International Perspectives on Adolescence

Frank Pajares|Tim Urdan

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Contents

This installment in the series "Adolescence and Education", edited by Tim Urdan and Frank Pajares, focuses on International Perspectives of Adolescence.

Foreword; Frank Pajares and Tim Urdan.

Chapter 1. The Education of Persons in Multicultural Canada; Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, and Sarah Hickinbottom.
Chapter 2. Educating Adolescents in Australia: Motivation and the Middle School Years; Dennis M. McInerney, Katrina Simpson, and Martin Dowson.
Chapter 3. Cognitive Style and School Performance in Adolescents: A UK Perspective; Richard J. Riding.
Chapter 4. The Long Transition to Adulthood: An Italian View; Gian Vittorio Caprara, Eugenia Scabini, and Giovanni B. Sgritta.
Chapter 5. Adolescence in Dutch Culture: A Self-Regulation Perspective; Monique Boekaerts.
Chapter 6. Tools for Life-Long Learning: The Growing Emphasis on Learning-to-Learn Competencies and ICT in Adolescent Education in Finland; Markku Niemivirta and Sanna Järvelä.
Chapter 7. Dialectic Contradictions in the Experiences of Israeli Jewish Adolescents: Efficacy and Stress, Closeness and Friction, and Conformity and Noncompliance; Ofra Mayseless and Gavriel Salomon.
Chapter 8. Adolescents' Self-Image in Lebanon: Implications for Education; Huda Ayyash-Abdo.
Chapter 9. Career Education and Development of Adolescents in Argentina; Edgardo R. Perez and Maria C. Osuna.
Chapter 10. Adolescence and Education: Contemporary Trends in Brazilian Research; Jose A. Bzuneck and Evely Boruchovitch.
Chapter 11. High School Education in Peru: Perspectives from the Third World; Juana Pinzas.
Chapter 12. Youth Identity and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Crain Soudien and Joy Alexander.
Chapter 13. Adolescent Education in Hong Kong and Mainland China: Effects of Culture and Context of Learning on Chinese Adolescents; Farideh Salili, Hui Zhou, and Rumjahn Hoosain.
Chapter 14. Characteristics and Problems for the Development of Adolescents in Taiwan; Der-Hsiang Huang.
Chapter 15. Choices, Evaluations, and Opportunities for Success: Academic Motivation of Korean Adolescents; Mimi Bong.
Chapter 16. Education of Adolescents in India: Context and Constraints; T. S. Saraswathi, Nandini Manjrekar, and Prarthana Pant.
Chapter 17. Adolescents' Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulated Learning Practices in Science: A Malaysian Case Study; Heng-Loke Siow and Mary Siew-Lian Wong.