The Young Adolescent and the Middle School

Steven B. Mertens, Vincent A. Anfara, Micki M. Caskey, Steven B. Mertens, Vincent A. Anfara, Micki M. Caskey

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9781593116620
  9781593116637
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607527275
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Research in Education

(Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research SIG and the National Middle School Association)

The Young Adolescent and the Middle School focuses on issues related to the nature of young adolescence and the intersection of young adolescence with middle level schooling.

This volume of the Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education marks the sixth installment in the series. The Handbook series, begun in 2001 by Vince Anfara, the series editor, has addressed varying thematic issues important to middle level education research. This volume, The Young Adolescent and the Middle School, focuses on the unique developmental needs of young adolescents and the role of the middle school in attending to these needs. The contributing authors in this volume address one of three developmental areas critical to young adolescents—physical development, intellectual/cognitive development, or social and personal development—and how these developmental characteristics affect the educational environment and the organization of middle schools.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Young Adolescent and the Middle School
• Series Page
• The Young Adolescent and the Middle School
• Copyright Page
• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1: HEALTH PROMOTING,HIGH PERFORMINGMIDDLE LEVEL SCHOOLS
• 2: “PUT ME IN, COACH”
• 3: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
• 4: LANGUAGE FACTORS INLITERACY ACHIEVEMENT OFYOUNG ADOLESCENTS
• 5: STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OFCURRICULUM INTEGRATIONAND COMMUNITY
• 6: GIFTED LEARNERS IN THEMIDDLE GRADES
• 7: SOCRATIC SEMINAR ANDYOUNG ADOLESCENTMOTIVATION
• 8: THE INTERFACE OFSCHOOL AND FAMILY INMEETING THE BELONGINGNEEDS OF YOUNGADOLESCENTS
• 9: THE UNIQUE NATURE OFMIDDLE SCHOOLCOUNSELING
• 10: ALIGNING STUDENT SELF ANDIDENTITY CONCERNS WITHMIDDLE SCHOOL PRACTICES
• 11: RECOGNIZING ANDRESPONDING TO YOUNGADOLESCENTS’ ETHNICIDENTITY DEVELOPMENT
• 12: A GLIMPSE INTO THESCHOOL LIVES OF YOUNGADOLESCENT IMMIGRANTAND REFUGEE STUDENTS
• 13: CONSIDERING SINGLE-SEXACADEMIC CLASSES FORYOUNG ADOLESCENTS
• 14: EXAMINING THE TRANSITIONFROM MIDDLE SCHOOL TOHIGH SCHOOL
• 15: SUICIDE, SCHOOLS, AND THEYOUNG ADOLESCENT
• 16: MIDDLE SCHOOLTEACHER QUALITIES
• 17: A SCHOOL-WIDE APPROACHTO PROMOTING YOUNGADOLESCENT SOCIAL ANDBEHAVIORAL SUCCESS INMIDDLE SCHOOL
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS