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A comparative evaluation of the influence the Boys & Girls Club and Keystone Club programs had on alumni in regards to career and life experiencesSwigert, Tamra Ann 15 May 2009 (has links)
Boys and Girls Club kept me out of prison. It kept me focused in school
and on life; and has made me a productive citizen in the society. (Boys & Girls
Club alum)
This qualitative study evaluated and compared the influence of the Boys & Girls
Club and Keystone Club programs on alumni in regards to their career and life
experiences. Data were collected through personal interviews of each alumnus in the
study. Each interview focused on the alumni’s experiences and benefits gained in either
the six core areas of the Keystone Club program or the five core areas in which Boys &
Girls Club members participate.
The researcher asked staff from the Bryan and College Station Clubs to identify
alumni for whom they still had contact information and would be likely to participate.
The researcher then used the naturalistic inquiry approach to gather information
regarding the experiences and benefits of alumni’s participation in the Keystone Club and Boys & Girls Club programs. The sample of convenience included 14 individuals
who had participated in either program in the cities of Bryan or College Station, Texas.
The major findings of the study were as follows: 1) All Boys & Girls Club
alumni and Keystone Club alumni learned leadership skills through their participation in
the programs; 2) All Boys & Girls Club alumni and Keystone Club alumni learned to
interact with various cultures as a result of their exposure to the programs; 3) A greater
number of alumni from the Keystone Club described “goal setting” as a key lesson than
did alumni from the Boys & Girls Club; 4) Alumni from the Keystone Club are more
likely than the alumni from the Boys & Girls Club to give back to their community.
Recommendations for the clubs include the implementation of community
service projects in the Boys & Girls Club program as well as helping youth identify and
set goals. For the Keystone Club program, a Job Shadow Day and a College Student
Shadow Day were both recommended to help students identify future careers and
explore higher education.
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A Qualitative Study: Gendered Perceptions of Bullying among Adolescents at a Boys and Girls Club.Chandley, Beverly Small 07 May 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Bullying is a form of peer violence needing extensive research to help understand the differences in gender for the prevention of such behavior. Most research has been performed in school settings and in a quantitative manner. This study was conducted by six researchers in an after-school facility with a qualitative approach. A minimum of 15 hours per researcher was spent observing behaviors and 20 interviews were performed. A grounded theory approach was used for the analysis of data which tend to show more similarities than differences in the way children bully as well as their perceptions of bullying.
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Finding Where I Am: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction - Creative thesisLloyd, Jana 18 March 2005 (has links) (PDF)
This thesis is a collection of five pieces of creative nonfiction written over the academic years 2003—2005. Creative nonfiction is a genre that, in some form or another, has always existed, though trends in form and style are constantly in flux. Based on the experiences of the actual author, creative nonfiction seeks to present the journey of a mind at work, in a style that is candid, quirky, and insightful. It seeks to persuade its reader by establishing a likeable and trusted narrator; by relating interesting facts that teach the reader something about the subject at hand; and by appealing to the reader's emotions, especially through techniques of metaphor and figurative language typically employed by writers of fiction, poetry, and drama. Thus, it utilizes the three main tools of rhetoric laid down by that great orator of yore, Aristotle; namely, ethos, logos, and pathos.
Rather than exploring one subject in-depth, as is typical of a thesis, this work explores a number of different topics, as is typical of creative nonfiction. The topics include my physical quirks, especially a congenital defect that prevents me from smelling; my volunteer experiences at the Provo, Utah Boys and Girls Club; the traditions of fishing and storytelling in my family; and my burgeoning interest in family history, which was stimulated by a trip to Pine Valley, Utah—a small, rural town in southwestern Utah where some of my early Mormon ancestors settled. The pieces are united more by form than by content, as well as by having been filtered through a single consciousness. Mostly, they are supposed to be enjoyable reading.
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