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Information Resource (http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/youth/youthgloss.pdf) A Series of Information Resources on Youth Subcultures: Glossary of Terms Related to Understanding Subgroups to Better Address Barriers to Learning Youth Culture Subgroups & Improve Schools Given that we are in the process of learning, our intent As calls for addressing barriers to student learning and improving schools increase, is to build a glossary over time. We begin here by better understanding of youth subculture is adopting/adapting descriptions and student quotes from essential. This series is intended to M. Milner’s 2004 book Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: stimulate thinking about the implications for policy and practice of the complex, American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of multifaceted subgroups with which youth Consumption (Routledge Press). come to be identified and/or assigned by peers. And, in the spirit of youth subculture’s immersion in 21st Public health and education policy makers, century technology, we also provide some additional practitioners, researchers, and educators terms from Wikipedia. need to know as much as they can about the factors that lead youth to manifest behaviors stemming from group defined Note: Many of the terms used by youth in values, beliefs, attitudes, and interests. referring to subgroups often are not well- Such understanding is basic to promoting articulated and may be pejorative and offensive. healthy development, preventing We do not suggest imprecision is good nor do problems, intervening as soon as problems arise, and enhancing intervention impact we condone repugnant language. We do, on severe and chronic problems. however, recognize the need to go beyond adultcentric definitions and descriptions of youth To these ends, the Center is producing a subgroups if we are to understand youth series of resources, such as this one, as aids for policy and practice analyses, perceptions and perspectives.
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