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ERIC Number: EJ598324
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Navigating the Psychosocial Pressures of Adolescence: The Voices and Experiences of High School Youth.
Phelan, Patricia; Yu, Hanh Cao; Davidson, Ann Locke
American Educational Research Journal, v31 n2 p415-47 Sum 1994
Identifies the pressures and problems in adolescents' family, peer, and school worlds that they perceive as having impact on their learning. Interviews with 55 ethnically and academically diverse urban youth show problems with social worlds and transitions and the social, emotional, and educational consequences of these problems. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Diversity (Student), Educational Environment, Experience, Family Influence, High School Students, High Schools, Student Attitudes, Urban Schools, Urban Youth
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Psychosocial Factors
Note: Version of a paper presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 1992). Research supported through Grant G0087C235 from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement.