They Still Pick Me Up When I Fall : : The Role of Caring in Youth Development and Community Life / / Diana Mendley Rauner.

This book is a call to action to parents, youth workers, policymakers-anyone who works for and worries about the next generation-to recognize and promote the values of caring in public and private life. It is about teenagers-those who no longer need the care given to babies and children but who stil...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2000]
©2000
Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
1. Caring for Our Youth: A Call to Action --
2. The Practice of Care --
3. Mutuality, Trust, and Boundaries --
4. Learning to Care --
5. But What Does Caring "Accomplish"? --
6. Sustaining Care: Caring Schools and Other Organizations --
7. Building a Caring Community --
8. Reinventing Care in Public Life --
Notes --
Selected Bibliography --
Index
Summary:This book is a call to action to parents, youth workers, policymakers-anyone who works for and worries about the next generation-to recognize and promote the values of caring in public and private life. It is about teenagers-those who no longer need the care given to babies and children but who still need support and guidance. Diana Mendley Rauner offers a rare focus on youth development as a process of experiencing care and learning social responsibility. Much public discussion of youth focuses on individual achievement and a limited set of markers of success, on the one hand, and increasingly punitive responses to failure on the other. Missing from these discussions is an appreciation for the importance of caring and social responsibility both in the environments we create for young people and in our expectations of how they should act and what they should become. "They Still Pick Me Up When I Fall" develops ideals for caring interaction, articulating specific behaviors and habits for practitioners as well as policies and practices that characterize caring organizations and caring societies. Each chapter begins with a profile of a youth-serving organization, drawn from the fields of education, youth work, and counseling. Throughout, an intellectual framework for care is interwoven with the voices and experiences of the youth workers and young people involved in the struggle to create a caring society.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780231506175
9783110442472
DOI:10.7312/raun11854
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Diana Mendley Rauner.