Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents

ISBN-13: 9780805846669 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 226 str.

Annette B. Hemmings;Hemmings

Opis

This title takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a close-up look at how they navigate the conflicting discourses and disciplinary practices of American cultural crosscurrents that flow through economic, kinship, religious, and political domains of American life.

Recenzje

"In this carefully nuanced and richly textured qualitative study, Hemmings follows the voices of a diverse array of high school students as they navigate their way through the crosscurrents of economics, politics, religion, and family life in contemporary America....Highly recommended."
—CHOICE

"There are altogether too few texts on the market that provide the detailed, reasoned account of American adolescence and schooling that Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools offers. This book attends to adolescence, it complicates popular but oversimplified notions about adolescents, and it documents how schools impact both individuals' and societal development."
—Reba Page
University of California at Riverside

"After reading this book...I am left with an increased appreciation of the nuanced ways that individuals construct meanings and futures within the variety of discourses that help shape kids in twenty-first century America."
—Pamela J. Bettis
Washington State University

"The knowledge that emerges from different school/life contexts among a diverse group of adolescents is very rich."
—Sandra Winn Tutwiler
Washburn University

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. New Age for Coming of Age. Surface Depths. Economic Domain: Il/licit Pursuit of Mobility. Kinship Domain: Family (Dis)connections. Religious Domain: Freedom of/From Religion. Political Domain: Democracy and Domination. Reaching Shore. Appendix.

O autorze

Annette B. Hemmings