Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs

by Marybeth Shinn and Hirokazu Yoshikawa

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195327896
• ISBN13: 9780195327892
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.2"