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Ready, Willing, and Able

By Mandy Savitz-Romer

Ready, Willing, and Able Education & Training

Ready, Willing, and Able

By Mandy Savitz-Romer

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2012-04-30
Publication Date:
2012-04-01
Publisher:
Harvard Education PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
161250132X
ISBN13:
9781612501321
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
340 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
226 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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