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Whether glamorised or stigmatised, teenage parenthood is all too
often used to stand for a host of social problems, and empirical
research results ignored. Identifying core controversies
surrounding teen pregnancy and parenting, this book resolves
misperceptions using findings from large-scale, longitudinal, and
qualitative research studies from the US and other Western
countries. Summarising the evidence and integrating it with a
systems perspective, the authors explore ten prevalent myths about
teenage parents, including: Teen pregnancy is associated with other
behavior problems. Children of teen parents will experience
cognitive delay, adjustment problems, and will themselves become
teen parents. Better outcomes are achieved when teen mothers live
with their own mothers. Teen pregnancy costs tax payers lots of
money. Abstinence education is the best way to prevent teen
pregnancy. Teen Pregnancy and Parenting ends by highlighting the
prevention and intervention implications for families,
practitioners, and policymakers. It will be of interest to
academics and advanced students from a range of disciplines and
professions including psychology, public policy, nursing, social
work and sociology.
Whether glamorised or stigmatised, teenage parenthood is all too
often used to stand for a host of social problems, and empirical
research results ignored. Identifying core controversies
surrounding teen pregnancy and parenting, this book resolves
misperceptions using findings from large-scale, longitudinal, and
qualitative research studies from the US and other Western
countries. Summarising the evidence and integrating it with a
systems perspective, the authors explore ten prevalent myths about
teenage parents, including: Teen pregnancy is associated with other
behavior problems. Children of teen parents will experience
cognitive delay, adjustment problems, and will themselves become
teen parents. Better outcomes are achieved when teen mothers live
with their own mothers. Teen pregnancy costs tax payers lots of
money. Abstinence education is the best way to prevent teen
pregnancy. Teen Pregnancy and Parenting ends by highlighting the
prevention and intervention implications for families,
practitioners, and policymakers. It will be of interest to
academics and advanced students from a range of disciplines and
professions including psychology, public policy, nursing, social
work and sociology.
Rooted in the work of community - school collaborations, this text
focuses on connecting the rigors of the classroom with the
ambiguity of lived community experience. Community-Based
Transformational Learning (CBTL) draws on the increasing evidence
that course-learning conducted in an applied, community setting,
can positively transform students' professional and personal
identity and creates new ways of thinking and working in university
courses and pre-professional experiences. To illustrate the
different ways to successfully implement community-based learning,
examples are provided of experiences integrated in courses across
multiple disciplines across an American university whose mission is
focused on teaching. Topics covered include refugee and immigration
transition issues, incarceration and health needs with
international examples of community experiences from Jamaica, Korea
and Belize. Qualitative and quantitative data depict how these
experiences impact students and each chapter presents how community
engagement has been established as an effective approach in the
different disciplines, including computer science and sports
management. The authors demonstrate how CBTL experiences can be
transformative when students are provided a chance to connect the
academic commitment to community aims, but also provides
suggestions for overcoming challenges and pit-falls in developing
these experiences.
Rooted in the work of community – school collaborations, this
text focuses on connecting the rigors of the classroom with the
ambiguity of lived community experience. Community-Based
Transformational Learning (CBTL) draws on the increasing evidence
that course-learning conducted in an applied, community setting,
can positively transform students’ professional and personal
identity and creates new ways of thinking and working in university
courses and pre-professional experiences. To illustrate the
different ways to successfully implement community-based learning,
examples are provided of experiences integrated in courses across
multiple disciplines across an American university whose mission is
focused on teaching. Topics covered include refugee and immigration
transition issues, incarceration and health needs with
international examples of community experiences from Jamaica, Korea
and Belize. Qualitative and quantitative data depict how these
experiences impact students and each chapter presents how community
engagement has been established as an effective approach in the
different disciplines, including computer science and sports
management. The authors demonstrate how CBTL experiences can be
transformative when students are provided a chance to connect the
academic commitment to community aims, but also provides
suggestions for overcoming challenges and pit-falls in developing
these experiences.
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