Toward Positive Youth Development (eBook, PDF)

Transforming Schools and Community Programs
Redaktion: Shinn, Marybeth; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199716593
• Artikelnr.: 38150349

Autorenporträt

Marybeth Shinn is Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy at New York University. She received her Ph.D. in social and community psychology from the University of Michigan. Shinn studies how social contexts, including social settings, neighborhoods, socioeconomic circumstances, and social policies, affect individual well-being. With anthropologist Kim Hopper, she is using capability theory to understand questions about environments that foster capabilities for homeless and mentally ill adults, which parallel questions in the current book about settings that promote youth development. Other work focuses on causes, consequences, and prevention of homelessness for families and individuals. Shinn was a fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation. She has served as president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the Society for Community Research and Action and received awards for Distinguished Contributions to Theory and Research and Ethnic Minority Mentoring from the latter group. Hirokazu Yoshikawa is Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He studies the effects of welfare and anti-poverty policies on children; the influence of low-wage work dynamics and conditions on family processes and children; the development of young children in immigrant families; and whole-grade approaches to music education. He has participated in multiple Congressional briefings on child and family policy and human development. He has received three early career awards from the American Psychological Association (the Louise Kidder Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Boyd McCandless Award for contributions to developmental psychology, and the Minority Fellowship Program's early career award), as well as the Ethnic Minority Mentorship award from the Society for Community Research and Action (Division 27 of the APA). He was recently a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Family and Work Policies. In 2004 he was awarded a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is editor (with Thomas Weisner and Edward Lowe) of Making It Work: Low-Wage Employment, Family Life, and Child Development (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Marybeth Shinn and Hirokazu Yoshikawa: Introduction
* Part 1: Changing Classrooms
* 2: Robert C. Pianta and Joseph P. Allen: Building Capacity for
Positive Youth Development in Secondary School Classrooms: Changing
Teachers' Interactions with Students
* 3: David B. Henry: Changing Classroom Social Settings Through
Attention to Norms
* 4: Stephanie M. Jones, Joshua L. Brown, and J. Lawrence Aber:
Classroom Settings as Targets of Intervention and Research
* Part 2: Changing Schools
* 5: Rhona S. Weinstein: Schools that Actualize High Expectations for
All Youth Theory for Setting Change and Setting Creating
* 6: Mica Pollock: An Intervention in Progress: Pursuing Precision in
School Race Talk
* 7: Kenneth I. Maton, Freeman A. Hrabowski, Metin Özdemir, and
Harriette Wimms: Enhancing Representation, Retention and Achievement
of Minority Students in Higher Education: A Social Transformation
Theory of Change
* 8: Stephen T. Russell and Jenifer K. McGuire: The School Climate for
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Students
* 9: Laura M. Desimone: Whole-School Change
* Part 3: Changing Community Organizations
* 10: Robin Lin Miller, Shannon K. E. Kobes, and Jason C. Forney:
Building the Capacity of Small Community-Based Organizations to
Better Serve Youth
* 11: Charles Smith and Tom Akiva: Quality Accountability: Improving
Fidelity of Broad Developmentally Focused Interventions
* 12: Paul W. Speer: Altering Patterns of Relationships and
Participation: Organizing as a Setting-Level Intervention
* 13: Min Zhou: The Ethnic System of Supplementary Education:
Non-profit and For-profit Institutions in Los Angeles' Chinese
Immigrant Community
* Part 4: Changing Larger Social Structures
* 14: Richard D. Kahlenberg: Socioeconomic School Integration
* 15: Amanda Datnow: The Co-Construction of Educational Reform: The
Intersection of Federal, State, and Local Contexts
* 16: Abigail A. Fagan, J. David Hawkins, and Richard F. Catalano:
Using Community Epidemiologic Data to Improve Social Settings: The
Communities that Care Prevention System
* 17: Milbrey McLaughlin and Margaret O'Brien-Strain: The Youth Data
Archive: Integrating Data to Assess Social Settings in a Societal
Sector Framework
* Part 5. Cross-Cutting Themes: Strategies for Measurement and
Intervention
* 18: Andres Martinez and Stephen W. Raudenbush: Measuring and
Improving Program Quality: Reliability and Statistical Power
* 19: Hirokazu Yoskikawa and Marybeth Shinn: Improving Youth-Serving
Social Settings: Intervention Strategies for Schools, Youth Programs,
and Communities