Adolescent Development in Social Contexts – Notes for Sep. 30, 2013

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MSEd 404: Adolescent Development in Social Context; Fall 2013, Northwestern University

“Adolescence: The View from Here”

  • Emerging adulthood is the in-between of adolescence and adulthood; it takes the role of what adolescence was to childhood and adulthood
  • It is vitally important for teachers of adolescents to feel like adults
  • “Being adult” – the checklist – does not matter for teaching
  • Feeling and being seen as an adult is important; people who don’t fall under these categories have more trouble with their classes
  • In mentoring, you cannot help someone develop past where you have already developed
  • Development is socially and culturally mediated
  • Adolescents need adults who have something to share with them other than their curriculum
  • Norms exist everywhere and are what actually happen
  • Assignment: what would be an ideal class? What norms (from the list) would make this class possible; which are the most important ones?
  • Spacks talks about two myths: youth is the period of liveliness, and adolescents rae dangerous because they are still ruled by passion instead of reason

 

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