ABSTRACT
This chapter presents important aspects of adolescents’ life in school as well as the importance of school in the life of adolescents. School is a public institution. The public community has set up this institution with the intention of preparing the young generation for adult life within future society. Organizational aspects of schools set the boundary conditions of students’ life in school. Students often feel lost in an anonymous mass and take less responsibility for the whole school and its extracurricular activities. Negative effects of transition from primary to secondary school have been found to be independent from pubertal status. The partitioning of the knowledge body as is especially practiced at the secondary school levels, most often goes along with a disruptive lesson organization. Adolescence is a period during which individuals are confronted with many tasks and during which peer socialization is important, and it is clear that bullying jeopardizes victims’ development.
