essays are carefully organized and well written. Readers might not alaways agree with Adelson's pungent, polemic style and dogged realism; and they might find some of his arguments worn...but they will always find in reading these essays a compassionate, first rate scholar searching for core principals to explain adolescent bejavior."" - Richard G. Braungart, Contemporary Sociology""" This is an excellent collection of essays on the political life course of adolescence. Most of these essays are carefully organized and well written. Readers might not alaways agree with Adelson's pungent, polemic style and dogged realism; and they might find some of his arguments worn...but they will always find in reading these essays a compassionate, first rate scholar searching for core principals to explain adolescent bejavior. - Richard G. Braungart, Contemporary Sociology Author InformationJoseph Adelson is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Michigan. He has written widely in scholarly and popular journals, and is the editor of the highly regarded Handbook of Adolescent Psychology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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