Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century - Challenges Facing Europe and the United States

Klappentext This book addresses how countries can produce well-educated, healthy, and productive youth. Zusammenfassung In Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States! experts address the question of how countries can produce well-educated! healthy! and productive youth. They describe the theory! design! and implementation of innovative comprehensive education and health approaches. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Meeting the essential requirements David A. Hamburg; 2. Adapting educational systems Anthony W. Jackson; 3. Impact of school reform Robert Felner, Anthony Jackson Deborah Kasak, Peter Mulhall, Stephen Brand and Nancy Flowers; 4. Schooling for the middle years Donald Hirsch; 5. Role of the school in health promotion Klaus Hurrelmann and Andreas Klocke; 6. Education for healthy futures Beatrix A. Hamburg; 7. HUMBIO: Stanford University H. Craig Heller and Mary L. Kiely; 8. Education for living Eugeen Roosens; 9. Economics of education and training Henri Nadel; 10. School-to-work processes in the US Ray Marshall; 11. Finding common ground Ruby Takanishi.

Product details

• Authors: Ruby Takanishi, Ruby (Foundation for Child Development) Takanishi, Ruby Hamburg Takanishi
• Assisted by: David A. Hamburg (Editor), Ruby Takanishi (Editor), Ruby (Foundation for Child Development) Takanishi (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.1997
• EAN: 9780521570657
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57065-7
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Jacobs Foundation Series on Ad; The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works