Ready, Willing, and Able: A Developmental Approach to College Access and Success - Couverture souple

Savitz-Romer, Mandy; Bouffard, Suzanne M.

 
9781612501321: Ready, Willing, and Able: A Developmental Approach to College Access and Success
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 161250132X ISBN 13 : 9781612501321
Editeur : Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2012

Synopsis

How can an understanding of adolescent development inform strategies and practices for supporting first-generation college goers? In Ready, Willing, and Able, Mandy Savitz-Romer and Suzanne Bouffard focus on the developmental tasks and competencies that young people need to develop in order to plan for and succeed in higher education.

These include identity development, articulating aspirations and expectations, forming and maintaining strong peer and adult relationships, motivation and goal-setting, and self-regulatory skills, such as planning.

The authors challenge the predominant approach of giving young people information and leaving it to them to figure out how to apply it. They show how well-intended college-access efforts can miss the mark--for instance, by focusing on students who already see themselves as college material, rather than working to help all students develop a "college-going identity." In addition, most college-access programs and practices focus almost exclusively on providing academic preparation and financial support.

In Ready, Willing, and Able, Savitz-Romer and Bouffard call for a new approach: one that emphasizes the key developmental tasks and processes of adolescence and integrates them into existing college-access practices in meaningful ways. Rather than treating young people as passive recipients of services, they argue, adults can engage them as active agents in the construction of their own futures.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

Mandy Savitz-Romer is a faculty member and director of the Prevention Science and Practice Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
161250132X
ISBN 13 
9781612501321
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible