YA Textbook Reflection Chapter 6

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Chapter 6: How Do Adolescents develop?
  • Summary: Physical and intellectual aspects tremendously change during the developmental years of adolescents.  The physical change of an adolescent leaves them wonder if they are normal, so it’s important to provide books that assure them through puberty.  The intellectual change goes from concrete thinking to abstract thinking around the age of 10. Concrete thinking to formal thinking makes the change around the age of 14.  So especially in the middle grade books, you need to make sure you are supplying the right kind of books for the type of “thinkers” you have. Is the book abstract? Is it concrete?
The developmental stages according to Havighurst are as follows: Learning to get along with peers. Easy relationship with opposite sex. Working for pay.  Changing relationships with parents. Finding a vocation. Developing morals and values. Adapting to physical bodies. Defining appropriate sex roles.
Moral: Kohlberg’s Theory
  • Pre-conventional: makes decisions based on reward and punishment.  Ex: speed limit signs
  • Conventional: follows the rules of society and/or religion
  • Post Conventional: recognizes the laws but also recognizes that humanity or the life of an individual supersedes the law (civil disobedience). Ex: refusing to sit at the back of the bus.
Young adults also have a needs hierarchy.  It begins with the basics such as food, then the feeling of safety (emotionally and physically).  Love and belonging and the need to be respected is next. Lastly, it’s the need to believe they can be anything they want to be.
It’s important to develop readers.  The hierarchy in developing readers is as follows:
  1. Develops empathy
  2. Unconscious delight: series book readers or serial book readers
  3. Reading autobiographically: mirror reading.  Reading about people like yourself.
  4. Reading for vicarious experiences: window reading
  5. Reading for philosophical speculations: asking morals and values questions
  6. Reading for aesthetic experiences: reading for the wonder of the book.

Reflection/Response: It’s important to take note of all developmental aspects in young adults and to meet them where they are, when it comes to helping them find the right book.  Adolescents don’t just change physically through puberty but intellectually as well. After reviewing the chapter of how adolescents develop, I feel as a librarian, it’s important to meet the needs of my students by starting where they are developmentally, then scaffold their reading to get to a more post conventional thought process from them.  The main trend I’m learning, is to make sure all students from all walks of life are accommodated within your library, have a well rounded selection, and make sure the reading selection is age appropriate for your audience.

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