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The purpose of this chapter is to collate research and theory that can suggest ways of making secondary schools more effective in fostering adolescent development. This purpose assumes that development is the proper aim of education (Kohlberg & Mayer, 1972), but the chapter contains material relevant to the improvement of secondary schools even if one prefers a narrower definition of development than that adopted here or views the schools as having exclusively intellectual aims. I begin by suggesting four contributions secondary schools can make to adolescent development. Then I apply Bronfenbrenner's treatment of The Ecology of Human Development (1979) to adolescence in order to make the case that the school interacts with other environments and with adolescents'
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