Evaluating Civic Youth Work (eBook, PDF)

Illustrative Evaluation Designs and Methodologies for Complex Youth Program Evaluations
Redaktion: Velure Roholt, Ross; Baizerman, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Youth civic engagement efforts have become common across the globe. With the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many have turned to civic engagement methodologies to create opportunities for young people to have a voice in decisions that affect them. With the dissemination of youth civic engagement practice, there is a need to evaluate these efforts to satisfy funders, stakeholders, and participants. As a social innovation, youth civic engagement efforts present unique issues to evaluation and invite innovative and participatory evaluation designs. This volume brings together experienced evaluators, evaluation and youth civic engagement scholars, and civic youth workers to inform evaluation designs for youth civic engagement practice and programs. The book uses the US Center for Disease Control's framework for evaluation process, and explores issues, questions, and choices an evaluator can make when designing an evaluation of youth civic engagement practices. The heart of the book includes case studies written by professional evaluators, evaluation and youth scholars, and youth workers to define issues for each stage and provide guidance for others who want to design a robust, rigorous, and responsive evaluation for youth civic engagement initiatives and practices. The final chapters of the book provide straightforward and clear guidance for beginning to intermediate evaluators when designing and conducting evaluation studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190883843
• Artikelnr.: 54559995

Autorenporträt

Michael Baizerman, PhD, MS, MS, is Professor and Director, Youth Studies, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, and Adjunct Professor of Youth Development Leadership, University of Minnesota. He has taught in Youth Studies since 1972 and also carried out community-consultation on youthwork and youth studies locally and internationally. He has published widely in youthwork and youth studies and extensively in program evaluation. Ross VeLure Roholt, PhD, MSW, is Assistant Professor, Youth Studies, School of Social Work, and University of Minnesota. Before joining the Youth Studies faculty, Dr. VeLure Roholt worked for two years in Belfast, Northern Ireland on issues around youth civic engagement and youthwork practice. He has consulted both locally and internationally on youthwork practice,especially in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine territories. Currently he is developing a youthwork practice, Civic Youthwork, and also continues to consult with youth organizations and groups in Jordan and Morocco around this youthwork practice.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Michael Baizerman and Ross VeLure Roholt
* Chapter 1: Evaluating Civic Youth Work: Explicating Evaluation
Perspectives, Questions, Issues, and Choices
* Michael Baizerman and Ross VeLure Roholt
* Section 1
* Engage Stakeholders
* Chapter 2: Evaluating Youth Civic Engagement: Ask the Youth!
* Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca Timmermans
* Section 2
* Describe Program
* Chapter 3: Using Action-Based Research with Civic Youth Work to
Enhance Program Quality
* Brian Hubbard
* Chapter 4: Evaluating Young People's Civic Agency
* Harry Boyte
* Section 3
* Focus Evaluation Design
* Chapter 5: A Schematic Fantasy Evaluation Plan for Public
Achievement, Northern Ireland
* Michael Baizerman
* Section 4
* Gather Credible Evidence
* Chapter 6: Engaging the Whole Community to Assess Civic Engagement of
Youth
* Robert Shumer, Shang Lifu, Xu Huiying, Tong Xing, and Shi Pian
* Section 5
* Justify Conclusions
* Chapter 7: Evaluation of Wimps: A Case Study of Civic Youth Work
Evaluation
* Paul Mattessich, Cherylynn Bassani, and Paul Smyth
* Section 6
* Use and Share Lessons Learned
* Chapter 8: School Meeting Structures as Forms of Civic Engagement and
School Evaluation
* Terrance Kwame-Ross
* Section 7
* Conclusions
* Chapter 9: Designing Youth Civic Engagement and Civic Youth Work
Evaluations
* Ross VeLure Roholt and Michael Baizerman
* Chapter 10: Evaluation Practice to Enhance Civic Youth Work and Youth
Civic Engagement
* Ross VeLure Roholt and Michael Baizerman
* Chapter 11: Alternative Frameworks for Evaluating Complex Youth Civic
Engagement Programs
* Charmagne Campbell-Patton
* References