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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Practice of Youth Development | |
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| Setting the Context for the Practice of Youth Development | |
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| Social Perspectives on Youth | |
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| What Is Youth Development? | |
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| Goals of the Book | |
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| Youth Development in New Frontier Settings | |
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| The Need for This Book | |
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| The Structure of the Book | |
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| Challenges and Rewards for Youth in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Youth Cultures | |
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| Demographic Profile and Trends | |
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| Youth Development: Origins and Definitions | |
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| The Origins of Youth Development | |
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| A Journey in Search of a Definition | |
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| What Is Youth Development? | |
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| Definitions of Youth Development | |
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| Common Themes and Threads | |
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| An Encompassing and Contextualized Definition | |
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| Youth Development: Approaches and Considerations | |
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| A Review of Approaches | |
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| Cultural Diversity | |
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| The Age Factor | |
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| Gender and Sexual Orientation | |
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| Youth Development and Disabilities | |
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| Participation: Involving Youth in Decisions | |
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| The Place of Prevention in Youth Development | |
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| Youth Development: Principles and Core Elements | |
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| The Importance of Principles | |
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| The Core Elements--from the Physical to the Spiritual | |
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| Youth-Development Domains: Families, Peer Groups, Schools, and Community | |
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| Youth Development and Families | |
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| Youth Development and Schools | |
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| Peer Groups--an Important Domain | |
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| It Takes a Community | |
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| Youth Development: Activities, Settings, Marginalized Youth, and Frameworks | |
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| The Orchestration of Activities | |
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| The Setting--a Border Zone | |
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| Youth Development and the Marginalized | |
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| Frameworks for Practice | |
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| Youth Development: Program Evaluation | |
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| Key Evaluation Questions | |
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| Evaluation Challenges | |
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| Community-based Evaluations | |
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| Results from the Field | |
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| Promising Approaches to Program Evaluation | |
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| New Frontier Settings | |
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| The Emergence of New Frontier Settings | |
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| Defining New Frontier Settings | |
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| The Functions of New Frontier Settings | |
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| Nine Key Principles | |
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| Multidisciplinary Approaches to the New Frontier | |
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| The Historical Involvement of New Frontier Settings and Youth Development | |
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| New Funding Initiatives | |
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| Museums | |
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| Definition and Categorization of Museum Functions | |
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| Historical Mission | |
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| Current Mission | |
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| Youth-development Aspects of Programming | |
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| Major Youth-development Activities | |
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| Libraries | |
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| Definition and Categorization of Library Functions | |
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| Historical Mission | |
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| Current Mission | |
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| Youth-development Aspects of Programming | |
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| Major Youth-development Activities | |
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| Cyberspace | |
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| Definition and Categorization of Cyberspace Functions | |
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| Historical Function | |
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| Current Function | |
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| Aspects of Programming in the Digital Age | |
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| Major Youth-development Activities | |
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| Aquariums, Zoos, and Outdoor Adventure | |
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| Common Attributes of the Three Settings | |
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| Aquariums | |
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| Zoos | |
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| Outdoor Adventure Settings | |
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| Activities | |
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| Drama | |
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| Writing | |
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| Information Technology | |
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| Community Service | |
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| Art | |
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| Mentoring | |
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| Leadership Development | |
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| Career Preparation | |
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| Examples of Programs | |
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| Methodology and Case Selection | |
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| Limitations of Methodology | |
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| The Sites Selected for Case Study | |
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| The Recruitment and Engagement of Youth in New Frontier Settings | |
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| The Importance of Recruitment | |
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| Recruitment Strategies | |
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| The Engagement Process | |
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| Where do We Go from Here? | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Twelve Key Issues and Tensions | |
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| References | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Subjects | |