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They Still Pick Me Up When I Fall : The Role of Caring in Youth Development and Community Life
Overview
This book offers a rare focus on 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. This book develops ideals for caring interaction, articulating specific behaviors and habits for practitioners as well as policies and practices that characterize caring organizations. Throughout, an intellectual framework for care is woven with the voices of youth workers and young people, drawing on six exemplary programs.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780231118552
- ISBN-10: 0231118554
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publish Date: September 2000
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.42 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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