Reconsidering Teamwork: Popular and Local Meanings for a Common Ideal Associated with Positive Youth Development

Autor/in	Guest, Andrew M.
Titel	Reconsidering Teamwork: Popular and Local Meanings for a Common Ideal Associated with Positive Youth Development
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 39 (2008) 3, S.340-361 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X06297073
Schlagwörter	Teamwork; Adolescents; Refugees; Housing; Public Housing; Adolescent Development; Foreign Countries; Cooperation; Interpersonal Relationship; Social Behavior; Models; Qualitative Research; Peer Relationship; Angola; Illinois + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Flüchtling; Unterkunft; Sozialer Wohnungsbau; Ausland; Co-operation; Kooperation; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Analogiemodell; Qualitative Forschung; Peer-Beziehungen
Abstract	Although developing "teamwork" is commonly discussed as a goal for youth work, the meaning of teamwork is rarely articulated. Drawing from field research with programs for children and youth in a Chicago public housing community and with a community of Angolan refugee camps, this article demonstrates that teamwork has multiple potential meanings. The popular meaning, regularly invoked in the media, sports, and business settings and often assumed in youth development settings, focuses on efficient productivity. In the two local communities considered here, however, teamwork often meant prioritizing loyal affiliations or hierarchical social order above and beyond efficient productivity. The author concludes that reflective considerations of developmental competencies, such as teamwork, are important for respecting diverse models of positive youth development. (Contains 1 note.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10