Third Chapter
Passion, Risk and Adventure in the 25 years after 50
Published on 22. December 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-374-53221-5 (ISBN)
Description
It's this process of creative reinvention that the renowned sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot details in The Third Chapter, which redefines our views about the casualties and opportunities of aging. She challenges the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing how the years between fifty and seventy-five may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in our lives, tracing the ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learning inspire individual growth and cultural transformation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
432 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-374-53221-5 (9780374532215)
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Person
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard and the chair of the board of the MacArthur Foundation. As a sociologist, she examines the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, socialization within families and communities, and the relationships between culture and learning styles. She is the author of Exit and The Third Chapter.