The Promise and Peril of Coming of Age in the 21st Century
نویسنده
چکیده
The second decade of life is a transition that poses unique developmental challenges for adolescents, and also for their families and teachers, and how well adolescents negotiate this transition will have important implications for later outcomes across the life course. Coming of age, acquiring the status and trappings of adulthood, unfolds over many years, easily a decade or longer, and so we have the problem in 21st century America of what to do with biologically mature young people whose cognitive, psychological and social competence has not fully arrived to take up the challenges of modern life. The transition to early adolescence has special significance (Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, 1995). The ages 10 to 14, or roughly the period that spans the middle school years, is a crucial juncture for setting youngsters on pathways that lead to productive integration within the adult role structure of society. But it does not always turn out that way for a distressing number of youngsters, for early adolescence is also a time when developmental casualties are most likely to pile up and it is a pressing challenge for educators and families to figure out ways to mobilize the resources of students and schools so that the middle school years are an opportunity to “meet and match the moment of hope”—to borrow Winnicott’s (1962, p. 309) beautiful expression—where the aspirations of youngsters are matched with educational experiences that meet their developmental needs and put them on the trajectory to responsible adulthood (Eccles, 2004; Eccles & Roeser, 2013). But the trajectory to responsible adulthood will face a second developmental challenge as adolescents face the third decade of life. The culturally standard script marking the transition to adulthood has been shredded so that traditional signs of adulthood are no longer clear guideposts for the achievement of adult status. Turning 18, for example, or making certain role transitions, such as getting married or finishing one’s education, do not reliably indicate that adult status has been reached. Rather, adulthood is thought a matter of accepting Au: year of publication in refs indicates 1992. Please clarify
منابع مشابه
Element of learning in 21st century from the Students' view points, in summer school of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Introduction: The aim of education process is learning and change in behavior which has been revolutionized in the 21st century due to the rapid changens in technology and sciences. The traditional approach to education does no longer meet the learners' needs, entailing new changes in educational curricula. This study was designed to determine the factors influencing learning in the 21st centur...
متن کاملCritique of Novel/ San’atizadeh in the 21st Century: A Review of the Novel Rostam in the 22nd Century, Mohammad Mehdi Moghimizadeh
This article is a study of Rostam in the 22nd Century (written in 1313 Persian calendar), a novel by Abdolhossein San’atizadeh. For this purpose, a brief introduction to San’atizadeh and his work and a summary of the story are provided. This paper then attempts to describe the sci-fi genre and its important components. Afterward, these components are presented in San’atizadeh’s novel and its ce...
متن کامل16th century Persian tiles in dialogue with 21st century digital tiles in the Sadrian universe
This article brings together tiles of 16th century Persian architecture and 21st century digital tiles of moving image to explore new potentials beyond the perceived image. As minimal parts of a bigger image, they both appear still and motionless. However, Persian Islamic philosopher, Mulla Sadrā Shirazi’s (1571-1640) theory of ‘substantial motion’ (al-harakat a...
متن کاملManagement Accounting Education for the 21st Century Firms
Management accounting has become a subject of hot debates over the last four decades and has undergone a major transformation. It is argued that traditional management accounting roles have either disappeared or been changed. The debate is based on the belief that roles of ‘Management Accountants’ require new forms of education and training, with more emphasis on the practicality of the subjec...
متن کاملMedical Education in 21st-century
Medical education play an important role in health of people in 20st-century, but this system has to change overtime. Medical education must respond to not only the demand of community at larg but also to changing in new technologies. Medical education have been criticized in last two decades of 20st-century, because of producing too many specialists focus on treatment instead of health, insuf...
متن کامل