Peer relationships and adjustment at school

• Other Authors: Ryan, Allison M. (Editor), Ladd, Gary W., 1950- (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2012.
• Series: Adolescence and education.
• Subjects: Student adjustment.; Interpersonal relations in adolescence.; Education > Special Education > Behavioral, Emotional & Social Disabilities.; Educational administration and organization.; Teaching of students with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.; Relating to people with visible or hidden disabilities, impairments or conditions.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806615339
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-809-8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages) : illustrations

This volume brings together an impressive array of respected scholars to examine the varied and complex ways in which peers influence adolescents' beliefs and behaviors in the school context. The breadth of peer influence on academic and social adjustment is evident in the wide variety of topic...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Peer relationships and adjustment at school: An Introduction / Allison M. Ryan
• Part I. Peer relationships: Nature, process, and implications for school adjustment
• Chapter 2. Classroom peer relations and children's social and scholastic development: Risk factors and resources / Gary W. Ladd, Becky Kochenderfer-Ladd, Kari Jeanne Visconti, and Idean Ettekal
• Chapter 3. Will the real peer group please stand up? A tensegrity approach to examining the synergistic influences of peer groups and friendship networks on academic development / Thomas A. Kindermann and Ellen A. Skinner
• Chapter 4. Peer relationships and social motivational processes / Kathryn R. Wentzel, Alice Donlan, and Danette Morrison
• Chapter 5. Children's achievement-related discourse with peers: Uncovering the processes of peer influence / Ellen Rydell Altermatt
• Chapter 6. Popularity and school adjustment / Antonius H. N. Cillessen and Yvonne H. M. van den Berg
• Chapter 7. Social achievement goals and adjustment at school during early adolescence / Allison M. Ryan, Rhonda S. Jamison, Huiyoung Shin, and Geneene N. Thompson
• Part II. Practices and interventions that support positive peer relationships at school
• Chapter 8. Teachers as managers of students' peer context / Jan N. Hughes
• Chapter 9. Peer cultures of academic effort and achievement in adolescence: Why they matter, and what teachers can do about them / Jill V. Hamm, Abigail Hoffman, and Thomas W. Farmer
• Chapter 10. The coping power program for at-risk aggressive students / John E. Lochman, Caroline Boxmeyer, Nicole Powell, Joan Barth, and Edward D. Barker
• Chapter 11. Kiva anti-bullying program: Implications for school adjustment / Christina Salmivalli, Claire F. Garandeau, and René Veenstra.