Youth Participation: Improving Institutions and Communities - New Directions for Youth Development, Number 96

Klappentext Youth participation is a key piece of positive youth development. It pushes against long-held! culturally specific ideas about adolescence! as well as institutional barriers to youth involvement. This volume offers an assessment of the field. Specific chapters chronicle efforts to achieve youth participation across a variety of settings. Zusammenfassung Youth participation is a key piece of positive youth development. It pushes against long-held! culturally specific ideas about adolescence! as well as institutional barriers to youth involvement. This volume offers an assessment of the field. Specific chapters chronicle efforts to achieve youth participation across a variety of settings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor-in-Chief's Notes: The meaning of youth participation (G. Noam).Issue Editors' Notes (Benjamin Kirshner! Jennifer L. O'Donoghue! Milbrey McLaughlin).Executive Summary.1. Introduction: Moving youth participation forward (Jennifer L. O'Donoghue! Benjamin Kirshner! Milbrey McLaughlin). There is much to be learned in the emerging field of youth participation. Examining existing challenges is critical to achieve effective and meaningful engagement of young people.2. From assets to agents of change: Social justice! organizing! andyouth development (Shawn Ginwright! Taj James). Youth development strategies can be strengthened by efforts that help youth become agents of change to meet pressing problems in their communities.3. Youth conferences as a context for engagement (S. Mark Pancer! Linda Rose-Krasnor! Lisa D. Loiselle). Youth conferences bring youth from across Canada together to wrestle with social issues and develop strategies for community development.4. Building young people's public lives: One foundation'sstrategy (Robert F. Sherman). Youth are capab le of making a significant impact on problems in their communities and developing a sense of their potential as civic actors in the process-with the right support.5. Moving youth participation into the classroom: Studentsas allies (Barbara Cervone! Kathleen Cushman). Student voices inform us about the key ways that teachers can make their classrooms safe for meaningful participation.6. Youth evaluating programs for youth: Stories of Youth IMPACT. A report written by youth evaluators describes their process and findings. Interviews with youth evaluators and a city department director describe key lessons from the process.Index. ...

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• Authors: &apos, Jennifer L. Mclaughli donoghue, Ben O&apos Kirshner, Ben O''''donoghue Kirshner, Benjamin O''''donoghue Kirshner
• Assisted by: Benjamin Kirshner (Editor), Milbrey McLaughlin (Editor), Milbrey W. McLaughlin (Editor), Jennifer L. O'Donoghue (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2003
• EAN: 9780787963392
• ISBN: 978-0-7879-6339-2
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: J-B Mhs Single Issue Mental He; J-B Mhs Single Issue Mental He
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories