Joining Society: Social Interaction and Learning in Adolescence and Youth (The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence)

This study addresses a timely and crucial topic, the socialization of today's youth, by asking such precise questions as--What are the young socialized for? Which skills, modes of thinking or action are required of them and what are their developmental values? All too often, socialization tends to be viewed within the confines of a particular geographical or cultural situation. The multi-national contributors bring an international perspective to the problem of socialization in work and adult life by emphasizing common issues facing youth around the world. Cover......Page 1 Half-title......Page 3 Series-title......Page 5 Title......Page 7 Copyright......Page 8 Contents......Page 9 Contributors......Page 13 Foreword......Page 15 Preface......Page 17 REFERENCES......Page 19 I INTRODUCTION......Page 21 1 Thinking Spaces of the Young......Page 23 Interrelated Levels of Analysis......Page 25 The Social, Cultural, and Historical Embeddedness of the Development of Young People’s Life Skills......Page 27 Learning, Meaning Making, and Generativity......Page 28 REFERENCES......Page 29 2 Prospects for Youth in Postindustrial Societies......Page 31 What Do Youth Want? Lessons from Youth-Led Organizations......Page 35 Productivity and Work as Elements of Youth Socialization......Page 36 Communities of Practice and the Dilemma of Training......Page 37 Communities of Practice for Youth and Adults......Page 39 REFERENCES......Page 44 3 Overview of the Volume......Page 46 Part II: Youth-Constructed Socialization......Page 47 Part III: Personal Agency Through Collective Activity......Page 49 Part IV: Learning in Practice and Discourse......Page 51 Part V: Intergenerational Sites for Thinking......Page 53 Part VI: Pathways to Adulthood in National Context......Page 55 II YOUTH-CONSTRUCTED SOCIALIZATION......Page 59 Institutional Voids......Page 61 Youth-Based Organization......Page 66 What Is Happening?......Page 67 How Is It Happening?......Page 68 How Do These Groups Change?......Page 71 Language Development......Page 73 Building Relations......Page 76 Offering Evidence and Building Substantive Content......Page 77 Cognitive Strategy Building Through Risk-Taking and Explication......Page 78 Does It AlwaysWork?......Page 79 What Social Visibility Exists for Youths’ Real Activities?......Page 82 Conclusions......Page 88 REFERENCES......Page 90 5 Youth Between Integration and Disaffiliation in French Cities......Page 91 Social Forms of Intermediate Spaces......Page 92 Cultures of Uncertainty......Page 94 The Production of Collective and Individual Competences......Page 95 The Construction of Collective Competences......Page 96 From Transitional Socialization to Socialization into the Urban Labor Market......Page 97 From Intermediate Spaces to Social Disaffection......Page 99 Changing Perspectives......Page 100 Social Commitment and Work......Page 101 SocialWorlds and the Socialization of Youth......Page 102 REFERENCES......Page 103 Some Examples of New Counterculture Youth Movements......Page 106 New Lifestyles and Identity Alternatives......Page 109 What Do Extreme Countercultural Groups Offer That Social Institutions Do Not?......Page 113 The Appropriation of Lifestyles......Page 115 Becoming an Insider......Page 116 Contracts of Deep Commitment......Page 119 Possible Life Careers and the Lifestyle/Identity Package......Page 120 Identity and the Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills......Page 123 Summary......Page 126 REFERENCES......Page 127 What Is Becoming a Member?......Page 129 Following Rules......Page 132 REFERENCES......Page 136 III PERSONAL AGENCY THROUGH COLLECTIVE ACTIVITY......Page 137 8 Learning and Thinking in Adolescence and Youth......Page 139 Learning, Thinking, and Social Practices: A Dialogue Among Three Partners......Page 141 Learning and New Technologies......Page 145 Abilities of Learning and Dropout Outcomes: A Challenge to Modern Societies......Page 147 Toward Late Adolescence and Youth: Becoming Workers?......Page 152 Conclusions......Page 157 REFERENCES......Page 159 The Social (in the Sense of the Intersubjective) Construction of Meaning......Page 161 The Social Construction of Self......Page 163 Processes of Change in the Service of the Maintenance of Self......Page 165 Various Provinces of Thinking with Alters on the Meaning of Self......Page 168 Epilogue......Page 171 REFERENCES......Page 172 10 Preapprenticeship......Page 173 An Institutional Context for the Case Study......Page 175 The Socioeconomic Context of the Program: Making Links......Page 176 The Student Body of the Preapprenticeship Program: Damaged Identities......Page 177 The Structure and Organization of the Preapprenticeship Program......Page 180 A Framework for Developing the Skills Needed to Integrate......Page 183 A Space for Personal Reconstruction......Page 186 Conditions for Maintaining the Framework Section......Page 187 Frameworks and Spaces: Building Conformity or Independence?......Page 189 REFERENCES......Page 191 IV LEARNING IN PRACTICE AND DISCOURSE......Page 195 11 From Learning Lessons to Living Knowledge......Page 197 Learning, Pedagogy, and the Emergence of Formal Schooling......Page 198 Discourse Formats and the Institutionalization of Learning......Page 200 Institutional Forms of Learning and Dialoguing with the Young......Page 208 REFERENCES......Page 210 12 Practice and Discourse as the Intersection of Individual and Social in Human Development......Page 212 REFERENCES......Page 221 13 Talking Matters......Page 224 Modes of Reasoning and the Rhetorical Organization of Institutional Practices of Learning......Page 226 Visibility and Learning......Page 228 Vernacular and Institutional Learning......Page 230 Improvisation and Reasoning......Page 231 