They Still Pick Me up When I Fall The Role of Caring in Youth Development and Community Life

Name: They Still Pick Me up When I Fall The Role of Caring in Youth Development and Community Life
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ISBN: 9780231118545

ISBN-10: 0231118546

ISBN-13: 9780231118545

Edition: 2000

Authors: Diana Mendley Rauner

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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…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/5/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 196
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Diana Mendley Rauner is a senior research associate at Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago.



Acknowledgments



Caring for Our Youth: A Call to Action


Finding Words


An Ethic of Care


Beginning the Inquiry



The Practice of Care


A Model of Care: Attentiveness, Responsiveness, and Competence


Care: A Habit of Action


The Cultural Content of Care



Mutuality, Trust, and Boundaries


The Mutuality of Caring


Trust: The Foundation of Care


Boundaries: Protecting Youth and Protecting Caregivers


Care as the Context for Change and Growth



Learning to Care


The Role of Expectations and Social Norms


The Role of Instruction, Modeling, and Competence


Continuity and Turning Points in Development


The Impact of Youth Community Service



But What Does Caring "Accomplish"?


Care as a Protective Factor


Caring in the Classroom


Special Relationships: The Impact of Mentoring


Measuring Care: Valuing the Process



Sustaining Care: Caring Schools and Other Organizations


Providing Care Beyond the Family


What Is a Caring Organization?


Caring by Design: Organizational Practices


Reaching Beyond the Walls: Practices That Create Connections in Young People's Lives



Building a Caring Community


Extending the Practice of Care


Trust as a Moral Source


The Challenge of Caring in Public



Reinventing Care in Public Life


Care as a Social Norm


Opportunities for Caring


Beginning the Journey


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index