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Enhanced Participation: Creating Opportunities For Youth Leadership Development, Clara Waloff
Enhanced Participation: Creating Opportunities For Youth Leadership Development, Clara Waloff
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Demonstrates how young people in an arts-based after-school program develop leadership.
Changing Through Laughter With “Laughter For A Change”, Laurel J. Felt, Ed Greenberg
Changing Through Laughter With “Laughter For A Change”, Laurel J. Felt, Ed Greenberg
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This paper describes systematic observation, research, and analysis of Laughter for a Change (L4C)’s 2011–2012 after-school improv workshop, revealing the program’s multiple impacts. Our data suggest that improvising creates a “safe space,” a supportive context in which participants feel empowered to take risks and play freely.
Mapping The Social Across Lived Experiences: Relational Geographies And After-School Time, Louai Rahal, Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur
Mapping The Social Across Lived Experiences: Relational Geographies And After-School Time, Louai Rahal, Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur
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This article is divided into two sections. The first offers a theoretical frame that enables key concepts to be defined and discussed. The second reviews current approaches to methodology that enable researchers to study the movement of youth over time and across space in an effort to examine the learning that is occasioned by different relationships. Here, we offer ways to begin thinking about mapping social relationships across lived experiences. The article ends with a brief conclusion, in which we note the significance of documenting the developing experiences of children and youth, mediated by social relationships, and the necessity of …