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Zusatztext "Hats off!! The authors have pulled back the curtain to shine a spotlight on what advocates do to move the dial for and with young people in the places where they live. They have parsed the fledgling field of youth development advocacy into precise pieces and given us a multifaceted view of these organizations contexts, dimensions, targets and tactics. As one who has labored in the space between movement and establishment at the national level for my entire career, I found every chapter absorbing and every frame useful. McLaughlin is dead on when she asserts that the real action is at the local level. This is where discourse, by necessity, sheds its partisan, big-claim cloak and gets concrete and specific. This is where advocacy organizations, especially those with finely honed skills like the three organizations profiled, can deftly define effective counterframes, strategically seize political opportunities, mobilize and empower new constituencies and truly measure the impact of their efforts." Informationen zum Autor Milbrey W. McLaughlin is David Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. W. Richard Scott is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Stanford University. Sarah N. Deschenes is Senior Researcher at the Harvard Family Research Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Kathryn C. Hopkins is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Anne R. Newman is Assistant Professor of Education at Washington University in St. Louis. Klappentext This volume examines how organizations advocating on behalf of youth maneuver between grassroots social movements pressing for reform and the established systems of power and authority to improve conditions for youth in urban communities. Zusammenfassung This volume examines how organizations advocating on behalf of youth maneuver between grassroots social movements pressing for reform and the established systems of power and authority to improve conditions for youth in urban communities....
