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Publisher: Academic Excellence, Delhi |
| Author Amritha Murthy | |
| Language: ENGLISH | |
| Pages: 195 (with B/W Illustrations) | |
| Cover: PAPERBACK | |
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8.5x5.5 Inch |
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Weight 210 gm |
| Edition: 2008 | |
| ISBN: 9788189901653 | |
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HBX932 |
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Adolescents
standing as they do on the threshold of adult life, form an extremely important
part of the society. Their importance is not so much based on their numbers as
it is on the fact that their optimum development forms the basis for the
wellbeing of society and its progress. Thus to understand them, to appreciate
their needs, to provide them with proper avenues for learning, specially suited
to their aptitudes so that they blossom to their full potential, becomes a
primal task. Fortunately this point is being recognized and accepted by society
and the adolescents are being studied from various angles. Academicians and
educators are interested in devising special and individualised strategies to
capture and hold the adolescent's energies, for school no longer occupies the
centre stage in an adolescent's life. It has to face stiff competition from
agencies like cinema, TV, neighbourhood gangs, music groups, multiplexes, malls
and pub culture, resulting in undesirable stress in vulnerable teenagers.
Social psychologists and behavioural scientists, are studying the unique and
specific problems of adolescents in order to guide them to become productive
members of the society. These scholars make us believe that there are no
problem adolescents' but only solvable adolescent problems'. Again, there is
this new breed of highly qualified professional market researchers who do
extensive surveys on the in culture' of adolescents - their likes and dislikes
in clothes, food, movies, music, beauty aids, shoes and reading material. The
young are already recognised by the society as a body of affluent consumers and
are the target for well directed advertisement blitz attributed to so called
modelling effects by psychologists. THE ADOLESCENT YEARS Adolescence can be
defined as the period of time during which individuals change from children to
adults. It is the period which can be the most volatile and difficult stretch
of life, a time that is laden with the possibility of disaster and yet holds the
brightest promise for the future. It is a time of paradoxes and torturous
ecstasy that caused Shakespeare to write "I would there were no age
between sixteen and three and twenty". It revolves around an individual
who is not-quite child, not-quite grown up. The landscape of these years is
dotted with emotional peaks and valleys whose heights and depths may never be
matched in later life. These obstacles confront youth of every culture. They
are traversed most readily in traditional societies where centuries of
experience have defined clear paths for transition from childhood to adult
responsibility, but in modern technological cultures buffeted and bewildered by
rapid change, the turmoil and confusion are acute. Rebellious and provocative
behaviour, isolation and withdrawal, extreme lethargy and apathy, peculiar ways
of dressing, a bizarre and unintelligible language, strange obsessions and fads
all these characteristics which will be considered as signs of emotional
illness in an adult, are now being accepted, albeit reluctantly and woefully by
parents and teachers, as growing pains in teenagers. They are not causes for
alarm.
Dr.
Amritha Murthy has been a brilliant rank-holding scholar and has been a
distinguished educationist with a career encompassing a span of three and a
half decades. She is a recipient of many awards and citations notable among
them bring "Life Time Achievement Award" for her meritorious services
in the field of Education, Guru Dronacharya Samman "Golden Jubilee of
Independence Award" by Rajasthan Govt. in honour of services to education
and many more. She has published 3 books and is a regular contributor to
journals on psychology, education and Vedanta. She regularly conducts Seminars,
Workshops and Lectures for Principals, Teachers, Parents and General Public at
the request of reputed organization. Dr. Murthy is a practicing psychologist
and does guidance and counselling to mentally and physically challenged
students of concerned institutions. She is also actively involved with the
"Alzeimers Society of India" for memory impaired (dementia) adults.
She has versatile knowledge and experience in all fields of education school,
college.
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