Classroom Question

[lispence]

Hello there, this is a question for my Social Studies classroom, please answer :)

How have the identities of teenagers changed from when you were a teen?

[Old_Geezer]

I don't know enough of today's teenagers to feel confident with a comparison; but I do seem to detect an attitude of one ought to be able the have something immediately these days rather than accepting having to work/save for years to get what one wants.

[Peter Pedant]

I hate it when someone answers with a question
BUT I am not sure what identity means in this context.

as I sit in the library of the college where I do my evening classes
I listen to the teenagers conversing and it really is no different to the steam of inconsequential stupid stuff I was coming out with fifty years ago ( er when I was one)
girlie babble too high pitched for me to hear now
lads - I was playing football on the sideline and you know - if I played a bit harder I would be fitter and that would be really great. and you know the other night I was playing on an all weather pitch and all the lights went off - and then it started raining - and the ref he wasnt much good .... [continues for five minutes]

[it is difficult for me not to go over and say - if you dont stop that I will shoot myself]

[Dinapal]

Nowadays you recognise the ID of a teenager by seeing his plumber's cleavage because his jeans waist band is around his knees and they are unable to ID the forend and aft of a baseball cap. :-)

[Tilly2]

When I was a teenager I talked about boys, dates, food making me fat, clothes, shoes, how strict my parents were, how I was hopelessly in love with so and so, what I watched on the tv, how boring it was doing homework...........etc.

I don't suppose the conversation amongst fifteen year olds is much different now

I don't understand the identity part, so I've ignored that.

[woofgang]

can’t answer until you define identity

[Tilly2]

I think identities is the wrong word. Check with the teacher.

[lispence]

by Identity I mean the way teens see themselves/the way the world views them.

[Tilly2]

In that case, I can't answer that generally, as we all have our individual perceptions of what teenagers are like depending on our experience of them.

[lispence]

I absolutely agree- I am looking for a wide range of perspectives from a wide range of places in order for the students to understand that specifically- that worldviews and perspectives alter the view of the individual.

[mikey4444]

I also don't understand what is meant to "Identity" in the context of this question....far too vague.

[atalanta]

Do you mean characters ? Personalities ? Outlooks ? Attitudes ?