ABSTRACT
Schooling, using this word in the broadest sense, has been chosen as the focus of this chapter for it is a universal experience of adolescents and has among its explicit aims the personal development of its students. Many of the significant encounters within this context will be individual as schools are sites in which the peers have the opportunity to meet and relate and in which the young may find the adult role models they seek. But the first theme which I wish to pursue is less on these individual encounters than on schools as social institutions.