Concluding Remarks......Page 232 REFERENCES......Page 234 Time Management by Students......Page 236 Parallel Processing Abilities......Page 237 Ability to Discern Levels of Information Processing......Page 238 Sociocultural Abilities......Page 239 Relational Abilities......Page 240 Conclusion......Page 241 REFERENCES......Page 242 15 Thinking with Others......Page 247 Excerpt 1......Page 252 Traverso Family......Page 253 Excerpt 3......Page 255 REFERENCES......Page 258 The Individuation Theory Framework......Page 261 Family Interaction in Germany......Page 263 Role Dependency in Discourse......Page 264 Discourse in Different Situations......Page 265 Continuity and Change in Discourse......Page 266 Objective and Subjective Views on Discourse......Page 268 REFERENCES......Page 269 17 InteractiveMinds......Page 272 REFERENCES......Page 276 Youth as a Cultural Construction......Page 279 A Study in a School Setting of Students’ Opinions About Learning......Page 280 REFERENCES......Page 282 19 Joining Society in Europe......Page 287 An Approach Centered on Structures Rather Than on Individual Behavior......Page 288 Individual Behavior Adjustments or Institutional Constraints......Page 289 Methodology and Data......Page 290 Youth Participation and Unemployment Rates in Europe......Page 291 Varying Age of Transition......Page 294 An Analytical Grid of Education/Formation and Certification Systems......Page 296 Transition Patterns: School Model or Apprenticeship Society?......Page 297 The Parallel Evolutions......Page 298 School Model and Transition......Page 299 Apprenticeship Society and Transition......Page 300 Dual System Shortcomings......Page 301 A Model in Crisis?......Page 302 REFERENCES......Page 303 20 The School-to-Work Transition......Page 306 Youth Employment Problems......Page 307 The Duration of the School-to-Work Transition......Page 312 Conclusions......Page 317 REFERENCES......Page 318 21 To Be Young in Yugoslavia......Page 320 REFERENCES......Page 327 22 Youth and Unions in North America’s Service Society......Page 328 Youth, Education, and Work......Page 329 Unionization and Young Workers......Page 332 Postscript: Reflections on the 1997 Johann Jacobs Foundation Conference......Page 334 REFERENCES......Page 337 The Deinstitutionalization of Life Paths......Page 338 Reduction of Opportunities......Page 340 Knowledge as an Instrument of Protection......Page 343 Conditions for Building Socially Useful Knowledge......Page 345 Training Based on Cross-Sectional Competences......Page 346 REFERENCES......Page 347 Index......Page 349 Thinking Spaces Of The Young / Anne-nelly Perret-clermont -- Prospects For Youth In Postindustrial Societies / Lauren B. Resnick And Anne-nelly Perret-clermont -- Overview Of The Volume / Tania Zittoun, Anne-nelly Perret-clermont, And Clotilde Pontecorvo -- Risks, Rules, And Roles : Youth Perspectives On The Work Of Learning For Community Development / Shirley Brice Heath -- Youth Between Integration And Disaffiliation In French Cities / Laurence Roulleau-berger -- A New Identity, A New Lifestyle / Karsten Hundeide -- Becoming A Member By Following The Rules / Alain Coulon -- Learning And Thinking In Adolescence And Youth : How To Inhabit New Provinces Of Meaning / Felice Carugati -- From The Provinces Of Meaning To The Capital Of A Good Self : Some Reflections On Learning And Thinking In The Process Of Growing Adult In Society / John B. Rijsman -- Preapprenticeship : A Transitional Space / Tania Zittoun --^ From Learning Lessons To Living Knowledge : Instructional Discourse And Life Experiences Of Youth In Complex Society / Roger Säljö -- Practice And Discourse As The Intersection Of Individual And Social In Human Development / Jonathan Tudge -- Talking Matters : Studying The Use Of Interdependencies Of Individual And Collective Action In Youthful Learning / David Middleton -- Young People's Use Of Information And Communication Technologies : The Role Of Sociocultural Abilities / Jacques Perriault -- Thinking With Others : The Social Dimension Of Learning In Families And Schools / Clotilde Pontecorvo -- The Role Of Discourse In The Transformation Of Parent-adolescent Relationships / Manfred Hofer -- Interactive Minds : A Paradigm From Life Span Psychology / Ursula M. Staudinger -- Thinking Youth, Thinking School : Social Representations And Fieldwork In Educational Research / Claude Albert Kaiser --^ Joining Society In Europe : Convergence Or Sustainability Of National Specifications / Annie Fouquet -- The School-to-work Transition : Problems And Indicators / Paul Ryan -- To Be Young In Yugoslavia : Life After A Social Chernobyl / Dragan Popadić -- Youth And Unions In North America's Service Society / Stuart Tannock -- Joining Society : With What Certainty? / Saul Meghnagi. Edited By Anne-nelly Perret-clermont ... [et Al.]. The 'joining Society: Social Interaction And Learning In Adolescence And Youth' Conference, Held At Marbach Castle, Germany, In 1997 Provides The Basis For This Volume--p. Xiii. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Joining Society asks precise questions: To what are the young socialized? Which skills, modes of thinking or action are required from them and what are their developmental value? Socialization tends to be viewed within the confines of a particular geographical or cultural situation. The multi-national list of contributors brings an international perspective to the problem of socialization to work and to adult life, while at the same time emphasizing the common issues that face youth around the world. Some of the topics addressed are the rules and roles involved in socialization, attaining personal agency through collective activity, use of new technologies, and the role of intergenerational relationships. This book sheds new light on the processes through which society may hope to intervene in positive ways with today's youth.