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"A foundational tenet of the Out-of-School Time (OST) field is that all youth deserve impactful and engaging learning experiences. That requires that organizations, programs, and OST professionals remain responsive to the emerging needs of their diverse youth population and the communities in which they live. This book illustrates the tensions that arise when organizations and OST professionals try to engage all youth, especially the underserved - when infrastructure, funding, and mindsets have not kept pace with the evolving needs of youth and their communities. The issues raised in this book - funding, outreach, engagement of immigrant families - have yet to be fully explored with an equity lens. Within these broad topics, this book will bring to the surface the equity and access challenges as well as posit solutions and strategies. Each chapter is written from an insider's perspective, by practitioners themselves, who articulate some of the key, and relevant issues in the field. Each chapter ends with a Research-Practice Connection section written by the editors, which discusses the topic from a research lens, and generates a set of questions that can be used by researchers in future studies to explore the topic in a more in-depth, and expansive manner"--

After-school programs --- Social aspects --- Out-of-school programs.

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"In this volume, At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings, our authors and contributors reveal how intergenerational partnerships inspire both adults and youth to bring their best selves to programs. In varied ways, the chapters explore how youth-adult partnerships can enable people and programs to develop toward their full potential, while acknowledging the complexities and tensions of these relationships. Together, the authors in this volume suggest that building youth-adult partnerships expands our collective capacity to achieve transformational change in our organizations, schools, neighborhoods, and communities. This volume brings together the voices of over 50 adults and youth. Each of these individuals have thought deeply and critically about youth-adult partnerships; their unique perspectives foster new ways of thinking about the theory and practice of this work in out-of-school time settings. Comprised of 14 chapters, the book represents a mix of empirical research, theoretical and conceptual studies, and engaged dialogue about the complexities of intergenerational partnership work. Several chapters are co-written by intergenerational collectives of youth and adults, or people who began collaborating with one another in the context of a youth-adult partnership; their essays are a direct reflection of the many opportunities for learning and knowledge-building inherent in positive youth-adult relationships. In addition, throughout the book, we have incorporated short essays, poetry, and artwork by 11 young people who offer insights based on their lived experiences of partnership with teachers, youth workers, counselors, family members, and other caring adults in their lives. Through their varied works of creative expression and storytelling, readers can engage in the practice of listening to the voices of youth and learning from the wisdom they have to share. In addition to providing research-based evidence and participant testimonials that illuminate the promise of intergenerational learning in OST spaces, the volume also responds to key questions that scholars, adult practitioners, policymakers, and youth navigate in this work, such as: What role can (or should) adults play in supporting youth learning, voice, and activism? What strategies of (and approaches to) youth-adult partnership are most effective in promoting positive youth development and organizational transformation? What tensions and challenges arise in the process of doing this work? And what are the pressures of the contemporary era that influence youth-adult partnership in OST today? Through highlighting authentic youth-adult partnerships as a central component of quality youth programs, this fourth volume of the IAP series on OST aims to sharpen the field's understanding of positive, intergenerational relationships-an essential what of OST programming. In addition, it aims to articulate how positive youth-adult partnerships are nurtured, such that educators across school and community-based contexts can better enact context-driven, personalized learning, while also enabling processes of healing, empowerment, and transformation. Out-of-school time programs have the potential to model new paradigms of learning, creating, and being. In these spaces, adults and youth have the opportunity to re-envision learning and build social consciousness without the scripts of the classroom. However, OST spaces can also reproduce the adultism, misogyny, and racism from which youth seek refuge, if these systems of oppression go unchecked. When adults partner with youth in driving the mission, approach, and outcomes of learning, OST settings can become sites of resistance and transformation. Thus, we believe that it is imperative to address both the possibilities and the challenges of engaging in partnership work in OST, and we see these youth-adult partnerships as representative of the work we can do at our best. It is our hope that educators begin to draw more readily from the best practices of the OST field; we believe that the power and promise of youth-adult partnerships can become a foundation for this work"--

Intergenerational relations. --- Teenagers and adults. --- After-school programs. --- Youth development. --- Community development.

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Presents the findings of a broad-ranging literaturereview intended to identify, frame, and assess relevant issues concerningeffective out-of-school-time (OST) programs. Drawing on recent studies theauthors identify and address the level of demand for OST services, theeffectiveness of offerings, what constitutes quality in OST programs, how toencourage participation, and how to build further community capacity.

School-age child care. --- School-age child care --- After-school programs --- After-school education --- Afterschool programs --- Education

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Science --- Technology --- Engineering --- Mathematics --- After-school programs. --- After-school education --- Afterschool programs --- Education --- Science education --- Scientific education --- Study and teaching.

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Schools do not define education, and they are not the only institutions in which learning takes place. After-school programs, music lessons, Scouts, summer camps, on-the-job training, and home activities all offer out-of-school educational experiences. In "Learning at Not-School," Julian Sefton-Green explores studies and scholarly research on out-of-school learning, investigating just what it is that is distinctive about the quality of learning in these "not-school" settings. Sefton-Green focuses on those organizations and institutions that have developed parallel to public schooling and have emerged as complements, supplements, or attempts to remediate the alleged failures of schools. He reviews salient principles, landmark studies, and theoretical approaches to learning in not-school environments, reporting on the latest scholarship in the field. He examines studies of creative media production and considers ideas of "learning-to learn"--That relate to analyses of language and technology. And he considers other forms of in-formal learning--in the home and in leisure activities--in terms of not-school experiences. Where possible, he compares the findings of US-based studies with those of non-US-based studies, highlighting core conceptual issues and identifying what we often take for granted. Many not-school organizations and institutions set out to be different from schools, embodying different conceptions of community and educational values. Sefton-Green's careful consideration of these learning environments in pedagogical terms offers a crucial way to understand how they work. (Contains 17 notes.).

After-school programs --- Learning --- Comparative education. --- EDUCATION/Digital Media & Learning --- EDUCATION/General --- Education, Comparative --- Education --- Learning process --- Comprehension --- After-school education --- Afterschool programs --- History