Netflix's Adolescence prompts important conversations around social media, cultural issues

Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Sounds an Alarm on Troubled Teens. What Can Teachers Do?

The popular Netflix series "Adolescence" raises questions about what schools can do for troubled teens.

What Netflix’s Hit Show ‘Adolescence’ Gets Wrong About Toxic Masculinity

Source link If you keep up with the intersection of politics and pop culture like I do, you can’t have missed hearing about a recent British drama that was the most-watched show on Netflix worldwide, and that became a surprising flashpoint of controversy. Podcasters, politicians and pundits from National Public Radio to the Daily

A mother of Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône) wrote to the Minister of National Education, Élisabeth Borne, and launched a petition for this series to be broadcast in colleges and high schools. More than 17,700 people have already signed it.

Great work is done by the producers of the Adolescence miniseries, presented on the Netflix platform: in four chapters, we are deeply and relentlessly immersed in the world of adolescents and their main ecosystems: the family ecosystem, the school ecosystem and the digital ecosystem, as well as the complex internal configuration of the adolescent protagonist himself, who murders a schoolmate with a knife. Thus, a necessary questioning is mobiliz…

Netflix’s Adolescence Speaks Directly to Parents’ Fears

There sure are a lot of TVs in the second episode of Netflix’s terrifying and terrified miniseries Adolescence. A teen girl, Katie, has been stabbed to death in a parking lot next to a playground. It’s not a mystery. The police know who did it. The murderer is Jamie, a diminutive, sweet-faced 13-year-old boy from a good family, and the cops have him in custody. What the police don’t know is why. After a kinetic first episode that follows Jamie’s…

Netflix’s Adolescence tackles tough teenage issues, but is it right for classrooms?

As Downing Street hails the hit drama’s impact and plans school screenings, psychologists warn it may do more harm than good in the classroom - Anadolu Ajansı