A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth [Hardcover]

Barton Jay Hirsch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2005

In A Place to Call Home, Barton J. Hirsch identifies the strengths of after-school settings while challenging them to rise to new levels of excellence. After-school programs have attracted a strong and growing constituency. Parents, educators, researchers, and policymakers are engaged in pivotal debates about how after-school programs should be oriented. Powerful forces are pushing programs to be more school-like and oriented to academic drill. However, A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth provides convincing evidence that yielding to such forces would be tragic, a wasted opportunity.

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I cannot think of anything nearly so rich and rewarding to have appeared on the topic in recent years. Conveying as it does an inkling of the enormous potential of informal education it amounts to a brilliant account of practice and a thorough-going justification for investment in youth work, if not extended schools. --Youth & Policy --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Barton J. Hirsch is professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern University. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 163 pages
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); 1 edition (January 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591472024
• ISBN-13: 978-1591472025
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #434,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The result of research conducted over a 40 year period, June 10, 2005

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This review is from: A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth (Hardcover)

The result of an impressive and accessible scholarship, A Place To Call Home: After-School Program For Urban Youth by Barton J. Hirsch (Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University) is the result of research conducted by the author over a four-year period at six Boys & Girls Clubs located in low-income, predominately minority, urban neighborhoods. This study documents the crucial support that after-school programs provide urban youth with case illustrations, insightful analysis, and verbatim field notes. Enhanced with an extensive bibliography and an index, A Place To Call Home is strongly recommended reading for students of Urban Studies, Child Psychology, Education and School-Age Child Care issues.