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- Volume 30
- Issue 3
- Publication Date: Summer 2007
Social/Emotional Needs: Self-Mutilation and Gifted Children
Tracy L. Cross
About 20 years ago, I came to believe that, while there are many similarities in the development of current students and those from previous generations, there are significant differences in the experiences of every generation of students. More primal than cohort-based experiences of any group are the lived experiences of the individual. Adding to this recipe of difference are the historical ingredients that change over time. Lived experiences will differ greatly among people growing up in different times. For example, growing up in a time of war or peace makes a difference in lived experience. Growing up when advanced technology is manifest in a 4-function calculator or current-day laptop computers makes a difference in lived experience. Growing up when cultural appearance and social mores are transmitted primarily in one’s home or throughout the media makes a difference in lived experience. Growing up when communication among youth is primarily between two friends in close proximity by telephone, or among two people of varying ages who communicate through the computer from locations in different states or even different countries makes a difference in lived experience. Growing up when Americans believed that torture was wholly unacceptable, and a time when the value and support for the use of torture is actually touted by a sizeable number of Americans, makes a difference in lived experience.
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