Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States (The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence)

267 Pages·1997·8.14 MB·English

by  Ruby Takanishi

Preparing adolescents for the twenty-first century

Preparing adolescents
for the twenty-first
century
Challenges facing Europe and the
United States
Edited by
Ruby Takanishi
Foundation for Child Development
David A. Hamburg
Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Preparing adolescents for the twenty-first century : challenges facing
Europe and the United States / edited by Ruby Takanishi, David A.
Hamburg.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-521-57065-4 (hardcover)
1. Adolescence - Congresses. 2. Teenagers - Education - Congresses.
3. Teenagers - Health and hygiene - Congresses. 4. Health promotion -
Congresses. 5. life skills - Congresses. 6. School-to-work
transition - Congresses. 7. Cross-cultural studies - Congresses.
I. Takanishi, Ruby. II. Hamburg, David A., 1925- .
LB1135.P74 1997
305.23'5 - dc20 96-26087
CIP
A catalog record for this book is available
from the British Library.
ISBN 0 521 57065 4 hardback
For Laszlo Nagy
Who cares deeply about the future of the world's youth

Contents
Contributors page ix
Foreword xi
KLAUS J. JACOBS
Preface xiii
1 Meeting the essential requirements for healthy 1
adolescent development in a transforming world
DAVID A. HAMBURG
2 Adapting educational systems to young adolescents 13
and new conditions
ANTHONY W. JACKSON
3 The impact of school reform for the middle grades: A 38
longitudinal study of a network engaged in Turning
Poinrs-based comprehensive school transformation
ROBERT FELNER, ANTHONY W. JACKSON,
DEBORAH KASAK, PETER MULHALL,
STEPHEN BRAND, AND NANCY FLOWERS
4 Schooling for the middle years: Developments 70
in Europe
DONALD HIRSCH
5 The role of the school in comprehensive 82
health promotion
KLAUS HURRELMANN AND ANDREAS KLOCKE
6 Education for healthy futures: Health promotion and 108
life skills training
BEATRIX A. HAMBURG
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viii Contents
7 HUMBIO: Stanford University's human biology 136
curriculum for the middle grades
H. CRAIG HELLER AND MARY L. KIELY
8 Education for living in pluriethnic societies 151
EUGEEN ROOSENS
9 The economics of education and training in the face of 177
changing production and employment structures
HENRI NADEL
Translated by MIRIAM ROSEN
10 School-to-work processes in the United States 195
RAY MARSHALL
11 Finding common ground: Implications for policies in 227
Europe and the United States
RUBY TAKANISHI
Name index 239
Subject index 244
Contributors
Stephen Brand, Center for Prevention Research and Development,
Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois,
Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
Robert Felner, Center for Prevention Research and Development,
Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois,
Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
Nancy Flowers, Center for Prevention Research and Development,
Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois,
Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
Beatrix A. Hamburg, The William T. Grant Foundation, New York,
NY, U.S.A.
David A. Hamburg, Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York,
NY, U.S.A.
H. Craig Heller, Program in Human Biology, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
Donald Hirsch, International Consultant, London, United Kingdom
Klaus Hurrelmann, Research Center for Prevention and Intervention in
Childhood and Adolescence, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld,
Germany
Anthony W. Jackson, Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York,
NY, U.S.A.
Deborah Kasak, Center for Prevention Research and Development,
Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois,
Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
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