Designs and methods for youth-led research /

Delgado, Melvin,

Designs and methods for youth-led research / Melvin Delgado. - xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-290) and index.

Setting the context -- Overview -- Conceptual foundation for youth involvement -- Youth as researchers : approaches and considerations -- Guiding goals, principles, objectives, and outcomes of youth-led research -- Youth research competencies : attitudes, knowledge, and skills -- Continuum of youth involvement in research -- Youth-led research and methods -- Initiating and sustaining youth-led research -- Ethical conduct and decision making -- Funding of community research and program evaluation -- Field examples -- Field examples of youth-led community research -- Future challenges -- Challenges and implications for practice -- Epilogue. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Pt. III. 10. Pt. IV. 11. 12.

Provides both practitioners and academics with a foundation from which to plan and implement social research and program evaluation projects that place youth in central roles. "Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research provides students and practitioners with 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 is much more than research undertaken by youth" - it represents a profound political and social statement about making relevant research result in significant changes to programs in the field of youth services." "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."--BOOK JACKET.

1412915287 9781412915281 0761930442 9780761930440

2005009852


Youth--Research--United States
Youth development--United States.
Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
Youth--Services for--United States
Social participation.

HQ796 / .D392 2006

305.2355072073

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