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Coming of Age the RITE Way
Coming of Age the RITE Way: Youth & Community Development through Rites of Passage addresses the absence of community-oriented rites of passage. This book is distinguished from others in that it combines almost fifty years of scholarship and practice to examine the concepts of rites of passage and sense of community, as it exists in literature and life. It focuses on the reciprocal relationship between rites of passage and sense of community and ways for it to impact the development of children and the health and adaptability of their community. This text raises and answers some of the most fundamental questions facing parents, schools and communities; How do we raise our children to be resi...
Fulfilling the Promise of Children's Services
In Fulfilling the Promise of Children's Services, David Blumenkrantz shares the expertise he has gained helping communities across the county to implement his successful primary prevention strategy, the Rite of Passage Experience. Drawing on nearly twenty years of experience in human services, the author reveals why youth service groups have largely been unable to meet their objectives - and he examines what these groups must do to implement and sustain effective prevention efforts. Offering numerous examples drawn from actual practice, Blumenkrantz reveals the essential factors in a comprehensive primary prevention strategy - for example, fostering collaboration between school, community, and families; having a committed core group responsible for implementation; and obtaining the financial commitment of schools and the community. Stressing the need for communities to develop long-term prevention strategies, he examines how quick-fix programs - such as the "just say no" campaign - do little to alleviate problems and can actually hinder proven prevention efforts.
Edges of Africa
Photographs and Essays from East and Central Africa, 1987-1994.
Coming of Age the RITE Way
A unique blend of scholarship and practice makes this book a compelling read detailing how rites of passage are used to link all education and youth development approaches. Eloquently crafted narratives integrating fifty years of practice provide readers with a new paradigm for youth and community development that will stimulate their imagination and impact their own practice.
The Architecture of the Soul
The Architecture of the Soul introduces and maps out a model of the human person that represents a new way of interpreting and treating human—and by extension global—dysfunction. Arising from the transpersonal and integral schools of psychology, this model provides an alternative to the view of the human person as a product of brain chemistry, whose dysfunctional behavior can be treated through pharmaceuticals and traditional psychology. Based on the author's years of clinical experience treating addiction, the book posits a human psyche made up of three zones of awareness. The first two are reached by present-day psychology, focusing on cognitive and affective disorders, and therapies that treat addictive disorders. The crucial third zone, called Tertiary Awareness, is the 'rudder' of the human personality that contains deep bio- and eco-wisdoms that must be brought to consciousness and cultivated. In explaining how to integrate self and spirit, the author demonstrates how people must be made aware of this zone if we are to survive as a species and a planet.
Developing Competent Youth and Strong Communities Through After-school Programming
Noting the renewed attention given to community efforts supporting after-school activities to promote social competence in its youth, this book examines the concepts of play and rites of passage for youth. The book also discusses the contributions of various types of activities on youth social competency, presents a variety of perspectives for engaging youth in competency-promoting after-school activities, and focuses on the community planning necessary to successfully implement after-school programs. The chapters are: (1) "From Idle Amusements to Leisure Activity as Work for Youth" (Thomas P. Gullotta); (2) "The Uses of Theory in Primary Prevention Practice: Evolving Thoughts on Sports and ...
The Rite Way
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Nurturing the Human Spirit Through Character Development in Adolescents
Nurturing the Human Spirit through Character Development in Adolescents was designed to discover and develop the spiritual nature of our adolescents by assisting them in discerning and constructing positive character-building skills. By familiarizing them to their own and other religious beliefs and practices, the adolescents will be able to more easily accommodate themselves to their diverse neighborhoods and schools. By understanding their peers’ religious and social practices, a common underlying tension is removed from their daily lives, enabling them to better learn in an educational setting.
Bibliographic Guide to Education
... lists publications cataloged by Teachers College, Columbia University, supplemented by ... The Research Libraries of The New York Publica Library.
