I have been spending a lot of time finding, printing and reading articles for the upcoming assignments I have to do for university. I found that I was getting sidetracked a great deal when I found something interesting but am endeavoring to keep on track, at least until Assignment 1 is done and dusted. I sat down yesterday with my books, articles and trusty computer (that J had to fix for me - thanks J!) and began writing...and it flowed, and flowed, and flowed. I did 1500 words and it actually seems to make sense.
My question is to compare a case study given to us in the readings (see details below) and do the following:
Compare Jose's case to (1) the literature on child and adolescent development with regard to the areas of personality and social development (including issues such as gender, culture, peer relationships, families etc) and (2) to your own experiences.
I am concentrating on the family and ethnicity and have been doing a great deal of reading about ethnic identity development which is really interesting - so much to consider. It seems like a relatively new area of research and adds another dimension to considerations about identity formation; how, when, what etc...
I found some good articles about the influence of family on adolescents but have to read them next week. It is interesting - I heard a podcast concerning this subject and one theorist puts forward the idea that parents have little to no influence over the way their children will grow up - she puts more stock in the influence of peers than parents. Will have to find the link later. Not sure what I think yet but am upon reading Adolescence - Chapter 9 - Families - I think I am siding with The Continuity View (pages 276) - more about this in the next post....
Back to it...
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