Educating Adolescents Around the Globe: Becoming Who You Are in a World Full of Expectations

Part A: Adolescence from a Theoretical Perspective.- Ch.1 Adolescence - A Cultural-Sociological Perspective.- Ch.2 Adolescents Instead of Adolescence: Beyond Phases and Developmental Tasks.- Part B: A Journey to different Countries around the World.- Ch.3 Educating Adolescents in India: Challenges and A Proposed Roadmap.- Ch.4 India's Demographic Dividend: Addressing the Challenge of Poverty in Educating Adolescents.-  Ch.5 Building Blocks and Barriers to Educational Attainment and Learning in Kenyan Schools: Preserving or Changing Cultural Identity Markers.- Ch.6 Education for Street-Connected Children in Kenya:  Marginalization, Challenges, and Recommendations.- Ch.7 Is It Fair?  The German Education System and Its Stumbling Blocks for Adolescents.- Ch.8 Dead End Schools? Refugee Teenagers and School Segregation in Germany.- Ch.9 The Brazilian Education System: The Challenges of Inequality.- Ch.10 Teaching Young Offenders in Brazil.- Ch.11 Japanese Schools and (Necessary) Educational Reforms:  Challenges and Opportunities for Adolescents.- Ch.12 The Dialogical Construction of School Connectedness for Delinquent Youth.- Ch.13 Generation Calm - When Education Turns Inward.- Ch.14 Contextualised Understanding of and Transdisciplinary Approaches to School Dropout.- Part C: Learning and Intervention.- Ch.15: What Is There to Be Learned and How?  Learning Through the Lens of the Self.- Ch.16 School as Intervention: A Multilayered and Culturally Embedded Concept.- Ch.17 My delinquent voice: Screaming, but so what?.- Ch.18 A Tour of Adolescent Education around the World: Lessons Learned and A Vision for the Future.