Overview
- Examines summer learning through after-school programs
- Offers best practices for establishing different types of after-school programs
- Draws on the experiences of researchers, program staff, and youth participants involved in after-school programs
- Presents case studies of five specialized after-school programs
- Recommends directions for future research, practice, and policy for promoting positive youth development for all
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice (ACFPP)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
Keywords
- 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 education policy and politics
- Skill development and transfer and after-school programs
- Social-emotional skills and after-school programs
- Student engagement and after-school activities
- Summer learning programs and academic achievement
- Youth empowerment and after-school programs
- Youth engagement and after-school programs
- Youth participation and program measurement
About this book
Featured case studies of specialized after-school programs include:
- Richmond, Virginia’s ROSMY.
- The Clubhouse: Where Technology Meets Imagination.
- The Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP).
- Whatever It Takes (WIT) Program.
- UTEC of Lowell, Massachusetts.
After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development, Volume 2, is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development
Book Subtitle: Learning from Specific Models, Volume 2
Editors: Nancy L. Deutsch
Series Title: Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59141-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59140-7Published: 18 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59141-4Published: 06 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2625-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 73
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Family, Public Health