Educating Adolescents Around the Globe

Becoming Who You Are in a World Full of Expectations

Meike Watzlawik, Alina Burkholder (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XIV, 326 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-37902-5 (ISBN)

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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."

lt;p>Alina Burkholder has worked in international contexts throughout her career, including several roles in international education. Alina earned her B.S. in psychology from the University of Braunschweig and her M.S. in cross-cultural psychology from Osnabrück University, both in Germany. Additionally, she has conducted research at universities in New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and Japan. Through the course of her work and studies, she has consistently sought experiences to apply her theoretical knowledge of cross-cultural psychology to advance intercultural engagement, understanding, and learning. Currently, she is a Public Diplomacy Officer at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, D.C."

Dr. Meike Watzlawik is professor for developmental, cultural, and educational psychology at the Sigmund Freud University Berlin (SFU). While studying psychology at the University of Braunschweig, she was already working as a volunteer at a youth counseling center supporting adolescents and young adults (12 to 26 years of age) who were being faced with developmental challenges (e.g., low self-esteem or problems with parents and peers). In her studies on the psychology of adolescence, she examined sexual identity development (Ph.D.), sibling relationships (Habilitation) as well as identity development in general (diverse projects in several countries). Prior to her current position at SFU Berlin, she was the CEO of a private career-counseling center where she helped adolescents and young adults find the right educational or occupational path- always stressing that, despite all universalities, sight of the individual must never be lost.

Part A: Adolescence from a Theoretical Perspective.- Ch.1 Adolescence - A Cultural-Sociological Perspective.- Ch.2 Adolescents Instead of Adolescence: Beyond Phases and Developmental Tasks.- Part B: A Journey to different Countries around the World.- Ch.3 Educating Adolescents in India: Challenges and A Proposed Roadmap.- Ch.4 India's Demographic Dividend: Addressing the Challenge of Poverty in Educating Adolescents.- Ch.5 Building Blocks and Barriers to Educational Attainment and Learning in Kenyan Schools: Preserving or Changing Cultural Identity Markers.- Ch.6 Education for Street-Connected Children in Kenya: Marginalization, Challenges, and Recommendations.- Ch.7 Is It Fair? The German Education System and Its Stumbling Blocks for Adolescents.- Ch.8 Dead End Schools? Refugee Teenagers and School Segregation in Germany.- Ch.9 The Brazilian Education System: The Challenges of Inequality.- Ch.10Teaching Young Offenders in Brazil.- Ch.11 Japanese Schools and (Necessary) Educational Reforms: Challenges and Opportunities for Adolescents.- Ch.12 The Dialogical Construction of School Connectedness for Delinquent Youth.- Ch.13 Generation Calm - When Education Turns Inward.- Ch.14 Contextualised Understanding of and Transdisciplinary Approaches to School Dropout.- Part C: Learning and Intervention.- Ch.15: What Is There to Be Learned and How? Learning Through the Lens of the Self.- Ch.16 School as Intervention: A Multilayered and Culturally Embedded Concept.- Ch.17 My delinquent voice: Screaming, but so what?.- Ch.18 A Tour of Adolescent Education around the World: Lessons Learned and A Vision for the Future.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Cultural Psychology of Education
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 326 p. 36 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	534 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
Schlagworte	Adolescent Development • Adolescent education Brazil • Adolescent education Denmark • Adolescent education Germany • Adolescent education India • Adolescent education Japan • Adolescent education Kenya • Adolescents in educational institutions • Cultural psychology of education • Intervention in adolescence education • Schooling in different countries: aims and challenges • The cultural practice of educating adolescents
ISBN-10	3-030-37902-7 / 3030379027
ISBN-13	978-3-030-37902-5 / 9783030379025
Zustand	Neuware