Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids

Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
ISBN-10
1135919968
ISBN-13
9781135919962
Category
Social Science
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2013-10-18
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Murray Milner

Description

Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids argues that the teenage behaviors that annoy adults do not arise from ""hormones, "" bad parenting, poor teaching, or ""the media, "" but from adolescents' lack of power over the central features of their lives: they must attend school; they have no control over the curriculum; they can't choose who their classmates are. What teenagers do have is the power to create status systems and symbols that not only exasperate adults, but also impede learning and maturing. Ironically, parents, educators, and businesses are inadvertently major contributors to these ou.

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