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Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs.

This shows how to harness the power of settings, shifting the debate from simply enhancing youth outcomes at the individual level to improving the settings of youths' daily lives. It offers blueprints for creating and changing influential settings including classrooms, schools, universities, ou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press USA, 2008.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Changing classrooms
  • Building capacity for positive youth development in secondary school classrooms : changing teachers' interactions with students / Robert C. Pianta and Joseph P. Allen
  • Changing classroom social settings through attention to norms / David B. Henry
  • Classroom settings as targets of intervention and research / Stephanie M. Jones, Joshua L. Brown, and J. Lawrence Aber
  • Changing schools
  • Schools that actualize high expectations for all youth : theory for setting change and setting creation / Rhona S. Weinstein
  • An intervention in progress : pursuing precision in school race talk / Mica Pollock
  • Enhancing representation, retention, and achievement of minority students in higher education : a social transformation theory of change / Kenneth I. Maton [and others]
  • The school climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students / Stephen T. Russell and Jenifer K. McGuire
  • Whole-school change / Laura M. Desimone
  • Changing community organizations
  • Building the capacity of small community-based organizations to better serve youth / Robin Lin Miller, Shannon K.E. Kobes, and Jason C. Forney
  • Quality accountability : improving fidelity of broad developmentally focused interventions / Charles Smith and Tom Akiva
  • Altering patterns of relationship and participation : youth organizing as a setting-level intervention / Paul W. Speer
  • The ethnic system of supplementary education : non-rofit and for-profit institutions in Los Angeles' Chinese immigrant community / Min Zhou
  • Changing larger social structures
  • Socioeconomic school integration / Richard D. Kahlenberg
  • The co-construction of educational reform : the intersection of federal, state, and local contexts / Amanda Datnow
  • Using community epidemiologic data to improve social settings : the Communities that care prevention system / Abigail A. Fagan, J. David Hawkins, and Richard F. Catalano
  • The youth data archive : integrating data to assess social settings in a societal sector framework / Milbrey McLaughlin and Margaret O'Brien-Strain
  • Cross-cutting themes : strategies for measurement and intervention
  • Measuring and improving program quality : reliability and statistical power / Andres Martinez and Stephen W. Raudenbush
  • Improving youth-serving social settings : intervention goals and strategies for schools, youth programs, and communities / Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Marybeth Shinn.