Developmental Dynamics and Transitions in High School

This book is about young people and their transitions throughout their first year of high school, deepening our understanding of how it is to be young and enter new institutional settings, and how to understand the developmental dynamics of youth life. It explores the everyday life of six young people as they enter high school and follows them closely as they encounter and try to make sense of the different standards, values, and demands that are built into the institutional setting of high school.


The chapters explore the entanglements of personal motive orientation, interpersonal dynamics, institutional values and demands, as well as societal standards, and how subtle negotiations of who one is and ought to be are interwoven into the fabrics of everyday life. Hence the book explores variations on an institutional level - as different high school environments - along with variations on an interpersonal level, insisting on a person-environment reciprocity in the study of development.

Using cultural-historical activity theory and ecological psychology derived from theorists including Bang, Barker & Wright, Gibson, Lewin, Hedegaard, Ilyenkov, Stetsenko, and Vygotsky, Sofie Pedersen argues that developmental dynamics among young people cannot be reduced to individual nor social processes alone but are connected to institutional conditions and to concrete places. By insisting on a wholeness approach to the understanding of youth development, Pedersen reveals the developmental dynamics that unfold in the everyday lives of young people, and sheds new light on youth life dynamics, including the challenges that young people face.

Sommario

Series Editor's Introduction
Introduction
1. Setting the Scene: Invitations and Expectations
2. Becoming High School Students: Entering New Activity Settings, Case Study 1: Anna, Mia and Lisa
3. Becoming High School Students: Entering New Activity Settings Case Study 2: Emily and Matilda
4. Eco-niche Variability: The Meaning of Where Youth Life is Lived
5. Standardizing the Body: A Social Negotiation of the Meaning of Health
6. Exploring Subjective Processes of Transformation: "Maybe I have changed; I didn't notice it"
7. Negotiating Self Within a Multitude of Invitations and Possibilities
8. Interweaving Analytical Threads
Conclusion
References
Index

Info autore

Sofie Pedersen is Associate Professor of Psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Riassunto

This book is about young people and their transitions throughout their first year of high school, deepening our understanding of how it is to be young and enter new institutional settings, and how to understand the developmental dynamics of youth life. It explores the everyday life of six young people as they enter high school and follows them closely as they encounter and try to make sense of the different standards, values, and demands that are built into the institutional setting of high school.


The chapters explore the entanglements of personal motive orientation, interpersonal dynamics, institutional values and demands, as well as societal standards, and how subtle negotiations of who one is and ought to be are interwoven into the fabrics of everyday life. Hence the book explores variations on an institutional level – as different high school environments – along with variations on an interpersonal level, insisting on a person-environment reciprocity in the study of development.

Using cultural-historical activity theory and ecological psychology derived from theorists including Bang, Barker & Wright, Gibson, Lewin, Hedegaard, Ilyenkov, Stetsenko, and Vygotsky, Sofie Pedersen argues that developmental dynamics among young people cannot be reduced to individual nor social processes alone but are connected to institutional conditions and to concrete places. By insisting on a wholeness approach to the understanding of youth development, Pedersen reveals the developmental dynamics that unfold in the everyday lives of young people, and sheds new light on youth life dynamics, including the challenges that young people face.

Prefazione

Explores the everyday life and transitions of six young people as they enter and progress through the first year of high school.

Testo aggiuntivo

Sofie Pedersen daringly unsettles psychological research on youth development and transition, giving a fascinating account of the developmental dynamics of youth, based on her superb ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark. Her unwavering quest for theoretical rigour is impressive and deserves accolade. The book is vitally important in advancing sociocultural theory-led research on development and transitions. It will give researchers and practitioners involving youth valuable conceptual tools to understand the complexity of the person-environmental reciprocity and help young people fulfil their potential.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sofie Pedersen, Sofie (Roskilde University Pedersen
• Con la collaborazione di: Marilyn Fleer (Editore), Mariane Hedegaard (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.03.2022
• EAN: 9781350141728
• ISBN: 978-1-350-14172-8
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Transitions in Childhood and Y; Transitions in Childhood and Youth
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione; EDUCATION / General, Education, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy