TY - JOUR
T1 - What's up? What young teens and parents want from youth programs.
AU - Marczak, Mary S
AU - Dworkin, Jodi
AU - Skuza, Jennifer
AU - Beyer, Janet
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Young teens and their parents clearly state that the "if you build it, they will come" approach, even if it is well built, is only part of the solution for engaging young people in learning opportunities. Interviews with youth and parents explore what they are doing and what they say they want in their nonschool hours. Opportunities that are flexible, less structured, and more leisure-based emerge as priorities. Although relatively content with the options currently available to them, when pressed, youth and families want more connections between people and age groups as well as more of the free-spirited, organic activities likely to emerge in neighborhoods and communities.
AB - Young teens and their parents clearly state that the "if you build it, they will come" approach, even if it is well built, is only part of the solution for engaging young people in learning opportunities. Interviews with youth and parents explore what they are doing and what they say they want in their nonschool hours. Opportunities that are flexible, less structured, and more leisure-based emerge as priorities. Although relatively content with the options currently available to them, when pressed, youth and families want more connections between people and age groups as well as more of the free-spirited, organic activities likely to emerge in neighborhoods and communities.
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U2 - 10.1002/yd.192
DO - 10.1002/yd.192
M3 - Article
C2 - 17361902
AN - SCOPUS:34248401615
SN - 1533-8916
SP - 45
EP - 56
JO - New directions for youth development
JF - New directions for youth development
IS - 112
ER -