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Designs and methods for youth-led research / Melvin Delgado.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1412915287
  • 9781412915281
  • 0761930442
  • 9780761930440
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.2355072073 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ796 .D392 2006
Contents:
Pt. I. Setting the context -- 1. Overview -- 2. Conceptual foundation for youth involvement -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. III. Field examples -- 10. Field examples of youth-led community research -- Pt. IV. Future challenges -- 11. Challenges and implications for practice -- 12. Epilogue.
Summary: 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.Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-290) and index.

Pt. I. Setting the context -- 1. Overview -- 2. Conceptual foundation for youth involvement -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. III. Field examples -- 10. Field examples of youth-led community research -- Pt. IV. Future challenges -- 11. Challenges and implications for practice -- 12. Epilogue.

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.

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