Maintaining Boundaries: Four Guidelines for Educators in a Teenage World

Autor/in	Porter, Susan Eva
Titel	Maintaining Boundaries: Four Guidelines for Educators in a Teenage World
Quelle	In: Independent School, 69 (2010) 4 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-9635
Schlagwörter	Sexual Orientation; Adolescents; Guidelines; Sexuality; Sexual Identity; Adolescent Attitudes; Adolescent Development; Social Influences; Emotional Intelligence; Change Strategies; Personality Change; Personality Development; Teacher Role; Teacher Student Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexuelle Orientierung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Richtlinien; Sexualität; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Sozialer Einfluss; Emotionale Intelligenz; Lösungsstrategie; Persönlichkeitstest; Persönlichkeitsveränderung; Personalilty development; Persönlichkeitsbildung; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Lehrerrolle; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung
Abstract	Teenagers, and many preteens, can't get away from their hormone-filled bodies; therefore, they spend lots of time during school contending with issues of sexuality--from profound questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to more mundane issues such as whom a particularly cute classmate will choose to sit next to in English. Like it or not, these issues are as important--and usually much more pressing--to students than what is being taught in class. This does not mean teenagers can't focus on anything else but sexuality, but rather that they can never get away from themselves and their burgeoning sexuality during adolescence. This reality has huge implications for those who work with adolescents in the Teenage World, which is what the author calls middle and high schools. Adults who work in the Teenage World are immersed in adolescent sexuality all day long, and, therefore, if they wish to create and sustain healthy school environments for their students, they must understand how sexuality affects them. In addition, if they want to create and sustain healthy school environments for ourselves, they must also understand how adolescent sexuality affects us personally. It is impossible to work with teenagers and not be affected by their sexuality, and it's also impossible to work with them and not be affected by their own. In this article, the author discusses four guidelines that help direct adults' thinking and actions in their relationships with students in the Teenage World. When they consider and abide by these directives, they articulate and maintain the obvious and the not-so-obvious boundaries as they relate to teenagers. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10