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ERIC Number: EJ284770
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983
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Is Early Adolescence Really a Stage of Development?
Thornburg, Hershel D.
Theory into Practice, v22 n2 p79-84 Spr 1983
The issue of whether or not early adolescence is a transitional or stable period of development may be dependent on our ability to describe ways in which early adolescents are quantitatively and qualitatively different from when they were children and how these early adolescent characteristics are forerunners to the more elaborate constructs of adolescent development. (CJ)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Physical Development, Preadolescents, Research Needs, Social Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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