Mary Agnes Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Agnes Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Agnes |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Functional Roles of Important Nonfamily Adults for Youth
Seeking Social Inventions to Improve the Transition to Adulthood
Social inventions are new ways of solving human problems. This article reports on an action research project designed to find social inventions to reduce structural lag in four programs that support the transition to adulthood of marginalized youth in Latin America. The investigators engaged youth and staff members in identifying important questions, collecting and interpreting data, and using findings to improve their practices. Their issues ali…
Opening Pathways for Vulnerable Young People in Patagonia
New and improved institutions are needed to support the transition to adulthood of vulnerable young people. Existing institutions that should provide that support demonstrate structural lag: they have not adapted to changing circumstances. Action research was conducted in Por un Mañana, an employment training program for low‐income youth and young adults in the Patagonia region of Argentina to explore how to build developmental assets and to over…
A Precarious Passage
Child-only cases,” minors who receive welfare benefits as individuals, lose their eligibility at age 18 but face the same challenges to self-sufficiency as other “emerging adults.” This study examines how 59 youth in 4 New York State communities thought about and prepared for the termination of their benefits. In 8 focus groups and 12 follow-up interviews they spoke of their aspirations for education, employment, relationships with people, and ma…
Community contexts for mentoring
Mentoring programs attempt to foster a relationship that is too often missing from the lives of disadvantaged children and youth. However, in view of both the power and the limitations of mentoring programs, it is important to understand how mentoring occurs naturally. Assuming an ecological perspective, we examine mentoring in four contexts: classrooms, youth development organizations, work and service‐learning, and faith‐ based organizations. A…
Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change
The decline of the socialist governments in Eastern and Central Europe and the resulting political and economic reorganizations of the 1990s provided a dramatic illustration of the far-reaching effects of social change. For those interested in the health and well-being of youth, such instances of social upheaval raise the question of how young people are affected socially and psychologically by societal changes, and whether their development is c…
Schools and workplaces
business partnership. It entails a novel and challenging sharing of responsibility between partners: Both take major responsibility for the education of young people. Inspired by European systems, notably those in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Denmark, youth apprenticeship treats workplaces as learning environments for young people and constitutes an institutional link between education and em
On-the-Job learning
A case study of the implementation of in-school employment and training programs
Britain Fights for Family Life
AMILY life! exclaimed Cecilia, when told her was investigating it as lived under the stress of war. I had almost forgotten that there was such a thing. had spoken to her because her's is one of the happiest and most united families know-a lovely example of the creative association of persons of different ages and interests, each of whom is free while to each the fact of being together means much. Also because it is typical of wartime Britain, in …
Women in Politics
Community contexts for mentoring
Mentoring programs attempt to foster a relationship that is too often missing from the lives of disadvantaged children and youth. However, in view of both the power and the limitations of mentoring programs, it is important to understand how mentoring occurs naturally. Assuming an ecological perspective, we examine mentoring in four contexts: classrooms, youth development organizations, work and service‐learning, and faith‐ based organizations. A…
Functional Roles of Important Nonfamily Adults for Youth
Opening Pathways for Vulnerable Young People in Patagonia
New and improved institutions are needed to support the transition to adulthood of vulnerable young people. Existing institutions that should provide that support demonstrate structural lag: they have not adapted to changing circumstances. Action research was conducted in Por un Mañana, an employment training program for low‐income youth and young adults in the Patagonia region of Argentina to explore how to build developmental assets and to over…
Schools and workplaces
business partnership. It entails a novel and challenging sharing of responsibility between partners: Both take major responsibility for the education of young people. Inspired by European systems, notably those in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Denmark, youth apprenticeship treats workplaces as learning environments for young people and constitutes an institutional link between education and em
On-the-Job learning
Women in Politics
Britain Fights for Family Life
AMILY life! exclaimed Cecilia, when told her was investigating it as lived under the stress of war. I had almost forgotten that there was such a thing. had spoken to her because her's is one of the happiest and most united families know-a lovely example of the creative association of persons of different ages and interests, each of whom is free while to each the fact of being together means much. Also because it is typical of wartime Britain, in …
A case study of the implementation of in-school employment and training programs
On-the-Job learning
Schools and workplaces
business partnership. It entails a novel and challenging sharing of responsibility between partners: Both take major responsibility for the education of young people. Inspired by European systems, notably those in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Denmark, youth apprenticeship treats workplaces as learning environments for young people and constitutes an institutional link between education and em
Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change
The decline of the socialist governments in Eastern and Central Europe and the resulting political and economic reorganizations of the 1990s provided a dramatic illustration of the far-reaching effects of social change. For those interested in the health and well-being of youth, such instances of social upheaval raise the question of how young people are affected socially and psychologically by societal changes, and whether their development is c…
Community contexts for mentoring
Mentoring programs attempt to foster a relationship that is too often missing from the lives of disadvantaged children and youth. However, in view of both the power and the limitations of mentoring programs, it is important to understand how mentoring occurs naturally. Assuming an ecological perspective, we examine mentoring in four contexts: classrooms, youth development organizations, work and service‐learning, and faith‐ based organizations. A…
A Precarious Passage
Child-only cases,” minors who receive welfare benefits as individuals, lose their eligibility at age 18 but face the same challenges to self-sufficiency as other “emerging adults.” This study examines how 59 youth in 4 New York State communities thought about and prepared for the termination of their benefits. In 8 focus groups and 12 follow-up interviews they spoke of their aspirations for education, employment, relationships with people, and ma…
Opening Pathways for Vulnerable Young People in Patagonia
New and improved institutions are needed to support the transition to adulthood of vulnerable young people. Existing institutions that should provide that support demonstrate structural lag: they have not adapted to changing circumstances. Action research was conducted in Por un Mañana, an employment training program for low‐income youth and young adults in the Patagonia region of Argentina to explore how to build developmental assets and to over…
Seeking Social Inventions to Improve the Transition to Adulthood
Social inventions are new ways of solving human problems. This article reports on an action research project designed to find social inventions to reduce structural lag in four programs that support the transition to adulthood of marginalized youth in Latin America. The investigators engaged youth and staff members in identifying important questions, collecting and interpreting data, and using findings to improve their practices. Their issues ali…
Functional Roles of Important Nonfamily Adults for Youth
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (3 works)