1st Edition

Educating Adolescent Girls

By E. M. Chandler Copyright 1980
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

‘Girls are worse than boys these days’ was a common complaint from teachers in the 1970s. Whether true or not, this viewpoint was pervasive, yet little guidance had been given to the student teachers to help them tackle the problems that girls presented. Originally published in 1980, the main purpose of this work was to provide a soundly based textbook on the education of adolescent girls... Read more

Preface.  1. An Introduction to Adolescent Girls  2. The Adolescent in Conflict  3. The Coming of Puberty  4. Dependency  5. The Physical Education of the Adolescent  6. Keeping up Appearances  7. Classroom Control and the Normal Adolescent  8. Classroom Control and the Difficult Girl  9. The Bully and the Bullied  10. School Refusal  11. Sexuality  12. Girls Who Have Been Assaulted  13. Girls and their Health  14. Suicide, Depression and Suicide Threats  15. Stealing  16. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Drops the H-Bomb  17. Careers  18. Conclusion – a Mind Like a Man’s.  Bibliography and References.  Index.

Biography

E. M. Chandler