Toward positive youth development : transforming schools and community programs / editors, Marybeth Shinn, Hirokazu Yoshikawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shinn, Marybeth.

Yoshikawa, Hirokazu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classroom environment--United States.

Classroom environment.

School environment--United States.

School environment.

Youth development--United States.

Youth development.

Educational sociology--United States.

Educational sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

1. Introduction, Marybeth Shinn and Hirokazu Yoshikawa Part 1: Changing Classrooms 2. Building Capacity for Positive Youth Development in Secondary School Classrooms: Changing Teachers' Interactions with Students, Robert C. Pianta and Joseph P. Allen 3. Changing Classroom Social Settings Through Attention to Norms, David B. Henry 4. Classroom Settings as Targets of Intervention and Research, Stephanie M. Jones, Joshua L. Brown, and J. Lawrence Aber Part 2: Changing Schools 5. Schools that Actualize High Expectations for All Youth Theory for Setting Change and Setting Creating, Rhona S.

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 ... [et al.]

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045001-0

1-281-52920-6

9786611529208

0-19-971659-5

OCLC:

476246394