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PHYSICAL EDUC..TION FOR HEALTH
Radic Progran

 

March 23, 1939
"Characteristics of the Adolescent Age"
(Miss Ruth Hoover and Miss Joie Stapleton) |

In the field of toacher training in Physical Education, nore time
is being devoted to the study of the child and his needs before
planning the activities for the particular greup to which the child
belongse “onight, Miss Staploton, since most of our students work
with the adclescent, shall we discuss some of the characteristics
of this particular age?

Certainly, Miss Hoover, for unless we understand the adolescont
and the problems he faces we will not be able to successfully help
hime

What do you mean by the adolescent pericd?

Well, Miss Hoover, various terms have been used to describe this

ages Some of them are: awkward period «= silly age -- timo of

storm and stress == gawky period -« greenhorn agee I like to think
of adolescence as the transition period - the period when the individ.
ual changes from childhood into the adult stage - a definite period
of growth.

Those are interesting descriptions of the period, Iiss Stapleton,
are there any problems peculiar to this age?

Yes, lliss Hoover, there arc. Dre Carolyn Hedger of the McCormick
Foundation has made quite an intensive study of Adolescence and
lists the following seven conflicts as being the ones confronting
this age groups

le Family - in some things the youngster is treated as an adult,
yot when he wants to assume the adult status in such matters as
driving a car he is told thet he is only a child.

2 Play - up to the age of twelve, mest of his »lay activities have
con planned for hime Now he must begin to assume responsibility
for his owmm leisurce

3e School = In school he takes up new subjects, finds a new attitude
Qnd 18 put more on his own. The Junior High school is tho shock
absorber for the nore informal organization of the senior high
schoole

4, Church - Interest in the church is at a poak during this period

of Oo child's life.

5. Industry = The protected child does not kxow about this part of
living, but receives an intreduction to it through the vocatione
al subjects.