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ADOLESCENT COGNITION: THINKING IN A NEW KEY With David Elkind, Ph.D.
1999 (31 min) $250.
ISBN: 1-891340-67-0 View a short clip from this film Visit our Support Materials section to view or download the Learning Guide and Discussion Topics for this film.
It is not just teenage bodies that undergo tremendous changes in
adolescence; young minds begin working in new ways that sometimes cause
awkward situations just as do the newly elongated legs or deeper voices.
Referring to the work of Piaget, Erikson, Goffman and his own studies, David
Elkind looks at the intellectual, emotional and social consequences that
result
Film content: Formal reasoning as conceptualized by Barbel Inhelder and Jean Piaget Ability to use abstractions Reasoning from propositions Creation of ideals Thinking about thinking Use of combinatorial reasoning David Elkind’s concepts of the “personal fable” and the “imaginary audience” Erving Goffman’s analysis of “strategic interventions” Erik Erikson’s concept of building a “personal identity”
Visuals: The majority of the film was shot in an exemplary middle school. Telling vignettes in science, math, English and physical education classes Lunchtime peer interactions The planning and rehearsals for a talent show Disciplinary encounters with the principal An teacher-student interview about reading challenges
A longitudinal segment in which a girl at age 9 and at age 14
responds to a proverb, showing the maturation of her A countywide track meet Structured interviews assessing the “imaginary audience” concept across age groups An older Hispanic teen talks about building her self-identity across two cultures Animated sequences
Consultant: David Elkind, Ph.D. is a Professor of Child Development, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. He did his Ph.D. at UCLA and a post-doctorate year in Switzerland working directly with Jean Piaget. He is a Past President of the National Association for the Education of Children. Dr. Elkind is the author of several seminal books, among them: THE HURRIED CHILD, ALL GROWN UP WITH NO PLACE TO GO, THE POWER OF PLAY.
Other films with Dr. Elkind as consultant: PIAGET’S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION GROWING MINDS: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD USING WHAT WE KNOW: APPLYING PIAGET'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY IN PRIMARY CLASSROOMS Related film: Part of the CONSTRUCTIVISM SERIES
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from the changes in thinking. These changes permit new ways of reasoning and
enable students to take on much more challenging materials, but sometimes
the transition results in inconsistent forms of thinking that create social
and emotional difficulties. The video includes newly shot film of a
public middle school, and structured interviews illustrating the intellectual
challenges of this period of life when adolescents are constructing personal
identities and new mental capacities.
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