A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs

by Gullotta, Thomas P.; Bloom, Martin; Gullotta, Christianne F.; Messina, Jennifer C.; Ramos, Jessica M. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780387799193
• ISBN10: 0387799192
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

School activities alone are not always sufficient to ensure children's academic progress or socio-emotional development and well-being. And the time when many children typically have the least adult supervision-immediately after school-is also the time that they are at the highest risk to act as perpetrators or become victims of antisocial behavior.

Author Biography

Thomas P. Gullotta is C.E.O. of Child and Family Agency and is a member of the psychology and education departments at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the senior author of the 4th edition of The Adolescent Experience, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion, and editor emeritus of the Journal of Primary Prevention. He is the senior book series editor for Issues in Children's and Families' Lives. Tom holds editorial appointments on the Journal of Early Adolescence, the Journal of Adolescent Research, and the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation. He has published extensively on young people and primary prevention. In 1999, Tom was honored by the Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association with their Distinguished Contributions to Practice in Community Psychology Award.Martin Bloom is a retired professor of social work at the University of Connecticut. He is past editor of the Journal of Primary Prevention and co-edited The Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. He has published extensively on primary prevention and its practice applications.

Table of Contents

Social Competency	p. 1
How Development Affects Learning: Lessons Learned from Developmental, Cognitive, and Natural Science	p. 21
After-School Programs	p. 43
Promoting Social and Emotional Development in Childhood and Early Adolescence	p. 63
Mentoring and Its Role in Promoting Academic and Social Competency	p. 79
Service-Learning: Learning by Doing for Others	p. 101
A Blueprint for Promoting Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: The Salmon Program	p. 119
Postscript: A Promising Beginning	p. 223
Index	p. 229
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