After-school worlds
Subtitle: creating a new social space for development and learning
By: Gil G. Noam, issue editor
Contributors: Noam, Gil G
Series: New directions for youth development -- no. 101
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Student activities; Students -- Services for; Social interaction in adolescence; Community and school; Youth development; School-age child care
Description: "This issue of New Directions for Youth Development explores the social, emotional, academic, and psychological benefits of after-school programs. It showcases a variety of large-scale policy initiatives, effective institutional collaborations, and innovative programming options that produce high-quality environments in which young people are realizing their potential. The volume underscores the conditions - from fostering interagency partnerships, to structuring organized out-of-school-time activities, to encouraging staff-student relationships - that lay the groundwork for positive youth development after school. At the same time, these examples illuminate the challenges for policymakers, researchers, and educators to redefine the field of afterschool as a whole, including the search for a shared lexicon, the push to preserve the character of after-school as an intermediary space, and the need to create and further programs that are grounded in reliable research and that demonstrate success."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Spring 2004."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Remarks; title: Blurring the lines for learning: the role of out-of-school programs as complements to formal learning; title: Out of school-hours learning in the United Kingdom; title: After-school as intermediary space: theory and typology of partnerships; title: Processes of adjustment in organized out-of-school activities: opportunities and risks; title: The critical ingredient: caring youth-staff relationships in after-school settings