Youth participation : improving institutions and communities / , Benjamin Kirshner, Jennifer L. O'Donoghue, Milbrey McLaughlin, issue editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirshner, Benjamin.

O'Donoghue, Jennifer L.

McLaughlin, Milbrey Wallin.

Series:

New directions for youth development 1533-8916 ; no. 96.

New directions for youth development, 1533-8916 ; no. 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young volunteers in social service.

Young volunteers in community development.

Adolescent psychology.

Psychology, Adolescent.

Community Networks.

Human Development.

Schools--organization & administration.

Students--psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Psychology, Adolescent.

Community Networks.

Human Development.

Schools--organization & administration.

Students--psychology.

Physical Description:

123 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Summary:

Youth participation is a key piece of positive youth development, and perhaps the most challenging one. In using the term youth participation, we refer to a constellation of activities that empower adolescents to participate in decision making that affects their lives and to take action on issues they care about. Unlike other practices connected to the youth development approach, such as caring relationships or safe environments, youth participation pushes against long-held, culturally specific ideas about adolescence, as well as institutional barriers to youth involvement. And yet there is a growing effort in youth organizations, community development, and schools and other public institutions to include young people in leadership, decision making, social justice and change, and evaluation. These efforts, which for the most part have been overlooked by academic scholarship, deserve careful analysis and support. This volume of New Directions for Youth Development takes a step in that direction by offering an assessment of the field, as well as specific chapters that chronicle efforts to achieve youth participation across a variety of settings and dimensions.

Contents:

Editor-in-Chief's Notes: The meaning of youth participation / Gil G. Noam 1

1. Introduction: Moving youth participation forward / Jennifer L. O'Donoghue, Benjamin Kirshner, Milbrey McLaughlin 15

2. From assets to agents of change: Social justice, organizing, and youth development / Shawn Ginwright, Taj James 27

3. Youth conferences as a context for engagement / S. Mark Pancer, Linda Rose-Krasnor, Lisa D. Loiselle 47

4. Building young people's public lives: One foundation's strategy / Robert F. Sherman 65

5. Moving youth participation into the classroom: Students as allies / Barbara Cervone, Kathleen Cushman 83

6. Youth evaluating programs for youth: Stories of Youth IMPACT 101.

Notes:

"Winter 2002."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0787963399

OCLC:

51560081