Adolescents at School, Third Edition: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education

Adolescents at School brings together the perspectives of scholars, educators, and researchers to address the many issues that affect adolescents' emerging identities, especially in relation to students' experience of and engagement with school. The book offers current and preservice teachers a practical understanding of the concept of identity development, particularly as impacted by such factors as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability/disability, immigration, and social class.

This third edition includes new chapters on boys' emotional lives, risk and resilience in girls, the experiences of undocumented immigrant students, Muslim-American youth, and income inequality; features on "teaching while white"; and an extensively updated chapter on LGBTQ+ students. The book expands on the strengths and insights of the previous editions while also touching on issues highly relevant to contemporary youth such as social media, youth activism, and immigration.

A practical and insightful volume, Adolescents at School points to ways to foster the success of every student in our schools and classrooms.

Author: Michael Sadowski
Publisher: Harvard Education PR
Published: 10/27/2020
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781682535455

About the Author
Michael Sadowski is the executive director of two satellite campuses of Bard College where adolescents take Bard courses while still in high school. He also is an associate professor in Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching program, where he teaches courses in adolescent development and LGBTQ+ issues in education. He is the editor of the Youth Development and Education book series for Harvard Education Press, and his 2016 book for the series, Safe Is Not Enough, was featured by NPR and cited by GLSEN founder Kevin Jennings as "the most important book written on LGBTQ issues in education in my lifetime." His opinion writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Advocate, Education Week, and numerous other publications and blogs, and he has won a National Press Club Award for his writing in the Harvard Education Letter. He has been a faculty member at Harvard and Stanford universities, editor of the Harvard Education Letter, vice-chair of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth, a high school teacher, and a teacher trainer in New York City public schools. Sadowski is also a memoirist and fiction writer, and his memoir, Men I've Never Been (Living Out Series, University of Wisconsin Press, 2021), was shortlisted pre-publication for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for Nonfiction.