I: The social construction of adolescence / Kenneth J. Saltman
From Adolescence / G. Stanley Hall
The role of pubertal processes / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Edward O. Reiter
The American child and other cultural inventions / William Kessen
"Teaching our sons" / Gail Bederman
Denaturalizing adolescence : the politics of contemporary representations / Nancy Lesko
The invention of the sexual adolescent / Jeffrey P. Moran
"Bashing youth" and "wild in deceit" / Mike Males
Nymphet fantasies : child beauty pageants and the politics of innocence / Henry A. Giroux
II: The middle school concept and the purpose of education / Enora R. Brown
From The emergent middle school / William M. Alexander
Turning points : preparing American youth for the 21st century / Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development
The future of middle level education : optimistic and pessimistic views / John H. Lounsbury and Gordon F. Vars
Back to the future : middle schools and the Turning points report / Nancy Lesko
Schooling in capitalist America / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Rivers of fire : Amoco's iMPACT on education and other corporate incursions / Kenneth J. Saltman and Robin Truth Goodman
From Pedagogy of the oppressed / Paolo Freire
III: The construction of identity / Kenneth J. Saltman
Identity : youth and crisis / Erik H. Erikson
Racial identity formation and transformation / Janie Victoria Ward
Freedom for some, discipline for "others" : the structure of inequity in education / Enora R. Brown
From Representation : cultural representations and signifying practices / Stuart Hall
From Bad boys : public schools in the making of Black male masculinity / Ann Arnett Ferguson
Asian Americans : the absent/silenced/model minority / Stacey Lee
Lesbian and gay adolescents : social and developmental considerations / Dennis A. Anderson
Canal Town girls / Julia Hall
Subtractive schooling and divisions among youth / Angela Valenzuela
English only : the tongue-tying of America / Donaldo Macedo
IV: Curriculum, assessment, and critical pedagogy / Enora R. Brown
A special kind of unity / James A. Beane
Critical pedagogy and the social construction of knowledge / Peter McLaren
Social class and school knowledge / Jean Anyon
Teaching and learning mathematics for social justice in an urban, Latino school / Eric Gutstein
"You can't just say that the only ones who can speak are those who agree with your position" : political discourse in the classroom / Melinda Fine
"How come there are no brothers on that list?" : hearing the hard questions all children ask / Kathe Jervis
Standardization, defensive teaching, and the problems of control / Linda M. McNeil.