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Youth, Education, and the Role of Society: Rethinking Learning in the High School Years
Robert Halpern
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This book underscores the limitations of American high schools while developing the necessary groundwork to prepare students for the real world. It introduces out-of-school and community programs that greatly improve learning objectives. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JNLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Youth, Education, and the Role of Society examines the “learning landscape” currently available to American adolescents, arguing that we need to expand, enrich, and diversify the learning opportunities available to young people today.
Central to the book is Robert Halpern’s view that we depend too exclusively on schools to meet the full range of young people’s developmental needs. “High school learning as typically structured is just too fragmented, isolated, and abstract to meet young people’s developmental needs,” he argues. “It relies too much on century-old curriculum and pedagogy, and is too oriented, in an unreflective way, toward preparing young ... Read more
Youth, Education, and the Role of Society examines the “learning landscape” currently available to American adolescents, arguing that we need to expand, enrich, and diversify the learning opportunities available to young people today.
Central to the book is Robert Halpern’s view that we depend too exclusively on schools to meet the full range of young people’s developmental needs. “High school learning as typically structured is just too fragmented, isolated, and abstract to meet young people’s developmental needs,” he argues. “It relies too much on century-old curriculum and pedagogy, and is too oriented, in an unreflective way, toward preparing young ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781612505374
SKU
V9781612505374
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Ref
99-3
About Robert Halpern
Robert Halpern is director of the doctoral program and chair of the research council at the Erikson Institute in Chicago, USA.
Reviews for Youth, Education, and the Role of Society: Rethinking Learning in the High School Years
This highlights the role of extended society in providing a range of learning settings for young people, and offers insights into the messy, haphazard and often highly fruitful development of education beyond a strictly school-based setting...it is sensitively written." - Sandra Leaton Gray, Times Higher Education Textbook Guide, 7th November 2013