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IN planning extensions and reforms of adolescent education, most local education authorities have be me fully aware that they can only be prepared by exact knowledge and sympathetic understanding of the needs of youth. In this book, which is an extension of and natural successor to her earlier work on this subject, Prof. Wheeler surveys the characteristic developments of, and variations among, adolescents. A careful survey is made of existing provisions for adolescent education and the service of youth in Britain, and the extensions and reforms which are now projected are treated to a critical examination based on facts built up during the author's long experience in this field. Internal problems like those of the curriculum, educational and vocational guidance, methods of discipline and teaching, and the religious and moral education of adolescents are also subjected to close scrutiny, and means of solving them are suggested. Like its predecessor, this valuable book supports the view that Prof. Wheeler is one of our foremost authorities on the education of the adolescent.
The Adventure of Youth
The Psychology of Adolescence and its Bearing on the Extension and Reform of Adolescent Education. By Dr. Olive A. Wheeler. Pp. ix + 212. (Bickley: University of London Press, Ltd., 1945.) 6s. net.
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HAWKINS, T. The Adventure of Youth. Nature 158, 79 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158079c0
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