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Informationen zum Autor Ross VeLure Roholt is Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, School of Social Work, Youth Studies. He has studied and consulted on youth civic engagement and participatory youth work in the United States, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Palestine and Israel. Michael Baizerman has a long and distinguished scholarly record in the Youth Studies field. As a professor at the University of Minnesota, School of Social Work, Youth Studies, he has written widely on the topic of youth, young people and youth work and has spoken widely on work with youth and youth work professional development. R. W. Hildreth is Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University, Department of Political Science. He too has studied and consulted widely on youth civic engagement, providing technical assistance to youth programs throughout the United States and internationally. Klappentext This book brings together civic education, experiential education, and political theory to provide a revealing multiple-perspective examination of the new alternative way of practice in the youth work field called civic youth work. Zusammenfassung This book brings together civic education, experiential education, and political theory to provide a revealing multiple-perspective examination of the new alternative way of practice in the youth work field called civic youth work. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Locating Youth Civic Engagement 2. Official Programmatic Descriptions 3. Youth Programmatic Descriptions 4. Adult Descriptions of Public Achievement 5. The Place of Evaluation 6. Essential Orientations and Practices 7. Learning and Youth Civic Engagement 8. The “Citizen” in Youth Civic Engagement 9. “I Want to Make a Difference? 10. The “Youth” in Youth Civic Engagement 11. Civic Youth Work
