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Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education

Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education

Crosnoe, Robert

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 0521182034
ISBN13: 9780521182034
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Mar 7 2011
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 policymakers about how to protect teenagers in trouble. The end result is a story of adolescence that hits home with anyone who remembers high school.

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