Civic Youth Work

Author : Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190883843

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Evaluating Civic Youth Work by Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman Pdf

Youth civic engagement efforts have become common across the globe. With the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many have turned to civic engagement methodologies to create opportunities for young people to have a voice in decisions that affect them. With the dissemination of youth civic engagement practice, there is a need to evaluate these efforts to satisfy funders, stakeholders, and participants. As a social innovation, youth civic engagement efforts present unique issues to evaluation and invite innovative and participatory evaluation designs. This volume brings together experienced evaluators, evaluation and youth civic engagement scholars, and civic youth workers to inform evaluation designs for youth civic engagement practice and programs. The book uses the US Center for Disease Control's framework for evaluation process, and explores issues, questions, and choices an evaluator can make when designing an evaluation of youth civic engagement practices. The heart of the book includes case studies written by professional evaluators, evaluation and youth scholars, and youth workers to define issues for each stage and provide guidance for others who want to design a robust, rigorous, and responsive evaluation for youth civic engagement initiatives and practices. The final chapters of the book provide straightforward and clear guidance for beginning to intermediate evaluators when designing and conducting evaluation studies.

Author : Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman,R. W. Hildreth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0190616415

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Civic Youth Work by Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman,R. W. Hildreth Pdf

How can we better organize and support youth in their contribution to public life? Ross VeLure Roholt, Michael Baizerman, and Roudy W. Hildreth have developed this book to help practitioners and educators who work with youth look at young people in a framework that is qualitatively different. This book explores the idea of youth not only as a developmental stage but also as having a purposeful social role within civic life. This text presents co-creation as a form of direct youth work practice that invites youth to become actively involved in their communities as citizens, collaborating with youth workers to create and sustain safe spaces for civic engagement. The book's contributors show how adults who work with youth can promote a democratic environment where youth can discuss, engage, and act on issues that matter to them. This book provides concrete case studies of civic youth workers and participating youth creating spaces for the civic and political development of young people in places that lack a social expectation of young people contributing to public life. From developing strategies for conflict reduction in Africa to mending the religious divide in Northern Ireland, the examples describe how to coordinate, support, and manage programs and initiatives with young people that can effect positive change on a global scale.

Author : Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman,R. W. Hildreth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781317993537

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Becoming Citizens by Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman,R. W. Hildreth Pdf

The decreasing rate of involvement in organized groups and with voting by young people is a disturbing trend that perhaps can be turned around. Becoming Citizens: Deepening the Craft of Youth Civic Engagement brings together civic education, experiential education, and political theory to provide a revealing multiple-perspective examination of the new alternative way of practice in the youth work field called civic youth work. This helpful resource bridges the theory of civic engagement with education, ground both in extensive data, and then discuss various youth civic engagement initiatives that battle apathy and effectively invite expanded involvement by young people. This title examines three different youth civic engagement initiatives, Public Achievement (PA), Youth in Government (YIG), and Youth Science Center (YSC). The book then discusses the initiatives from various perspectives, including the academic perspectives of educational theory, political theory, theories of youth, and vocation. This unique source offers multiple points-of-view and is designed to enrich both the theoretical and practical for practitioners and scholars—and provides a revealing and useful look at the available sources. This book is a valuable resource for secondary social studies teachers; school district curriculum coordinators; youth workers; university faculty in political theory, democratic theory, youth studies, child and youth care, recreational studies, public health, education, and social work; youth and community organizers; and program directors and managers in community-based youth services. This book was published as a special issue of Child and Youth Services.

Author : Ross VeLure Roholt,Michaėl Beizerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1453911138

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Author : Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman
Publisher : Counterpoints Primers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political participation
ISBN : 1433118815

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Civic Youth Work Primer by Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman Pdf

Using their U.S. and international experience, the authors discuss civic youth work touchstones, promising practices, and activities. A substantive bibliography lists the sources on the subject of civic youth work and provides links to scholarly work for researchers and practitioners to effectively support youth involvement in community, social, and political development.

