Ruth Garner

Hanging Out (eBook, PDF)

Community-Based After-School Programs for Children

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

There is an unsettledness now in after-school childcare. The stay-at-home mom years are largely over. Will children, even very young children, stay home alone or hang out with peers, risking loneliness or engaging in problem behavior? Will some new form of supervised care emerge? The authors in this collection have spent time in community after-school programs and have learned what happens there.

The authors suggest that after-school programs can be an important part of a system of childcare-as long as we can find ways to build programs for small and scattered populations as well as for densely packed ones, and as long as the money to fund programs can be found. The money is important. Many of the programs discussed in this book are specifically targeted to children from families with low incomes. These are the families least likely to be able to pay for care. A reader leaves this book with both anxiety and hope about the future of childcare in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313011412
• Artikelnr.: 68528746

Autorenporträt

RUTH GARNER is Principal Evaluator of KLICK, a federally-funded after-school program based at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Hanging Out by Ruth Garner An Alternative to Self-Care in a
Small Midwestern Town by Ruth Garner, Yong Zhao, and Mark Gillingham
After-School Literacy Clubs: A Mix of Media, Books, and Desires by Donna E.
Alvermann, et al University Students Promoting Science in the Community by
Susan P. Bruce and Bertram C. Bruce The Persistence of Vision: A Reflective
Examination and Narrative of Sustainability and Fulfillment in a Small
After-School Program by Dean J. Grosshandler and Elizabeth Niswander
Grosshandler Experiments with Design in an After-School Asian Literature
Club by Sapna Vyas and Punyashloke Mishra After-School Tutoring and
Children at Risk by Barbara A. Wasik, Mary Alice Bond, and Annemarie
Hindman Working at Play in Four Chicago Computer Clubs by Ellen Youniss, et
al Cultural Practices in Fifth Dimension Sites Around the World by Margaret
A. Gallego and William E. Blanton Commentary: Ingredients of Successful
After-School Programs: The Experience of KLICK by Yong Zhao and Mark
Gillingham Commentary: Crossing Lines by Patricia A. Alexander and Jonna M.
Kulikowich Commentary: After-School and Structured Activities that Support
Children's Development by Deborah Lowe Vandell and Kim M. Pierce Index