Adolescent Portraits is a compelling anthology of first-person accounts written by college students, which illustrate the contemporary theories and research that surround adolescent development today. These real-life cases represent a fascinating, diverse cross-section of contemporary adolescence and cover a variety of issues, including family and peer relationships, eating disorders, self image, illness, and disabilities.

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Essays exploring the full experience of being black in America offer a raw, painful, always honest assessment of the search for cultural identity undertaken by many people of color in the U.S. (view table of contents)

Relates the Dartmouth graduates' struggle to reconcile their college experiences with their ethnic heritage (view table of contents)

Understanding democracy, learning to be democratic and to value democracy are critical competencies to be developed by all Americans. In the present debate about what knowledge is of most worth in the public school, these civic competencies are seen as second in importance only to the development of critical thinking. They are typically, however, honored more in commencement rhetoric than in school programs or practices; their actualization falls far short of their ascribed importance. The authors argue that critical opportunities for democratic development occur in the day-to-day life of the schools. It follows that all grade levels should participate in the creation of the constitution of the school and classrooms, the justice structure of the school (its disciplinary code, norms, and adjudication), the policy-making of the school, and in the understanding of the school as a social laboratory. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of such a program by reporting some two decades of applied research on democratic schools which have realized some of these outcomes. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Contemporary Canadian writers explore, with different techniques and from various points of view, the questions, challenges and relationships that characterize mode adolescence. Intended for lovers of good literature, for those who are parenting or working with adolescents and especially for teenagers themselves, these stories will stir the imagination, inspire reflection and self-discovery, and lead to a deeper knowledge of the human heart...read more