Author : Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190883836

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Evaluating Civic Youth Work by Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman Pdf

Youth civic engagement efforts have become common across the globe. With the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many have turned to civic engagement methodologies to create opportunities for young people to have a voice in decisions that affect them. With the dissemination of youth civic engagement practice, there is a need to evaluate these efforts to satisfy funders, stakeholders, and participants. As a social innovation, youth civic engagement efforts present unique issues to evaluation and invite innovative and participatory evaluation designs. This volume brings together experienced evaluators, evaluation and youth civic engagement scholars, and civic youth workers to inform evaluation designs for youth civic engagement practice and programs. The book uses the US Center for Disease Control's framework for evaluation process, and explores issues, questions, and choices an evaluator can make when designing an evaluation of youth civic engagement practices. The heart of the book includes case studies written by professional evaluators, evaluation and youth scholars, and youth workers to define issues for each stage and provide guidance for others who want to design a robust, rigorous, and responsive evaluation for youth civic engagement initiatives and practices. The final chapters of the book provide straightforward and clear guidance for beginning to intermediate evaluators when designing and conducting evaluation studies.

Author : Dana Fusco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136817601

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Advancing Youth Work by Dana Fusco Pdf

This path-breaking book brings together an international list of contributors to collectively articulate a vision for the field of youth work, sharing what they have learned from decades of experience in the training and education of youth workers. Carefully designed evaluation and research studies have legitimized the learning potential of youth programs and non-school organizations over the last twenty years, and recent attention has shifted towards the education, training, and on-going professional development of youth workers. Contributors define youth work across domains of practice and address the disciplines of knowledge upon which sound practice is based, reviewing examples of youth practitioner development both in and outside of academia. Raising critical questions and concerns about current trends, Advancing Youth Work aims to bring clarity to the field and future of youth work. Advancing Youth Work will help youth work practitioners develop a common language, articulate their field in one voice, and create a shared understanding of similarities and differences. This book is also an invaluable resource for higher educators, researchers, and students involved with youth work.

Author : Dana Fusco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136817618

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Advancing Youth Work by Dana Fusco Pdf

This path-breaking book brings together an international list of contributors to collectively articulate a vision for the field of youth work, sharing what they have learned from decades of experience in the training and education of youth workers. Carefully designed evaluation and research studies have legitimized the learning potential of youth programs and non-school organizations over the last twenty years, and recent attention has shifted towards the education, training, and on-going professional development of youth workers. Contributors define youth work across domains of practice and address the disciplines of knowledge upon which sound practice is based, reviewing examples of youth practitioner development both in and outside of academia. Raising critical questions and concerns about current trends, Advancing Youth Work aims to bring clarity to the field and future of youth work. Advancing Youth Work will help youth work practitioners develop a common language, articulate their field in one voice, and create a shared understanding of similarities and differences. This book is also an invaluable resource for higher educators, researchers, and students involved with youth work.

Author : Martyn Barrett,Dimitra Pachi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429655371

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Youth Civic and Political Engagement by Martyn Barrett,Dimitra Pachi Pdf

What exactly is civic and political participation? What factors influence young people’s participation? How can we encourage youth to actively participate in their own democracies? Youth Civic and Political Engagement takes a multidisciplinary approach to answering these key questions, incorporating research in the fields of psychology, sociology, political science and education to explore the issues affecting youth civic and political engagement. Drawing on evidence that has been obtained in many different national contexts, and through multinational studies, this book provides a theoretical synthesis of this large and diverse body of research, using an integrative multi-level ecological model of youth engagement to do so. It identifies unresolved issues in the field and offers numerous suggestions for future research. Youth Civic and Political Engagement is an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, youth workers, civil society activists, policymakers and politicians who wish to acquire an up-to-date understanding of the factors and processes that influence young people’s civic and political engagement, and how to promote youth engagement.

Author : Catherine Broom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137565334

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Youth Civic Engagement in a Globalized World by Catherine Broom Pdf

In this book, the authors explore the apparent decline in youth civic engagement through research studies conducted in seven societies/nations with varied experiences with democracy. This work is framed within a youth civic engagement model. Each subsequent chapter presents the findings for each nation, along with contextual and historical discussions of citizenship education. This book explores the findings in Canada, England, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, and Mexico.

