Adolescent Life And Ethos

Author : Heewon Chang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000813762
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adolescent Life and Ethos written by Heewon Chang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992, this Asian-authored book presents a cultural description and interpretation of American high school adolescent life and ethos, based on anthropological fieldwork in a semi-rural school and its surrounding community in Oregon. It combines a realistic account of late 1980s adolescent culture and a confessional tale of the Asian ethnographer’s fieldwork experiences among American youngsters. The three main parts of the book focus on a portrayal of adolescent daily life, an interpretation of these young people’s cultural values and ideals, and a reflection on the ethnographer’s fieldwork experiences respectively. Part 1, Adolescent Life, includes five chapters presenting a brief version of a key informant life history, a profile of the school, a portrait of the community, a sketch of a typical school day, and adolescent life out of school. Divided into four chapters, Part 2, Adolescent Ethos, identifies three dimensions of adolescent ethos and analyzes dynamics between the dimensions and reflecting ideals. The last chapter of this part, ‘The Duality of Ideals’ discusses how adolescents negotiated themselves in a complicated web of various ideals pressing on them. Part 3, Doing Ethnography, reports procedural and personal aspects of doing ethnographic research in two separate chapters. The former discusses each step from locating a field to writing an ethnography; the latter describes personal feelings and scholarly thoughts which occurred during and after fieldwork. Adopting the most inconspicuous, unobtrusive form of research methods (she even dressed like them and acted with and among them), the ethnographer tried to listen to the young people’s voices, peek into their lives from outside, and look out at the world through their eyes.

Author : Kathleen Waldron Gershman
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761829317
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Always Test Us on Things We Haven't Read written by Kathleen Waldron Gershman and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eminently readable book, poignant and humorous, quickly draws the reader into the scholastic world of high school students. Based on classroom observation and over 100 interviews, this study is a fascinating look at the challenges in getting middle-class adolescents to engage with their high school education. They Always Test Us On Things We Haven't Read offers a refreshing perspective on the mainstream American high school experience. It sends a powerful message to those interested in making curriculum more interesting and engaging. The book will appeal largely to teachers, but the clarity and depth of the text also make it valuable for anyone interested in school reform.

Author : Danah Boyd
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300166311
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's Complicated written by Danah Boyd and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.

Author : Denise Clark Pope
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300130589
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing School written by Denise Clark Pope and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a highly revealing and troubling view of today's high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Denise Pope, veteran teacher and curriculum expert, follows five motivated and successful students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them in lengthy reflections on their school experiences. What emerges is a double-sided picture of school success. On the one hand, these students work hard in school, participate in extracurricular activities, serve their communities, earn awards and honours, and appear to uphold school values. But on the other hand, they feel that in order to get ahead they must compromise their values and manipulate the system by scheming, lying, and cheating. In short, they do school, that is, they are not really engaged with learning nor can they commit to such values as integrity and community. The words and actions of these five students - two boys and three girls from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds - underscore the frustrations of being caught in a grade trap that pins future success to high grades and test scores. Their stories raise critical questions that are too important for parents, educators, and community leaders to ignore. Are schools cultivating an environment that promotes intellectual curiosity, cooperation, and integrity? Or are they fostering anxiety, deception, and hostility? Do today's schools inadvertently impede the very values they claim to embrace? Is the success that current assessment practices measure the kind of success we want for our children?

Author : Heewon Chang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315433362
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autoethnography as Method written by Heewon Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This methods book guides you through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. It offers a series of hands-on steps for data collection, analysis, and interpretation with self-reflective writing exercises that will enable you to produce an autoethnographic work. Chang offers a variety of techniques for gathering data on the self--from diaries to culture grams to interviews--and shows how to transform this information into a study that is narratively sound, introspective, and sensitive to cultural diversity and identity. --From publisher's description.

Author : Pamela Maykut
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135720746
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginning Qualitative Research written by Pamela Maykut and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best-selling text written for the beginning qualitative researcher - theoretically rigorous, yet with an understandable perspective.

Author : Amira Proweller
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791437711
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Female Identities written by Amira Proweller and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful, and often surprising, look at adolescent girls' socialization in a historically elite, private, single-sex high school.

Author : David F. Lancy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107072662
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Childhood written by David F. Lancy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enriched with anecdotes from ethnography and the daily media, this revised edition examines family structure, reproduction, profiles of children's caretakers, their treatment at different ages, their play, work, schooling, and transition to adulthood. The result is a nuanced and credible picture of childhood in different cultures, past and present.

Author : Jennifer Young
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498556000
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance written by Jennifer Young and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance: Student Bodies in the American High School investigates the rhetorical tension between controlling student bodies and educating student minds. The book is a rhetorical analysis of the policies and procedures that govern life in contemporary American high schools; it also discusses the rhetorical effects of high-security, high-surveillance school buildings. It uncovers various metaphors that emerge from a close reading of the system, such as students’ claims that “school is a prison.” Jennifer Young concludes that many of the policies governing contemporary American high schools have come to rhetorically operate as a “discourse of default” that works against the highest aims of education, and she offers a method of effecting a cultural shift for going forward. Specifically, Young calls for an explicit application of intentional rhetoric to match discourse to audience and suggests that the development of empathy as a core value within the high school might be more effective in keeping students safe than the architectural and technological approaches we currently employ.

Author : Julia Storberg-Walker
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681236842
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Women & Leadership written by Julia Storberg-Walker and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theorizing Women and Leadership: New Insights and Contributions from Multiple Perspectives is the fifth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This cross?disciplinary series, from the International Leadership Association, enhances leadership knowledge and improves leadership development of women around the world. The purpose of this volume is to provide a forum for women to theorize about women’s leadership in multiple ways and in multiple contexts. Theorizing has been a viewed as a gendered activity (Swedberg, 2014), and this series of chapters seeks to upend that imbalance. The chapters are written by women who represent multiple disciplines, cultures, races, and subject positions. The diversity extends into research paradigm and method, and the chapters combine to illuminate the multiple ways of knowing about and being a woman leader. Twenty?first century leadership scholars acknowledge the importance of context, and many are considering post?heroic leadership models based on relationships rather than traits. This volume contributes to this discussion by offering a diverse array of perspectives and ways of knowing about leadership and leading. The purpose of the volume is to provide readers with not only interesting new ideas about women and leadership, but also to highlight the diverse epistemologies that can contribute to theorizing about women leaders. Some chapters represent typical social scientific practices and processes, while others represent newer knowledge forms and ways of knowing. The volume contributors adopt various epistemological positions, ranging from objective researcher to embedded co?participant. The chapters link their new findings to existing empirical or conceptual work and illustrate how the findings extend, amend, contradict, or confirm existing research. The diversity of the chapters is one of the volume’s strengths because it illuminates the multiple ways that leadership theory for women can be advanced. Typically, research based on a realist perspective is more valued in the academy. This perspective has indeed generated robust information about leadership in general and women’s leadership in particular. However, readers of this volume are offered an opportunity to explore multiple ways of knowing, different ways of researching, and are invited to de?center researcher objectivity. The authors of the chapters offer conceptual and empirical findings, illuminate multiple and alternative research practices, and in the end suggest future directions for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed?methods research.