Working and Growing Up in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Working and Growing Up in America write by Jeylan T. MORTIMER. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Working and Growing Up in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Should teenagers have jobs while they're in high school? Doesn't working distract them from schoolwork, cause long-term problem behaviors, and precipitate a precocious transition to adulthood? This report from a remarkable longitudinal study of 1,000 students, followed from the beginning of high school through their mid-twenties, answers, resoundingly, no. Examining a broad range of teenagers, Jeylan Mortimer concludes that high school students who work even as much as half-time are in fact better off in many ways than students who don't have jobs at all. Having part-time jobs can increase confidence and time management skills, promote vocational exploration, and enhance subsequent academic success. The wider social circle of adults they meet through their jobs can also buffer strains at home, and some of what young people learn on the job--not least responsibility and confidence--gives them an advantage in later work life.
Working and Growing Up in America
Working and Growing Up in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Working and Growing Up in America write by Jeylan T. Mortimer. This book was released on 2003. Working and Growing Up in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Growing Up America
Growing Up America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Up America write by Susan Eckelmann Berghel. This book was released on 2019. Growing Up America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people-and their representations-at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in constructing and challenging cultural norms, and in navigating the vicissitudes of American foreign policy and diplomatic relations. The authors featured here reveal how young people have served as both political actors and subjects from the early Cold War through the late twentieth-century Age of Fracture. At the same time, Growing Up America contends that the politics of childhood and youth extends far beyond organized activism and the ballot box. By unveiling how science fairs, breakfast nooks, Boy Scout meetings, home economics classrooms, and correspondence functioned as political spaces, this anthology encourages a reassessment of the scope and nature of modern politics itself.
Growing Up in America
Growing Up in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Up in America write by Brad Christerson. This book was released on 2010-04-28. Growing Up in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ---Michael O. Emerson, Rice University --
Growing Up with America
Growing Up with America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Up with America write by Emily A. Murphy. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Growing Up with America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When D. H. Lawrence wrote his classic study of American literature, he claimed that youth was the “true myth” of America. Beginning from this assertion, Emily A. Murphy traces the ways that youth began to embody national hopes and fears at a time when the United States was transitioning to a new position of world power. In the aftermath of World War II, persistent calls for the nation to “grow up” and move beyond innocence became common, and the child that had long served as a symbol of the nation was suddenly discarded in favor of a rebellious adolescent. This era marked the beginning of a crisis of identity, where literary critics and writers both sought to redefine U.S. national identity in light of the nation’s new global position. The figure of the adolescent is central to an understanding of U.S. national identity, both past and present, and of the cultural forms (e.g., literature) that participate in the ongoing process of representing the diverse experiences of Americans. In tracing the evolution of this youthful figure, Murphy revisits classics of American literature, including J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, alongside contemporary bestsellers. The influence of the adolescent on some of America’s greatest writers demonstrates the endurance of the myth that Lawrence first identified in 1923 and signals a powerful link between youth and one of the most persistent questions for the nation: What does it mean to be an American?
