Ebook: Educating Adolescents Around the Globe: Becoming Who You Are in a World Full of Expectations
Author: Meike Watzlawik Alina Burkholder
- Tags: Education, Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education
- Series: Cultural Psychology of Education 11
- Year: 2020
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Language: English
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By traveling to different parts of the world, this book provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the current state of adolescent education and demonstrates how education systems are formed by and closely tied to culture. After establishing a theoretical background, the book delves into the particulars of adolescent education and its associated challenges in six countries (India, Kenya, Germany, Brazil, Japan, and Denmark). In tandem with the discussion of institutions, the stories of those who are all too often underserved or left behind are told. Despite the diversity of each education system, the investigation reveals several unifying themes that transcend the specific contexts. The lessons from each example are woven together to demonstrate how the individualized needs of students can best be met, in a vision for the future of educating adolescents."