Series：Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society  Vol. 45

本书阐述了美国文化和教育中，围绕着青春期学生的复杂性、矛盾和混乱，汇集了众多名家的著作。长久以来，公众舆论一直将社会顽疾归咎于这些青春期的孩子们。诸如此类的不公平，可以说贯穿美国史今。本书为大家展示了一味谴责受害者的公众舆论，并对当今青少年所面临的微妙、现实的成长道路和社会文化现实进行了全面研究。而且还为让青少年成才提供了丰富的教育学策略和教育智慧。这本重要的图书对于职前教师、师范教育、教育及社会服务的专业人士、决策者以及所有致力于改善青少年生存状态的人们来说，可谓及时雨。

【评论】
«Adolescent Education: A Reader, a stimulating collection of carefully selected essays, provides a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding todays adolescents. The authors, leading scholars as well as practitioners, confront stereotypes of teenagers and reframe the way we think about adolescents and adolescence. The contributors offer hopeful visions for respectful, nurturing, and effective schools where youth are challenged to learn and to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially. A must-read for all educators.» (Kathleen deMarrais, Professor, University of Georgia)

【作者介绍】
Joseph L. DeVitis is Professor of Foundations of Education at Georgia College & State University. He is a past president of the American Educational Studies Association, the Council of Learned Societies in Education, and the Society of Professors of Education. Recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he is a widely published scholar and public intellectual in social foundations of education and educational policy studies.
Linda Irwin-DeVitis is Dean and Professor of Literacy at the John H. Lounsbury College of Education, Georgia College & State University. She has extensive teaching experience in New Orleans and Jacksonville area middle and high schools and in a literacy program in the Mississippi Delta. Her numerous publications are in the areas of literacy education, adolescent literacy, and teacher education.