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Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research
Contributor(s): Delgado, Melvin (Editor)
ISBN: 1412915287     ISBN-13: 9781412915281
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
OUR PRICE:   $170.05  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2005
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Annotation: 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:
  • 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Research
- Social Science | Methodology
- Social Science | Children's Studies
Dewey: 305.235
LCCN: 2005009852
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.4" W x 9.18" (1.21 lbs) 320 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Delgado, Melvin: - Scholarly and Practice Interests

Latino and other marginalized urban population groups, youth development-youth-led research and macro-practice, community-capacity enhancement, non-traditional urban settings