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Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research
Edited by:
- Melvin Delgado - Boston University, USA
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September 2005 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Youth-led research is increasing in popularity around the globe and empowers today's youth to help shape social interventions seeking to reach this population group. Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research provides a foundation from which to plan and implement social research and program evaluation projects that place youth in central roles. In this text, author Melvin Delgado emphasizes how youth-led research represents a profound political and social statement about making relevant research result in significant changes to programs in the field of youth services.
Key Features:
Key Features:
- Brings together the worlds of practice and academia by providing numerous examples of field-based youth-led research projects
- Encourages a partnership between youth and adults to facilitate mutual respect and give young people the opportunity to make significant and lasting contributions to the creation of solutions to many of their concerns and needs
- Examines future challenges in the field to help develop programs that will enrich tomorrow's youth
Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying youth development in a variety of Social Work, Psychology, Education, and Social Research courses. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners in the fields of youth development and youth services.
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. SETTING THE CONTEXT
1. Overview
2. Conceptual Foundation for Youth Involvement
Part II. YOUTH AS RESEARCHERS: APPROACHES AND CONSIDERATIONS
3. Guiding Goals, Principles, Objectives, and Outcomes of Youth-Led Research
4. Youth Research Competencies: Attitudes, Knowledge, and Skills
5. Continuum of Youth Involvement in Research
6. Youth-Led Research and Methods
7. Initiating and Sustaining Youth-Led Research
8. Ethical Conduct and Decision Making
9. Funding of Community Research and Program Evaluation
Part III. FIELD EXAMPLES
10. Field Examples of Youth-Led Community Research
Part IV. FUTURE CHALLENGES
11. Challenges and Implications for Practice
12. Epilogue
References
Index
About the Author
A useful introduction to an area of research which is surprisingly under developed. It maps some of the literature which does exist alongside suggestions for practice in areas such as training, community mapping, funding and so on.
Education , University of Manchester
February 10, 2014