Analyzing Keifer and Ellerbocks Report Titled Caring and Fun (Term Paper Sample)

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Analyzing a Qualitative Research Report
Keifer and Ellerbock’s report titled “Caring and Fun: Fostering an adolescent-centered community within an interdisciplinary team” describes the stages of promoting community development-oriented educational growth among adolescents in middle-level school. The report discusses how a multidisciplinary team of educators would assist rebellious teens in middle-level American schooling to development attitudes aimed at both academic and community-based development.
The article by Sarah Keifer and Cherryl Ellerbock would help professionals in higher education to develop a keener insight into motivating adolescents to impact the community as they seek personal development. Adolescents in middle school present a huge challenge to educators due to their social, biological, and academic development all taking place at once in the confines of a judgmental community (Ellerbock & Kiefer, 2014). These adolescents develop rebellious tendencies aimed at personal protection as they develop attitudes and opinions towards various aspects of the community in which they live. Therefore, Keifer and Ellerbock's report, which details the process of fostering community-based development attitudes in these young minds, might be useful for professionals in higher education who have to deal with various negative attitudes formed during middle-level school by these teenagers when they reach higher levels of education.
Additionally, Ellerbock and Keifer detail how interdisciplinary teams of educators fostered positive attitudes in the adolescents by facilitating social and academic growth that considered fun and care aspects of growth. By altering such growth to reflect the needs of teens who have different needs to those of younger children or adults, the team optimized their social and academic growth thus empowering the...