Toward Positive Youth Development Transforming Schools and Community Programs

Name: Toward Positive Youth Development Transforming Schools and Community Programs
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ISBN: 9780195327892

ISBN-10: 0195327896

ISBN-13: 9780195327892

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marybeth Shinn, Hirokazu Yoshikawa

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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…

Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/10/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.45" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

John Whelen is a tudor and research assistant in the faculty of education at Monash University, Australia.




Introduction




Changing Classrooms



Building Capacity for Positive Youth Development in Secondary School Classrooms: Changing Teachers' Interactions With Students




Changing Classroom Social Settings Through Attention to Norms




Classroom Settings as Targets of Intervention and Research




Changing Schools



Schools That Actualize High Expectations for All Youth: Theory for Setting Change and Setting Creation




An Intervention in Progress: Pursuing Precision in School Race Talk




Enhancing Representation, Retention, and Achievement of Minority Students in Higher Education: A Social Transformation Theory of Change




The School Climate for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Students




Whole-School Change




Changing Community Organizations



Building the Capacity of Small Community-Based Organizations to Better Serve Youth




Quality Accountability: Improving Fidelity of Broad Developmentally Focused Interventions




Altering Patterns of Relationship and Participation: Youth Organizing as a Setting-Level Intervention




The Ethnic System of Supplementary Education: Nonprofit and For-Profit Institutions in Los Angeles' Chinese Immigrant Community




Changing Larger Social Structures



Socioeconomic School Integration




The Co-Construction of Educational Reform: The Intersection of Federal, State, and Local Contexts




Using Community Epidemiologic Data to Improve Social Settings: The Communities That Care Prevention System




The Youth Data Archive: Integrating Data to Assess Social Settings in a Societal Sector Framework




Cross-Cutting Themes: Strategies for Measurement and Intervention



Measuring and Improving Program Quality: Reliability and Statistical Power




Improving Youth-Serving Social Settings: Intervention Goals and Strategies for Schools, Youth Programs, and Communities



Contributors


Index