Social change, public policy, and community collaborations
Subtitle: training human development professionals for the twenty-first century
By: edited by Penny A. Ralston ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ralston, Penny A.
Series: Outreach scholarship -- 3.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Human services -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Congresses; Human services personnel -- Training of -- Congresses; Social policy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Congresses; Community and college -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "With Social Change, Public Policy, and Community Collaboration the editors present new and innovative scholarship aimed at changing the character of graduate and undergraduate education in human development-related disciplines, Not merely an academic exercise, the book provides a new vision for reforming the nature of higher education by promoting co-learning and collaboration between universities and the communities they serve.

It is essential reading for anyone concerned with training human development professionals for the twenty-first century." "This volume is derived from the papers and discussions from the Third National Conference on Applied Developmental Science."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.