Know: The term deficit and resiliency I have heard of them before in a class. The definition of deficit in my own words is a decrease in existence. In this case the article uses the term as a looking into what brings the youth down. What are their downfalls. The deficit approach was mainly used to fix the problem. One program that I have heard of which is the D.A.R.E program that deals drug substance abuse. This program failed because they were trying to fix teens. One of my good friends was part of the program and she would describe the program as overbearing, they were not much of a support system, the program felt like another parental role. The term resiliency I would define in my own words as to bounce back from a situation, recover and looking into the positive. In this article they did they reflected on the resiliency research approach, which focuses on the youths problem and how to help them succeed. Present day I have seen that there are programs that have used this method such as the program called After Zone. This program has different activities that captivate the youth's interest.
Learn: In the Youth Development Guide article I learned the history behind Youth Development. The different philosophies and approaches each organization done to help the youth. In the late 1980s advocates and practitioners began to reshape the services of the youth and redefine success. Reading about the past and looking at present day I started to realize that generation changes and the term success is redefine. I believe that we should adapt to the youth and fulfill tier own needs. Instead of telling them what to do and how do it. I
More: what I would like to know more about different methods and research. The statistics of the two research that were used in the article.
This is not really about knowing more, I do have a comment the term "at risk" is being used throughout the article. In my opinion the term risk seems a dark and negative term to describe the youth. Is there any other word replace the term?

I like how you gave your own example of a program that failed due to the deficit approach. The D.A.R.E program seemed like a good program to help all the youth that had problems with substance abuse and things like that, but it focused on the wrong thing and that's why it wasn't successful.
ReplyDeleteI also don't like the term at risk. At risk for what? At risk for participating in a system that fails them? I know that Corinne had some good replacement terms for "at risk" they are just all escaping me at this moment.
ReplyDeleteI like how you compared Afterzone to the Youth Development Guide. You used Afterzone as a good example/method to show how it helps children/students enjoy different activities. As you compared it with the program "D.A.R.E", I think you show how it did not solve the problems students had such as dealing with drug abuse or only focusing on situations that were bad. Something "D.A.R.E" should have done was look at both the good and bad things and make a comparison to make it more successful. You can learn from what was bad, but the good things helps think about how they did a great job in the first place.
ReplyDeleteHi! Wow I really love how you set up your blog it looks great! I also like that you gave your own example of a program that failed.
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