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Title:

International perspectives on adolescence / editored by Frank Pajares and Tim Urdan.

Publisher:

Information Age Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

389 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Adolescence--Cross-cultural studies.
Teenagers--Education--Cross-cultural studies.
Education, Secondary--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
Adolescenten.
Voortgezet onderwijs.
Interculturele vergelijking.
Adolescence--Études transculturelles.
Adolescents--Éducation--Études transculturelles.
Enseignement secondaire--Aspect social--Études transculturelles.
Heranwachsender.
Erziehung.
Internationaler Vergleich.
Aufsatzsammlung.

Other Authors:

Pajares, Frank.
Urdan, Timothy C.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The education of persons in multicultural Canada / Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, and Sarah Hickinbottom -- Educating adolescents in Australia : motivation and the middle school years / Dennis M. McInerney, Katrina Simpson, and Martin Dowson -- Cognitive style and school performance in adolescents : a UK perspective / Richard J. Riding -- The long transition to adulthood : an Italian view / Gian Vittorio Caprara, Eugenia Scabini, and Giovanni B. Sgritta -- Adolescence in Dutch culture : a self-regulation perspective / Monique Boekaerts -- Tools for life-long learning : the growing emphasis on learning-to-learn competencies and ICT in adolescent education in Finland / Markku Niemivirta and Sanna Jrvel -- Dialectic contradictions in the experiences of Israeli Jewish adolescents : efficacy and stress, closeness and friction, and conformity and noncompliance / Ofra Mayseless and Gavriel Salomon -- Adolescents' self-image in Lebanon : implications for education / Huda Ayyash-Abdo -- Career education and development of adolescents in Argentina / Edgardo R. Prez and Maria C. Osuna -- Adolescence and education : contemporary trends in Brazilian research / Jos A. Bzuneck and Evely Boruchovitch -- High school education in Peru : perspectives from the Third World / Juana Pinzas -- Youth identity and education in post-apartheid South Africa / Crain Soudien and Joy Alexander -- Adolescent education in Hong Kong and mainland China : effects of culture and context of learning on Chinese adolescents / Farideh Salili, Hui Zhou, and Rumjahn Hoosain -- Characteristics and problems for the development of adolescents in Taiwan / Der-Hsiang Huang -- Choices, evaluations, and opportunities for success : academic motivation of Korean adolescents / Mimi Bong -- Education of adolescents in India : context and constraints / T.S. Saraswathi, Nandini Manjrekar, and Prarthana Pant.

Series:

Adolescence and education ; 3rd v.

ISBN:

9781593110666 (pbk.)
1593110669 (pbk.)
9781593110673 (hardcover)
1593110677 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52706595

LCCN:

2003016125

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)