After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development
Integrating Research into Practice and Policy, Volume 1
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Beschreibung
The first volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference about how after-school programs may be implemented to promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. This volume reviews the importance of after-school programs for PYD and discusses key components of effective after-school programs. It also discusses issues related to the evaluation and measurement of quality in after-school programs. In addition, the brief presents suggestions for how researchers, policy makers, and practitioners can move the field forward and maximize the potential of after-school time and programs for promoting positive youth development for children and adolescents.
Topics featured in this brief include:
- The history of the relationship between after-school programs and positive youth development.
- Specific features of programs that are important for advancing positive youth development.
- Issues in and approaches to measuring quality in after-school programs.
- The Quality, Engagement, Skills, Transfer (QuEST) model and its use for measuring effective after-school programs.
- A case study evaluation of the Girls on the Run program.
Explores the ways in which after-school programs may promote positive youth development (PYD) Addresses key components of effective after-school programs Measures outcomes and quality of after-school programs Offers strategies for maximizing the potential of after-school time and programs to promote positive youth development for all children and adolescents Recommends directions for future research, practice, and policy Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Nancy L. Deutsch
Themen in »After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development«
Academic achievement and after-school programs After-school program evaluation After-school programs and positive youth development Child development and after-school programs Cognitive development and after-school programs Education policy and after-school programs Extended learning and after-school programs Leadership and after-school programs Out-of-school time and activities Participation and after-school programs Peer relationships and after-school programs Program quality and after-school activities PYD and after-school activities PYD and education policy and politics Skill development and transfer and after-school programs
Stimmen zu »After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development«
“In After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development, editor Nancy Deutsch and her colleagues provide an overview of current research, practice, and policy on PYD … . appropriate for those who are involved in developing, implementing, researching, evaluating, or funding these programs for youth. This audience may include researchers, practitioners, educators, program developers, funders, and policy makers. … content certainly spans education, psychology, public policy, and leadership fields, and within psychology, there are clear connections to developmental and educational psychology.” (Michelle Stroffolino Schmidt, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (50), December, 2017)
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