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S3E1: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - The GCSE is misaligned with adolescent brain development

Rethinking Education

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Inventing Ourself in Adolescence

Adolescence is the period of life when our sense of self of who we are under those huge transition. Many adolescents form a sense of who they are and evaluate themselves through the eyes of their peers in a way that they didn't do in childhood. i think that kind of social self is what is really undergoing profound development during adolescence so i think that you know just um mixing areas makes sense from an evolutionary point of view.

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