Changemakers!: Practitioners Advance Equity and Access in Out-of-School Time Programs

Changemakers!: Practitioners Advance Equity and Access in Out-of-School Time Programs
ISBN-10
1641136227
ISBN-13
9781641136228
Category
Education
Pages
171
Language
English
Published
2019-08-01
Publisher
IAP
Authors
Sara Hill, Femi Vance

Description

A foundational tenet of the Out-of-School Time (OST) field is that all youth deserve impactful and engaging learning experiences. That requires that organizations, programs, and OST professionals remain responsive to the emerging needs of their diverse youth populations and the communities in which they live. This book illustrates the tensions that arise when organizations and OST professionals try to engage all youth, especially the traditionally underserved populations — when infrastructure, funding, and mindsets have not kept pace with the evolving needs of youth and their communities. The issues raised in this book — funding, outreach, engagement of immigrant families — have yet to be fully explored with an equity lens. Within these broad topics, this book brings to the surface the equity and access challenges as well as posit solutions and strategies. Each chapter is written from an insider’s perspective, by practitioners themselves, who articulate some of the key and relevant issues in the field. Each chapter ends with a Research-Practice Connection section written by the editors, which discusses the topic from a research lens and generates a set of questions that can be used by researchers in future studies to explore the topic in a more in-depth, expansive manner. Book reviews and associated articles: Afterschool Matters: Practitioners Advance Equity and Access Learning in Afterschool & Summer: Equity and Access in OST Programs

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