Toward Positive Youth Development

NOTE EDITORE

Social settings have enormous power to promote or hinder positive youth development. Researchers and practitioners know a great deal about features of schools and programs for youth that affect development, but much less about how to transform settings to bring about these desirable features. This book shows how to harness the power of settings. It shifts the debate from simply enhancing youth outcomes at the individual level to improving the settings of youths' daily lives. The book offers researchers and practitioners blueprints for creating and changing influential settings including classrooms, schools, universities, out-of-school time programs, ethnic systems of supplementary education, and other community-based programs. Leading scholars in psychology, education, human development, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, and public policy discuss a wide array of social change strategies, and describe how to measure key features of settings as a target and guide for change. The authors also demonstrate how larger social structures - such as school districts, community coalitions, community data resources - can support change. Many of the chapters describe ways to make settings work for all youth, including those marginalized by reason of race, ethnicity, social class, or sexual orientation. Toward Positive Youth Development will guide researchers, educators, administrators and policy makers to improve schools and youth programs for all of America's youth.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction2 - Building Capacity for Positive Youth Development in Secondary School Classrooms: Changing Teachers' Interactions with Students3 - Changing Classroom Social Settings Through Attention to Norms4 - Classroom Settings as Targets of Intervention and Research5 - Schools that Actualize High Expectations for All Youth Theory for Setting Change and Setting Creating6 - An Intervention in Progress: Pursuing Precision in School Race Talk7 - Enhancing Representation, Retention and Achievement of Minority Students in Higher Education: A Social Transformation Theory of Change8 - The School Climate for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Students9 - Whole-School Change10 - Building the Capacity of Small Community-Based Organizations to Better Serve Youth11 - Quality Accountability: Improving Fidelity of Broad Developmentally Focused Interventions12 - Altering Patterns of Relationships and Participation: Organizing as a Setting-Level Intervention13 - The Ethnic System of Supplementary Education: Non-profit and For-profit Institutions in Los Angeles' Chinese Immigrant Community14 - Socioeconomic School Integration15 - The Co-Construction of Educational Reform: The Intersection of Federal, State, and Local Contexts16 - Using Community Epidemiologic Data to Improve Social Settings: The Communities that Care Prevention System17 - The Youth Data Archive: Integrating Data to Assess Social Settings in a Societal Sector Framework18 - Measuring and Improving Program Quality: Reliability and Statistical Power19 - Improving Youth-Serving Social Settings: Intervention Strategies for Schools, Youth Programs, and Communities

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780195327892
• Dimensioni: 163 x 33.0 x 234 mm Ø 723 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 15 line illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 400