Joining Society: Social Interaction and Learning in Adolescence and Youth (The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 13
Foreword......Page 15
Preface......Page 17
REFERENCES......Page 19
I INTRODUCTION......Page 21
1 Thinking Spaces of the Young......Page 23
Interrelated Levels of Analysis......Page 25
The Social, Cultural, and Historical Embeddedness of the Development of Young People’s Life Skills......Page 27
Learning, Meaning Making, and Generativity......Page 28
REFERENCES......Page 29
2 Prospects for Youth in Postindustrial Societies......Page 31
What Do Youth Want? Lessons from Youth-Led Organizations......Page 35
Productivity and Work as Elements of Youth Socialization......Page 36
Communities of Practice and the Dilemma of Training......Page 37
Communities of Practice for Youth and Adults......Page 39
REFERENCES......Page 44
3 Overview of the Volume......Page 46
Part II: Youth-Constructed Socialization......Page 47
Part III: Personal Agency Through Collective Activity......Page 49
Part IV: Learning in Practice and Discourse......Page 51
Part V: Intergenerational Sites for Thinking......Page 53
Part VI: Pathways to Adulthood in National Context......Page 55
II YOUTH-CONSTRUCTED SOCIALIZATION......Page 59
Institutional Voids......Page 61
Youth-Based Organization......Page 66
What Is Happening?......Page 67
How Is It Happening?......Page 68
How Do These Groups Change?......Page 71
Language Development......Page 73
Building Relations......Page 76
Offering Evidence and Building Substantive Content......Page 77
Cognitive Strategy Building Through Risk-Taking and Explication......Page 78
Does It AlwaysWork?......Page 79
What Social Visibility Exists for Youths’ Real Activities?......Page 82
Conclusions......Page 88
REFERENCES......Page 90
5 Youth Between Integration and Disaffiliation in French Cities......Page 91
Social Forms of Intermediate Spaces......Page 92
Cultures of Uncertainty......Page 94
The Production of Collective and Individual Competences......Page 95
The Construction of Collective Competences......Page 96
From Transitional Socialization to Socialization into the Urban Labor Market......Page 97
From Intermediate Spaces to Social Disaffection......Page 99
Changing Perspectives......Page 100
Social Commitment and Work......Page 101
SocialWorlds and the Socialization of Youth......Page 102
REFERENCES......Page 103
Some Examples of New Counterculture Youth Movements......Page 106
New Lifestyles and Identity Alternatives......Page 109
What Do Extreme Countercultural Groups Offer That Social Institutions Do Not?......Page 113
The Appropriation of Lifestyles......Page 115
Becoming an Insider......Page 116
Contracts of Deep Commitment......Page 119
Possible Life Careers and the Lifestyle/Identity Package......Page 120
Identity and the Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills......Page 123
Summary......Page 126
REFERENCES......Page 127
What Is Becoming a Member?......Page 129
Following Rules......Page 132
REFERENCES......Page 136
III PERSONAL AGENCY THROUGH COLLECTIVE ACTIVITY......Page 137
8 Learning and Thinking in Adolescence and Youth......Page 139
Learning, Thinking, and Social Practices: A Dialogue Among Three Partners......Page 141
Learning and New Technologies......Page 145
Abilities of Learning and Dropout Outcomes: A Challenge to Modern Societies......Page 147
Toward Late Adolescence and Youth: Becoming Workers?......Page 152
Conclusions......Page 157
REFERENCES......Page 159
The Social (in the Sense of the Intersubjective) Construction of Meaning......Page 161
The Social Construction of Self......Page 163
Processes of Change in the Service of the Maintenance of Self......Page 165
Various Provinces of Thinking with Alters on the Meaning of Self......Page 168
Epilogue......Page 171
REFERENCES......Page 172
10 Preapprenticeship......Page 173
An Institutional Context for the Case Study......Page 175
The Socioeconomic Context of the Program: Making Links......Page 176
The Student Body of the Preapprenticeship Program: Damaged Identities......Page 177
The Structure and Organization of the Preapprenticeship Program......Page 180
A Framework for Developing the Skills Needed to Integrate......Page 183
A Space for Personal Reconstruction......Page 186
Conditions for Maintaining the Framework Section......Page 187
Frameworks and Spaces: Building Conformity or Independence?......Page 189
REFERENCES......Page 191
IV LEARNING IN PRACTICE AND DISCOURSE......Page 195
11 From Learning Lessons to Living Knowledge......Page 197
Learning, Pedagogy, and the Emergence of Formal Schooling......Page 198
Discourse Formats and the Institutionalization of Learning......Page 200
Institutional Forms of Learning and Dialoguing with the Young......Page 208
REFERENCES......Page 210
12 Practice and Discourse as the Intersection of Individual and Social in Human Development......Page 212
REFERENCES......Page 221
13 Talking Matters......Page 224
Modes of Reasoning and the Rhetorical Organization of Institutional Practices of Learning......Page 226
Visibility and Learning......Page 228
Vernacular and Institutional Learning......Page 230
Improvisation and Reasoning......Page 231
Concluding Remarks......Page 232
REFERENCES......Page 234
Time Management by Students......Page 236
Parallel Processing Abilities......Page 237
Ability to Discern Levels of Information Processing......Page 238
Sociocultural Abilities......Page 239
Relational Abilities......Page 240
Conclusion......Page 241
REFERENCES......Page 242
15 Thinking with Others......Page 247
Excerpt 1......Page 252
Traverso Family......Page 253
Excerpt 3......Page 255
REFERENCES......Page 258
The Individuation Theory Framework......Page 261
Family Interaction in Germany......Page 263
Role Dependency in Discourse......Page 264
Discourse in Different Situations......Page 265
Continuity and Change in Discourse......Page 266
Objective and Subjective Views on Discourse......Page 268
REFERENCES......Page 269
17 InteractiveMinds......Page 272
REFERENCES......Page 276
Youth as a Cultural Construction......Page 279
A Study in a School Setting of Students’ Opinions About Learning......Page 280
REFERENCES......Page 282
19 Joining Society in Europe......Page 287
An Approach Centered on Structures Rather Than on Individual Behavior......Page 288
Individual Behavior Adjustments or Institutional Constraints......Page 289
Methodology and Data......Page 290
Youth Participation and Unemployment Rates in Europe......Page 291
Varying Age of Transition......Page 294
An Analytical Grid of Education/Formation and Certification Systems......Page 296
Transition Patterns: School Model or Apprenticeship Society?......Page 297
The Parallel Evolutions......Page 298
School Model and Transition......Page 299
Apprenticeship Society and Transition......Page 300
Dual System Shortcomings......Page 301
A Model in Crisis?......Page 302
REFERENCES......Page 303
20 The School-to-Work Transition......Page 306
Youth Employment Problems......Page 307
The Duration of the School-to-Work Transition......Page 312
Conclusions......Page 317
REFERENCES......Page 318
21 To Be Young in Yugoslavia......Page 320
REFERENCES......Page 327
22 Youth and Unions in North America’s Service Society......Page 328
Youth, Education, and Work......Page 329
Unionization and Young Workers......Page 332
Postscript: Reflections on the 1997 Johann Jacobs Foundation Conference......Page 334
REFERENCES......Page 337
The Deinstitutionalization of Life Paths......Page 338
Reduction of Opportunities......Page 340
Knowledge as an Instrument of Protection......Page 343
Conditions for Building Socially Useful Knowledge......Page 345
Training Based on Cross-Sectional Competences......Page 346
REFERENCES......Page 347
Index......Page 349