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Adolescent Lives in Transition: How Social Class Influences the Adjustment to Middle Schoolreviewed by Kathryn Byrnes - 2006 Title: Adolescent Lives in Transition: How Social Class Influences the Adjustment to Middle School Author(s): Donna Marie San Antonio Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0791460363, Pages: 352, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com In Adolescent Lives in Transition: How Social Class Influences the Adjustment to Middle School, Donna Marie San Antonio offers her readers an insightful look into the transition of thirty students from their local elementary schools in the rural Northeastern United States to their integrated six-town seventh and eighth grade middle school. She uniquely addresses how the students home, school, community values and norms impact this transitional period in their lives. This ethnographic account of how two communities shape and are shaped by these young people privileges student voices and offers readers a glimpse into adolescent lives, struggles, and resiliency through the eyes of her research participantsthe adolescents.
San Antonio encourages her audience to value and respect the experiences of these sixth and seventh graders as she has: On a regular basis, I was brought up short by the students subtle, discerning insights and I was saddened that their vast knowledge,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Kathryn Byrnes
University of Colorado-Boulder E-mail Author KATIE BYRNES is a graduate student in Instruction and Curriculum at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Areas of interest and current projects involve teacher preparation, narrative research, rites of passage, and teacher identity/self. Recently, she published a review of David Labaree’s The Trouble with Ed Schools in Education Review.
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