Journal article
Seduction and scissiparity: The American crisis of adolescent identity
Educational philosophy and theory, v 54(12), pp 2097-2107
27 Sep 2021
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Abstract
The COVID-19 era unleashed a separate medical crisis in the United States: adolescent mental health struggles led to a spike in teen suicides. Adolescence, the period of development long associated with the search for one's identity-a struggle that requires engagement with one's peers for a healthy resolution-was complicated by the lockdowns and extended periods of isolation. The social convulsions associated with this past year exposed an unfortunate vulnerability of this generation: deep down, they long for what their predecessors had-embodied, meaningful connections with their peers. Using the existential theories of French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, this paper examines how the contextual elements of this pandemic have contributed to an evolutionary process vis-a-vis the current crisis of adolescent identity, and then explores how we might consider deliberate learning opportunities for to help students understand themselves and the impact of what has just happened to the global community.
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- Title
- Seduction and scissiparity: The American crisis of adolescent identity
- Creators
- Brad M. Petitfils - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Educational philosophy and theory, v 54(12), pp 2097-2107
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 11
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000702197500001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85116159932
- Other Identifier
- 991019169788404721
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