Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States [Hardcover]

This book addresses how countries can produce well-educated, healthy, and productive youth.In Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States, experts address the question of how countries can produce well-educated, healthy, and productive youth. They describe the theory, design, and implementation of innovative comprehensive education and health approaches. This book will be of particular interest to those interested in cross-national perspectives on the linkage between education and health, life skills training, and the engagement of families and other social institutions in the development of young adolescentsIn Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States, experts address the question of how countries can produce well-educated, healthy, and productive youth. They describe the theory, design, and implementation of innovative comprehensive education and health approaches. This book will be of particular interest to those interested in cross-national perspectives on the linkage between education and health, life skills training, and the engagement of families and other social institutions in the development of young adolescentsEarly adolescence, a critically important developmental phase in the lives of young people, has been neglected in terms of its potential to prevent educational and health problems. Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States attempts to address this neglect by focusing on cross-national perspectives and linking fundamental research on adolescent development to the challenges of preparing young people for adult life. This volume's contributors describe the theory, design, and implementation of innovative comprehensive education and health approaches. The contributors give serious consideration to increasing the positive influence of education in promoting literacy for a high-technology lÑ