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Reclaiming A Needed Resource: Minnesota's Youth, Minnesota Task Force On Youth Service And Work
Reclaiming A Needed Resource: Minnesota's Youth, Minnesota Task Force On Youth Service And Work
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Report and plan of action to Governor Rudy Perpich
Intergenerational Service Programs: Meeting Shared Needs Of Young And Old, Debra L. Cherry, Frank R. Benest, Barbara Gates, Joanne White
Intergenerational Service Programs: Meeting Shared Needs Of Young And Old, Debra L. Cherry, Frank R. Benest, Barbara Gates, Joanne White
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This society's adolescent and elderly populations share many needs and characteristics. Both often have little access to meaningful social roles. For example, neither is likely to be fully integrated into the work force and, consequently, both groups tend to have high rates of unemployment (Pearl, 1978; Sheppard, 1976). Moreover, their family roles tend to be in transition. Teenagers are ·in the process of gaining independence from their parents while many older adults face changes such as the loss of a spouse or decreased family power relative to their middle-aged children. The lack of meaningful social roles has been blamed for …
A Meta-Analysis On Experience Based Career Education, Ronald B. Bucknam, Sheara G. Brand
A Meta-Analysis On Experience Based Career Education, Ronald B. Bucknam, Sheara G. Brand
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Our meta-analysis of 80 evaluations of Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) programs shows that EBCE works. Students not only scored significant gains in career, life attitude, and academic skills during their EBCE experience, but they also showed significantly greater gains in all three of those outcome areas than comparison students who received the regular high school curriculum. The positive statistical significance of the findings was so large that we developed a new index, called the "Basic Index of Strength" or the BIS, in order to discuss and compare differences in the strength of the findings.
Helping The Community: An Untapped Resource For Troubled Children, Alec J. Allen, Martin L. Mitchell
Helping The Community: An Untapped Resource For Troubled Children, Alec J. Allen, Martin L. Mitchell
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All too often adults have cornered the market on helping. They work within voluntary organizations and church groups to meet the needs of the community. for many this service continues within their jobs as educators and social service providers. Occasionally a place is cast aside for youth to participate. The challenge becomes how to involve troubled youth in helping others to reap the benefits popularized in the phrase "It is more blessed to give than to receive." If there is strength to be derived from.giving, then let us be creative in sharing these opportunities with those who have more to …
Youth Socialization Via National Service, Donald J. Eberly
Youth Socialization Via National Service, Donald J. Eberly
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As a frame of reference for this paper, I have chosen the 1977 keynote address given by Harry Silberman to the Society for Experiential Education. At that time he outlined "five major arguments against using work experience as a vehicle for the socialization (of youth) to adulthood."