In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England’s Dreaming, Jon Savage presented the “definitive history of the English punk movement” (The New York Times). Now, in Teenage, he explores the secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in a monumental work of cultural investigative reporting. Beginning in 1875 and ending in 1945, when the term “teenage” became an integral part of popular culture, Savage draws widely on film, music, literature high and low, fashion, politics, and art and fuses popular culture and social history into a stunning chronicle of modern life. » Read more: Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945
This Week’s News: Youth in Transition
Education
Newark school offers alternative path to learning
Newark Live, Newark, NJ – September 1, 2009
Urban Academy, an alternative high school that opens here this week, has no tests, no grades and few textbooks. But that’s not what interested Dario McNeil, 16, one of the incoming students. He’s excited about the internship that’s a required part of the curriculum. “I like hands-on. That’s how you learn,” McNeil said. “They are offering something I cannot get out of regular high school.”
Preparing Youth for the Crossing From Adolescence to Early Adulthood, Number 111: New Directions for Youth Development
This volume examines how developmental issues facing older youth impact their crossover into early adulthood, and investigates innovative strategies being employed to better meet the needs of these youth. Implications for policymakers and funders in taking the support of older youth to scale are also considered in this volume. There is a growing concern that young people are reaching the age of eighteen unprepared for the primary challenge of young adulth… More >>