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Informationen zum Autor Stephen F. Duncan is a professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. He received a Masters degree in Family Sciences (Family Life Education emphasis) from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in Family Studies from Purdue University. He has authored or coauthored numerous outreach publications for lay audiences and professionals, written hundreds of articles for newspaper columns, been interviewed numerous times for television, radio, and magazine outlets, and directed nationally recognized outreach family life education programs. He served as an Extension Family Life Specialist at Auburn University in Alabama for 5 years and held a similar position at Montana State University for over 7 years. At BYU he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in family life education and directs outreach projects for the School of Family Life. He directs the Forever Families website (www.foreverfamilies.byu.edu) and was content director for Real Families, Real Answers, a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award-nominated documentary series appearing on public television channels nationwide. He has certification as a Family Life Educator. Dr. Duncan has actively contributed to the scholarship of family life education, authoring numerous articles on outreach programs and evaluation, many of which have appeared in leading family life education outlets. He serves or has served on several editorial boards, including Family Relations, Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, and Family Science Review. Klappentext Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, the authors of this thoroughly updated edition begin by discussing the foundations of family life education and encourage readers to develop their own outreach philosophies. The book then helps readers learn principles and methods for reaching out to the public and how to form and use community collaborations and use principles of social marketing to promote programs. The Second Edition contains five new chapters on education for personal well-being, marriage and relationship education, parenting education, sexuality education, and narratives of family life educators. The authors' practical, hands-on experience is used to demonstrate how readers can put principles from the latest and best scholarship into action and reinforced with the Interactive Explorations sections throughout. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION 1. Historical and Philosophical Perspectives Defining Family Life Education A Brief History of Outreach Family Life Education Evolution in the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge About Families Varied Approaches or "Roles" in Family Life Education Developing a Working Philosophy for Outreach Family Life Education Conclusion Explorations PART II: DEVELOPMENT OF FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION PROGRAMS 2. Designing Comprehensive Family Life Education Prevention Programs The Science and Profession of Prevention Prevention Education Models in FLE A Comprehensive Model for the Design of Family Life Prevention Programs Assessing Elements of Program Quality in Existing Programs Characteristics of Strong, Sustainable Family Life Education Programs Conclusion Explorations 3. Principles of Program Evaluation Evaluation as Friend and Foe: Stereotypes and Opportunities Establishing the Target: Vision and Goals Developing a Vision Getting Specific: Program Goals and Objectives An Example of an Evaluation Framework in Parenting Education Defining the Kind of Information Needed: The Evaluation Questions The Five-Tiered Approach to Program Evaluation The Logic Model Approach to Evaluation Innovations in Evaluation Using Evaluation Data Conclusion Exploratio...
