According to the study conducted by Gallup Organization, only a minority of Americans experience consistent normative motivation for engaging with other people's children. Social norms theory suggests that adults are more likely to get deeply involved if that involvement is viewed as highly important, and if they perceive a social expectation to do so. This volume examines the nature of social norms in general and in relationship to children and adolescents. The book examines the complex dynamics of understanding the appropriate roles of parents and other adults in young people's healthy development. The volume also presents the study's findings in detail, including numerous areas of consensus among American adults, differences among American adults, and the gap between perceived importance and actual engagement. A wide-ranging literature synthesis suggests implications for both personal and collective actions with potential to change norms that inhibit engagement and to strengthen values that encourage engagement.

Other People's Kids: Social Expectations and American Adults? Involvement with Children and Adolescents (The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society, 2)

Scales, Peter C.

Teen & Young Adult

Springer

The old "junior high" many Americans remember is fast becoming a relic of the past. Schools organized as grades seven to nine have rapidly dropped in number over the past 25 years as schools organized as grades 6 to 8 have become the places where most young adolescents ages 10 to 15 go to school. More and more middle schools are trying to provide environments, curricula, and instruction that fit well with young adolescents' developmental characteristics. And yet, despite progress, too many adolescents feel boxed in and bored in their middle schools. This book explores new and different ideas for teaching and reaching young middle schoolers.

Boxed in and bored: How middle schools continue to fail young adolescents--and what good middle schools do right

Search Institute

This book is a discussion of the complex events which surround the breakup of the Muslim Caliphate of Córdoba in the early eleventh century. The focus of the study concerns quite a short period of time: 1009-1031 A.D., although a wide-ranging investigation of the political structure of Muslim Spain is embarked on. A thorough narrative of the events is followed by separate discussions of some of the main groups involved in the civil wars, the Marwānids (the supporters of a legitimately-appointed Umayyad representative), the saqāliba (Slavs), the Berbers and the Christians of northern Spain. This book is able to fill the gap in our knowledge of this hitherto little-understood period of Spanish history and tackles important questions, such as the attitude towards the Berbers, tribal solidarity and the importance of land-reforms during the 10th century

The Fall of the Caliphate of Cordoba: Berbers and Andalusis in Conflict (Medieval Iberian Peninsula, Vol 9)

History

Europe

Brill Academic Pub

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