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Greentown's youth: disadvantaged youth in a development town in Israel

Van GorcumAssen, The NetherlandsPublished In 1984 • Pages:

By: Goldberg, Harvey E..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses an educational project, called 'youthtown', aimed at rehabilitating disadvantaged youth in a development town in Israel which the author calls 'Greentown' (a pseudonym). Various factors affecting the projects are discussed in the text. Other data describe the town itself, including its political and administrative atmosphere, the position of disadvantaged youth in Israeli society and in the context of 'Greentown', living conditions and social adjustments at 'youthtown', counselors and their training, and from a more theoretical point of view, the importance of the concept of culture for evaluation research in education. The term 'disadvantaged', as used by Goldberg, refers to the adolescent population, generally between the ages of 14 to 18, who are school drop-outs, delinquents, poor, and out of work.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Theoretical orientation in research and its results
Life history materials
Cultural participation
Settlement patterns
Housing
Recreational facilities
Social relationships and groups
Towns
Delinquency
Private welfare agencies
Social work
Ethnosociology
Liberal arts education
Adolescent activities
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Israelis
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2005
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Middle East
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Middle East
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
Book
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Social Scientist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
John Beierle ; 2003
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1973-1976
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1948-1970s
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
'Greentown', Israel
NotesAdditional notes
by Harvey E. Goldberg
Private Welfare Agencies (747) used for references to 'youthtown', a form of 'settlement house'
Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-155) and index
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
84242369
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Israelis