Author : Martyn Barrett,Dimitra Pachi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429657818

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Youth Civic and Political Engagement by Martyn Barrett,Dimitra Pachi Pdf

What exactly is civic and political participation? What factors influence young people’s participation? How can we encourage youth to actively participate in their own democracies? Youth Civic and Political Engagement takes a multidisciplinary approach to answering these key questions, incorporating research in the fields of psychology, sociology, political science and education to explore the issues affecting youth civic and political engagement. Drawing on evidence that has been obtained in many different national contexts, and through multinational studies, this book provides a theoretical synthesis of this large and diverse body of research, using an integrative multi-level ecological model of youth engagement to do so. It identifies unresolved issues in the field and offers numerous suggestions for future research. Youth Civic and Political Engagement is an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, youth workers, civil society activists, policymakers and politicians who wish to acquire an up-to-date understanding of the factors and processes that influence young people’s civic and political engagement, and how to promote youth engagement. Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Lonnie R. Sherrod,Judith Torney-Purta,Constance A. Flanagan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 935 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470636800

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Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement in Youth by Lonnie R. Sherrod,Judith Torney-Purta,Constance A. Flanagan Pdf

Engaging youth in civic life has become a central concern to a broad array of researchers in a variety of academic fields as well to policy makers and practitioners globally. This book is both international and multidisciplinary, consisting of three sections that respectively cover conceptual issues, developmental and educational topics, and methodological and measurement issues. Broad in its coverage of topics, this book supports scholars, philanthropists, business leaders, government officials, teachers, parents, and community practitioners in their drive to engage more young people in community and civic actions.

Author : Constance A. Flanagan,Brian D. Christens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118288030

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Youth Civic Development: Work at the Cutting Edge by Constance A. Flanagan,Brian D. Christens Pdf

Take a cutting edge look at the civic engagement of young people. Increasingly recognized as an important feature of democratic functioning in communities, it has also become clear that the civic domain is indispensable as a context for understanding human development processes. This volume proposes the following central theses in relation to youth civic development: It is rooted in the realities of young people’s everyday lives. It is collectively constructed. It raises questions about the principles, values, and relationships that bind people together in societies. It raises questions about power and justice. Youth civic development pushes the field to focus on the social issues with which younger generations are grappling and the identities they are constructing—issues that also are shaped by structural inequalities and by the collective actions of youth. The volume builds on themes of agency and assets from the field of positive youth development and points to ways that the critical analysis and engagement of young people in their society can contribute to social change. This is the 134th volume in this series. Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in child and adolescent development. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts on that topic.

Author : Thomas Ehrlich,Ernestine Fu
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761861287

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Civic Work, Civic Lessons by Thomas Ehrlich,Ernestine Fu Pdf

Civic Work, Civic Lessons explains how and why people of all ages, and particularly young people, should engage in public service as a vocation or avocation. Its authors are 57 years apart in age, but united in their passion for public service, which they term “civic work.” The book provides unique intergenerational perspectives. Thomas Ehrlich spent much of his career in the federal government. Ernestine Fu started a non-profit organization at an early age and then funded projects led by youth. Both have engaged in many other civic activities. An introductory chapter is followed by seven key lessons for success in civic work. Each lesson includes a section by each author. The sections by Ehrlich draw mainly from his experiences. Those by Fu draw on her civic work and that of many young volunteers whom the co-authors interviewed. The concluding chapter focuses on leveraging technologies for civic work. All profits received by the authors from the sale of this book will be donated to philanthropic organizations.

Author : Jessica K. Taft,Sandi Kawecka Nenga
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781905432

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Youth Engagement by Jessica K. Taft,Sandi Kawecka Nenga Pdf

This volume critically examines the multiple and contested meanings of ideal citizenship and reveal how children and youth craft active citizenship as they encounter and respond to the various institutions and organizations designed to encourage their civic and political development.