School management and sexual behavior of teenagers

This paper asks whether school based management may help reducing risky sexual behavior of teenagers. For this purpose we use student level data from Bogot´a to identify students from Concession School (CS), who are enrolled in public education system with a more school management autonomy at school level, and to compare them with those students at the traditional public education system. We use propensity score matching methods to have a comparable sample between pupils at CS and traditional schools. Our results show that on average the behavior of students from CS do not have a sexual behavior that differs from those in traditional public schools except for boys in CS who have a lower probability of being sexual active. However, there are important differences when heterogeneity is considered. For example we find that CS where girls per boys ratio is higher have lower teenage pregnancy rates than public schools with also high girls per boys ratios. We also find that teachers’ human capital, teacher-pupil ratio or whether school offers sexual education are also related to statistically significant differences between CS and traditional public schools.

The anti-civic effects of popular culture on American teenagers.

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Language activities for teenagers.

Noventa y nueve actividades para que los alumnos de once a dieciséis años practiquen las habilidades de hablar, leer, escuchar y escribir, desarrollar vocabulario, usar la literatura, promover el debate. Las actividades se pueden utilizar junto con cualquier libro de texto y sirven incluso para los alumnos menos motivados. Tiene bibliografía e índice.

Film, TV and music : multi-level photocopiable activities for teenagers.

Este recurso para el profesor contiene actividades que abarcan temas de interés para los jóvenes como el cine, la música y la televisión. Proporciona material didáctico adicional, que puede fotocopiarse, para los niveles elemental, intermedio y avanzado.

Philosophy with teenagers : nurturing a moral imagination for the 21st century.

Facilita la exploración de los jóvenes de las principales cuestiones éticas de nuestro tiempo, tales como, la justicia, la comprensión intercultural y la educación para el desarrollo sostenible. Ofrece a los educadores la oportunidad de reflexionar sobre cómo el pensamiento filosófico en los adolescentes puede apoyar su desarrollo en individuos seguros de sí mismos y ciudadanos responsables, y se analiza la conveniencia de este proceso filosófico en las necesidades educativas del siglo veintiuno.

Pairwork and groupwork : multi-level photocopiable activities for teenagers.

Este recurso se organiza en torno a diecisiete áreas temáticas pertinentes para la vida e intereses de los adolescentes, divididas en más de cincuenta actividades y juegos con distintos niveles, desde el elemental hasta el superior intermedio. Estas actividades adicionales les permitan realizar prácticas de comunicación, en parejas y grupos, e incluyen juegos de mesa, juegos de rol, cuestionarios y resolución de problemas y trabajos.

Teen world : multi-level photocopiable activities for teenagers.

Este recurso se divide en diecisiete temas orientados a adolescentes, con más de cincuenta actividades y juegos de distintos niveles, desde el elemental hasta el intermedio superior. Estas actividades adicionales permiten la lectura, escritura, comprensión y conversación e incluyen juegos de rol, juegos de mesa, concursos y debates.

Fenómenos televisivos 'teenagers' : prototipias adolescentes en series vistas en España.

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An exploration of the role of narrative skills in higher-level reading comprehension of teenagers with hearing loss

This Study examines the relationship between scores on adolescents’ self-generated narratives and standardized reading-comprehension scores. This relationship is also compared with the more simple language metrics: vocabulary and syntax.

Social integration or social alienation: A look at the social functioning of oral deaf teenagers in the mainstream educational setting

The purpose of this literature review was to determine the social functioning of oral deaf adolescents in the mainstream educational setting.

`Tactical' living: a situated study of teenagers' negotiations around and interactions with living room media

This paper examines everyday living room interactions in which teenage household members conduct `tactical' play in order to temporarily gain access to, and disrupt, the dominant, domestic codes of living room media. The practices of individuals are interpreted, through Michel de Certeau's language of `tactics', as struggles or a series of opportunistic actions which can often reforge these codes of living, precisely because the house `rules' are not fixed or deterministic in practice. In these tactical performances of self, the use of media is enmeshed in a host of situated and symbolic action, reaffirming how media and face-to-face interactions are multiply and closely entwined in everyday living room life. This video ethnographic work examines such instances of teenagers appealing to `house' rules and demonstrating domestic helpfulness in order to gain access to media, and the tethering of media to objects through the routine practice of `markers' and `stalls'.

Work, study, both or neither? time allocation of Brazilian teenagers

Labor force participation among youth is extremely high in Brazil when compared to countries with a similar economic background. In Argentina and Chile labor force participation, among those with 10 to 14 years old, is around 1% while in Brazil this rate is as high as 17 %. For the those between 15 and 19 years old these figures are around 10% in Chile, 15% in Argentina and 53% in Brazil. On the other hand the data on school attendance give a more optimistic picture. The percentage of children, between 10 and 14 years old, enrolled in school increased steadily from 79% to 95% from 1981 to 1998 and with age between 15 and 19, from 46% to 66% in the same period. These figures are close to the ones presented by Chile and Argentina. around 99% among the youngest group and around 70% for the 15 to 19 years old group. The objective of the paper is to understand the determinants of the time allocation decision of the Brazilian youth during the last twenty years. Using a multinomial logit regression we investigate the conditional effect of various micro and macro variables on the time allocation decision for the 1991 to 1998 period. Our main findings are: working and studying became the most likely allocation among the youngest in the poor rural areas and, in general, to study, whether working or not, became less dependent on family background for the youngest group but not for the older.