Joining Society: Social Interaction and Learning in Adolescence and Youth

by Edited by Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont , Clotilde Pontecorvo , Lauren B. Resnick , Tania Zittoun , Barbara Burge

• ISBN13: 9780521817196
• ISBN10: 0521817196
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Sheds new light on the processes of socialization on today's youth.

Table of Contents

Part I. Youth-Constructed Socialization: 1. Risks, rules, and roles: youth perspective on the work of learning for community development Shirley Brice Heath

2. Youth between integration and disaffiliation in French cities Laurence Roulleau-Berger

3. A new industry, a new lifestyle Karsten Hundeide

4. Becoming a member by following the rules Alain Coulon

Part II. Personal Agency through Collective Activity: 5. Learning and thinking in adolescence and youth: how to inhabit new provinces of meaning Felice Carugati

6. From the provinces of meaning to the capital of a good self: some reflections on learning and thinking in the process of growing adult in society John Rijsman

7. Preapprenticeship: a transitional space Tania Zittoun

Part III. Learning in Practice and Discourse: 8. From learning lessons to living knowledge: instructional discourse and life experiences of youth in complex society Roger Sä

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9. Practice and discourse as the intersection of individual and social in human development Jonathan Tudge

10. Talking matters: using interdependencies of individual and collective action in youthful learning David Middleton

11. Young people's use of information and communication technologies: the role of sociocultural abilities Jacques Perriault

Part IV. Intergenerational Sites for Thinking: 12. Thinking with others: the social dimension of learning in families and schools Clotilde Pontecorvo

13. The role of discourse in the transformation of parent-adolescent relationships Manfred Hofer

14. Interactive minds: a paradigm from lifespan psychology Ursula M. Staudinger

15. Thinking 'youth', thinking 'school': social representations and field work in educational research Claude Albert Kaiser

Part V. Pathways to Adulthood in national Context: 16. Joining society in Europe: convergence or sustainability of national specificities Annie Fouquet

17. The school-to-work transition: problems and indicators Paul Ryan

18. To be young in Yugoslavia: living after a social Chernobyl Dragan Popadic

19. Youth and unions in North America's service society Stuart Tannock

20. Joining society: with what certainty? Saul Menghnagi.