Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

Edited by:

Melvin Delgado - Boston University, USA

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.

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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.

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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.

Ms Danielle White

Education , University of Manchester

February 10, 2014

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