Question

essays on valuable education for adolescence.

Answer 1

Adolescence is the period between childhood and adulthood. But finding a useful definition of adolescence is difficult. Biologically it is the time of sexual maturationand the completion of growth. More than mere biology, adolescence is psychologically the period betweenchildhood dependency and being a functionally independent autonomous adult. Theorists have viewed adolescence in different ways; Freud saw adolescence as the period of recapitulation of the childhood Oedipal complex, while Erickson claimed that the struggle between Identity and Role Confusion typified the adolescent stage of development.

Chronological definitions abound and are more pragmatic in allowing us to identify who is or is not an ‘adolescent’. Let us interrogate the concept of adolescence itself, which contrasts and connects—etymologically as well as socially—with adulthood. Adultum is the past participle of the Latin verbadolescere “to grow (up).” The senses of growth, transition, and incompleteness are therefore historically embedded inadolescent, while adult indicates both completion and completeness