Programs would have been unthinkable without a constituency of dependent adolescents in need of recreation; yet the boys’ sensitivity to age differences made them hard to hold. Pervasive age grading had reoriented the issue between adults and boys; instead of a few convulsive struggles for autonomy, there were endless little tests along a finely calibrated course. The boys wanted more tokens of maturity, yet had no intention of demanding total independence. Adults wanted to hold the boys back but not to cripple their initiative.

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• Person: Mark Smith Organization: infed.org
  Developing youth work: Chapter 5 - Beyond social education

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• Developing youth work: Chapter 5 - Beyond social education infed.org Mark Smith · infed.org via serper

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