The Means to Grow Up: Reinventing Apprenticeship as a Developmental Support in Adolescence (Critical Youth Studies)

by Robert Halpern

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9780415960335
ISBN: 0415960339
Label: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 230
Publication Date: 2008-11-26
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge

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"In The Means to Grow Up", Robert Halpern describes the pedagogical importance of 'apprenticeship' - a growing movement based in schools, youth-serving organizations, and arts, civic, and other cultural institutions. This movement aims to re-engage youth through in-depth learning and unique experiences under the guidance of skilled professionals. Employing a 'pedagogy of apprenticeship', these experiences combine specific, visceral, and sometimes messy work with opportunity for self-expression, increasing responsibility, and exposure to the adult world.Grounded in ethnographic studies, "The Means to Grow Up" illustrates how students work in unique ways around these meaningful activities and projects across a range of disciplines. Participation in these efforts strengthens skills, dispositions, and self-knowledge that is critical to future schooling and work, renews young peoples' sense of vitality, and fosters a grounded sense of accomplishment. In unearthing the complexities of apprenticeship learning, Halpern challenges the education system that is increasingly geared towards the acquisition of de-contextualized skills. Instead, he reveals how learning alongside experienced adults can be a profoundly challenging and complex endeavor for adolescents and offers readers an exciting vision of what education can and should be about.

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