Promoting Adolescent Development in Community Context: Challenges To Scholars, Nonprofit Managers, and Higher Education. A Special Issue of applied Developmental Science - Softcover

9780805897500: Promoting Adolescent Development in Community Context: Challenges To Scholars, Nonprofit Managers, and Higher Education. A Special Issue of applied Developmental Science

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ISBN 10: 080589750X ISBN 13: 9780805897500

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

The scholarships of discovery (empirical research) and application (community-based practice) are alone insufficient in creating the types of valid and relevant information necessary to understand and promote youth development as it occurs in community context. Discovery and application need to be complemented by the scholarship of integration--scholarship that brings together research and practice not only in terms of purpose and content but also method and process, to construct shared knowledge and understanding. Based on this premise and consistent with the mission of Applied Developmental Science, the editors hope to contribute to the field of positive youth development by highlighting knowledge about the ecology of adolescent development, as well as interest and commitment among researchers and practitioners to work together.

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This work explores the promotion of adolescent development in a community context. It covers such topics as the integration of research and practice to strengthen communities for adolescent development, youth-adult partnerships, and where youth-work preparation meets higher education.

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