Youth, Education, and the Role of Society: Rethinking Learning in the High School Years

by Robert Halpern

Youth, Education, and the Role of Society examines the "learning landscape" currently available to American adolescents, arguing that we need to expand, enrich, and diversify the learning opportunities available to young people today.

Central to the book is Robert Halpern's view that we depend too exclusively on schools to meet the full range of young people's developmental needs. "High school learning as typically structured is just...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612505368
• ISBN13: 9781612505367
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Harvard Education PR
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"