Jenny Anderson The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better

《The Disengaged Teen》是一本由Jenny Anderson和Rebecca Winthrop合著的教育类书籍，于2025年1月7日由Crown出版社出版。这本书以其深刻的见解和实用的策略，在教育领域引起了广泛的关注‌。

书中，作者们深入剖析了当前教育系统中存在的问题，特别是青少年对学校失去兴趣和感到无聊的现象。他们指出，这一现象不仅影响了青少年的学业成绩，更加剧了青少年的心理健康危机。为了改变这一现状，作者们提出了一系列基于证据的策略，旨在引导青少年从脱离学校到积极进出学校，成为终身学习者‌。

《The Disengaged Teen》被誉为过去五年中最重要的一本教育类英文书籍，其深度甚至超越了Elon Musk推荐的《Bad Therapy》等多部知名作品‌。这本书不仅适合那些追求精英教育模式的老师，也适合那些渴望优秀的学生及其家长。它提供了一个强大的工具包，准确地展示了应该做什么（和停止做什么）来支持青少年的学业和情感发展‌。

书中提到的Four Modes of Engagement是近几年教育学领域最有效的系统性理论和方法，为教育工作者和家长提供了实用的指导。通过这些模式，读者可以更好地理解青少年的学习方式和兴趣点，从而制定更有效的教育策略‌。该书不仅揭示了当前教育系统中存在的问题，更提供了切实可行的解决方案。对于关心青少年教育的人来说，这本书无疑是一本不可多得的力作‌。

书名：The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better

作者：Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop

简介：A powerful toolkit for parents of both checked-out and stressed-out teens that shows exactly what to do (and stop doing) to support their academic and emotional flourishing.

Adolescents are hardwired to explore and grow, and learning is mainly how they do this. But a shocking majority of teens are disengaged from school, simultaneously bored and overwhelmed. This is feeding an alarming teen mental health crisis. As kids get older and more independent, parents often feel powerless to help. But fear not, there are evidence-backed strategies to guide them from disengagement to drive, in and out of school.

For the past five years, award-winning journalist Jenny Anderson and the Brookings Institution’s global education expert Rebecca Winthrop have been investigating why so many children lose their love of learning in adolescence. Now, weaving extensive original research with real-world stories of kids who transformed their relationships with learning, they identify four modes of learning that students use to navigate through the shifting academic demands and social dynamics of middle and high school, shaping the internal narratives about their skills, potential, and identity:

• Resister. When kids resist, they struggle silently with profound feelings of inadequacy or invisibility, which they communicate by ignoring homework, playing sick, skipping class, or acting out.

• Passenger. When kids coast along, consistently doing the bare minimum and complaining that classes are pointless. They need help connecting school to their skills, interests, or learning needs.

• Achiever. When kids show up, do the work, and get consistently high grades, their self-worth can become tied to high performance. Their disengagement is invisible, fueling a fear of failure and putting them at risk for mental health challenges.

• Explorer. When kids are driven by internal curiosity rather than just external expectations, they investigate the questions they care about and persist to achieve their goals.

Understanding your child’s learning modes is vital for nurturing their ability to become Explorers. Anderson and Winthrop outline simple yet counterintuitive parenting strategies for connecting with your child, tailoring your listening and communication styles to their needs, igniting their curiosity, and building self-awareness and emotional regulation.