Barton J Hirsch (53 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Good. In A Place to Call Home, Barton J. Hirsch identifies the strengths of after-school settings while challenging them to rise to new levels of excellence. After-school programs have attracted a strong and growing constituency. Parents, educators, researchers, and policymakers are engaged in pivotal debates about how after-school programs should be oriented. Powerful forces are pushing programs to be more school-like and oriented to academic drill. However, A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth provides convincing evidence that yielding to such forces would be tragic, a wasted opportunity. Through original and provocative analysis, author Barton J. Hirsch describes his research conducted over a four-year period at six Boys & Girls Clubs all located in low income, predominantly minority, urban neighborhoods. Hirsch shows that the culture of the after-school center meets the needs of the urban youth by drawing upon and replicating positive features of the youth's familial environment and peer group. Staff first engage and then socialize youth toward positive identities by means of recreational activities and wide-ranging mentoring relationships. These club environments are repeatedly referred to as a ""second home"" by participating youth and seem to thrive even though formal psychoeducational programs often fail to reach their full potential. After-school clubs offer critical resources to urban youth in their passage to adulthood. A Place to Call Home does a tremendous job of helping us to appreciate this fact. Clinical, community, and developmental psychologists, social workers, youth workers, and policymakers will discover much from Hirsch's analysis, abundant case illustrations, and verbatim field notes as well as fascinating quantitative results describing these successful after-school environments.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. In A Place to Call Home, Barton J. Hirsch identifies the strengths of after-school settings while challenging them to rise to new levels of excellence. After-school programs have attracted a strong and growing constituency. Parents, educators, researchers, and policymakers are engaged in pivotal debates about how after-school programs should be oriented. Powerful forces are pushing programs to be more school-like and oriented to academic drill. However, A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth provides convincing evidence that yielding to such forces would be tragic, a wasted opportunity. Through original and provocative analysis, author Barton J. Hirsch describes his research conducted over a four-year period at six Boys & Girls Clubs all located in low income, predominantly minority, urban neighborhoods. Hirsch shows that the culture of the after-school center meets the needs of the urban youth by drawing upon and replicating positive features of the youth's familial environment and peer group. Staff first engage and then socialize youth toward positive identities by means of recreational activities and wide-ranging mentoring relationships. These club environments are repeatedly referred to as a ""second home"" by participating youth and seem to thrive even though formal psychoeducational programs often fail to reach their full potential. After-school clubs offer critical resources to urban youth in their passage to adulthood. A Place to Call Home does a tremendous job of helping us to appreciate this fact. Clinical, community, and developmental psychologists, social workers, youth workers, and policymakers will discover much from Hirsch's analysis, abundant case illustrations, and verbatim field notes as well as fascinating quantitative results describing these successful after-school environments.…

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Condition: New. This book evaluates new programs that aim to reduce minority youth unemployment by improving high school students' marketable job skills. Num Pages: 204 pages, 6 b/w illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFSP2; JHBL; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320. . 2016. Reprint. paperback. . . . .…

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Condition: New. This book evaluates new programs that aim to reduce minority youth unemployment by improving high school students' marketable job skills. Num Pages: 204 pages, 6 b/w illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFSP2; JHBL; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320. . 2016. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Minority youth unemployment is an enduring economic and social concern. This book evaluates two new initiatives for minority high school students that seek to cultivate marketable job skills. The first is an after-school program that provides experiences similar to apprenticeships, and the second emphasizes new approaches to improving job interview performance. The evaluation research has several distinct strengths. It involves a randomized controlled trial, uncommon in assessments of this issue and age group. Marketable job skills are assessed through a mock job interview developed for this research and administered by experienced human resource professionals. Mixed methods are utilized, with qualitative data shedding light on what actually happens inside the programs, and a developmental science approach situating the findings in terms of adolescent development. Beneficial for policy makers and practitioners as well as scholars, Job Skills and Minority Youth focuses on identifying the most promising tactics and addressing likely implementation issues.…

Condition: New. This book examines after-school programs, exploring how - and why - young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones. Num Pages: 366 pages, 1 b/w illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKSB1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 604. . 2011. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . …

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Condition: New. This book examines after-school programs, exploring how - and why - young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones. Num Pages: 366 pages, 1 b/w illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKSB1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 604. . 2011. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 368 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examines after-school programs in light of their explosive growth in recent years. In the rush to mount programs, there is a danger of promoting weak ones of little value and failing to implement strong ones adequately. But what is quality and how can it be achieved This book presents findings from an intensive study of three after-school centers that differed dramatically in quality. Drawing from 233 site visits, the authors examine how - and why - young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones. The book features engaging, in-depth case studies of each of the three centers and of six youths, two from each center. Written in a highly accessible style for academics, youth workers, after-school program leaders and policy makers, the study breaks new ground in highlighting the importance of factors such as collective mentoring, synergies among different programs and activities, and organizational culture and practices.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 204 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.