Alfred H. Kurland Publishes Powerful Thesis On the Urgent Need to Nurture Today’s Teen Activists for the Future of Democracy

In today’s world, there is much concern over how many of today’s teens are being influenced rather than empowered. Thus, experts like Alfred H. Kurland see an urgent need to recognize the potential residing in many adolescents by guiding parents and educators to help them realize it.

In his case, it’s in an ambitious and high-volume work titled The Soul of Adolescence Aligns with the Heart of Democracy: Orphans, Rebels and Civic Lovers Unite.

For over 30 years, Kurland has worked in youth services as a program manager. He has a dedicated passion for helping teen volunteers and their communities. His work earned him the Unsung Hero Award from the Petra Foundation. The models and strategies he shares in his book have seen real-world application in programs such as the Ivy League and Uptown WINS and the Police Athletic League’s Teen Services Department. In this books concluding chapter, Mr. Kurland provides real life models of municipal teen advisory boards, as well as profiling the successful campaign to lower the age to 16 on NYC Community Boards. He finishes with an appeal to have the voting age reduced to the age of 16 for local elections.

Kirkus Reviews offers praise for how his book dismantles the bias of “adultism and contends that it overlooks the many ways in which teens are uniquely constituted to successfully participate in civic affairs: They are brimming with idealism, hungry for knowledge, naturally distrustful of brute authority,
and remarkably sensitive to hypocrisy.”

Reviews from Foreword Reviews also add that the book effectively combines “personal memories with political theories and recommendations for activism, The Soul of Adolescence Aligns with the Heart of Democracy is an ambitious text filled with suggestions for revitalizing democracy by recognizing the idealism and civic capacity of teenagers.”

Overall, The Soul of Adolescence Aligns with the Heart of Democracy: Orphans, Rebels and Civic Lovers Unite presents a compelling resource guide for those studying how best to engage, support, and encourage today’s teens in building their communities. Readers eager to learn all they can from it can purchase a copy on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Alfred H. Kurland also offers more resources and updates on his website at https://www.alfredhkurlandbooks.com/.

The Soul of Adolescence Aligns with the Heart of Democracy: Orphans, Rebels and Civic Lovers Unite
Author | Alfred H. Kurland
Published date | December 5, 2021
Publisher | BookBaby
Genre | Civic Studies

Author Bio
Al Kurland has been a youth services and teen empowerment advocate and program manager since December of 1984. He launched his career with his founding of Southern Heights: Communities Organized for Public Service. This program enlisted teens as volunteers and program advisors. He employed this model with subsequent programs he directed such as the Ivy League/Uptown WINS; The Police Athletic League’s Teen Services Department, and as a lead coordinator for the NYC Teens on Community Boards initiative.

Al has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from York College/CUNY and a Master of Arts Degree in Special Education from New York University. His post graduate education has continued on the streets and in classrooms in New York City.

Al has been honored for his youth advocacy and community service contributions on a national level by the Petra Foundation (unsung hero award) and with a Silver Beaver Award from the Boy Scout Council. He has also been awarded in NYC by the Brooke Russell Astor Foundation (honorable mention for youth and community service; by the 33rd Police Precinct Community Council, and by Community Board #12 of upper Manhattan.

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