Toward positive youth development
Subtitle: transforming schools and community programs
By: editors, Marybeth Shinn, Hirokazu Yoshikawa.
Contributors: Shinn, Marybeth.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780195327892
Subjects: Classroom environment -- United States.; School environment -- United States.; Youth development -- United States.; Educational sociology -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Changing classrooms; value: Building capacity for positive youth development in secondary school classrooms : changing teachers' interactions with students / Robert C. Pianta and Joseph P. Allen; value: Changing classroom social settings through attention to norms / David B. Henry; value: Classroom settings as targets of intervention and research / Stephanie M. Jones, Joshua L. Brown, and J. Lawrence Aber; value: Changing schools; value: Schools that actualize high expectations for all youth : theory for setting change and setting creation / Rhona S. Weinstein; value: An intervention in progress : pursuing precision in school race talk / Mica Pollock; value: Enhancing representation, retention, and achievement of minority students in higher education : a social transformation theory of change / Kenneth I. Maton ... [et al.]; value: The school climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students / Stephen T. Russell and Jenifer K. McGuire; value: ^Whole-school change / Laura M. Desimone; value: ^Changing community organizations; value: Building the capacity of small community-based organizations to better serve youth / Robin Lin Miller, Shannon K.E. Kobes, and Jason C. Forney; value: Quality accountability : improving fidelity of broad developmentally focused interventions / Charles Smith and Tom Akiva; value: Altering patterns of relationship and participation : youth organizing as a setting-level intervention / Paul W. Speer; value: The ethnic system of supplementary education : non-rofit and for-profit institutions in Los Angeles' Chinese immigrant community / Min Zhou; value: Changing larger social structures; value: Socioeconomic school integration / Richard D. Kahlenberg; value: The co-construction of educational reform : the intersection of federal, state, and local contexts / Amanda Datnow; value: ^Using community epidemiologic data to improve social settings : the Communities that care prevention system / Abigail A. Fagan, J. David Hawkins, and Richard F. Catalano; value: ^The youth data archive : integrating data to assess social settings in a societal sector framework / Milbrey McLaughlin and Margaret O'Brien-Strain; value: Cross-cutting themes : strategies for measurement and intervention; value: Measuring and improving program quality : reliability and statistical power / Andres Martinez and Stephen W. Raudenbush; value: Improving youth-serving social settings : intervention goals and strategies for schools, youth programs, and communities / Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Marybeth Shinn.