Youth Programs as Builders of Social Capital E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
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• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 199

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

This volume builds understanding of practices in youth and community development that create or build social capital assets at the individual, group, and community levels. The authors explore whether programs contribute to the development of social capital at the individual and community scales, thereby fostering and enhancing positive youth development as well as community development. It includes articles on defining and measuring social capital through instruments designed to document impact and also to engage program participants. The authors then discuss program practices that build social capital in a wide range of youth development settings, from community-based service-learning to 4-H community clubs. Finally, they focus on building social capital in particular contexts, including work in rural communities with the most vulnerable youth. The volume is designed to help practitioners: * Refine their dual focus on youth and community development * Clarify constructs that help translate the public value of positive youth development to community stakeholders * Provide examples of practices that link youth and youth programs more intentionally to the social relationships that knit communities together. This is the 138th volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title page

Copyright page

Editorial Board

Issue Editors' Notes

Social capital: Enhancing youth programming and youth outcomes

Linking community and youth development

Defining and measuring social capital

Program practices that build social capital

Contextual considerations in developing social capital

Conclusion

Executive Summary

Chapter One: Social capital: Its constructs and survey development

Chapter Two: Measuring social capital change using ripple mapping

Chapter Three: Social capital and youth development: Toward a typology of program practices

Chapter Four: Using multiple youth programming delivery modes to drive the development of social capital in 4-H participants

Chapter Five: A community development approach to service-learning: Building social capital between rural youth and adults

Chapter Six: Social capital and vulnerability from the family, neighborhood, school, and community perspectives

Chapter Seven: Engaging underrepresented youth populations in community youth development: Tapping social capital as a critical resource

Chapter Eight: Engaging young people as a community development strategy in the Wisconsin Northwoods

Chapter 1: Social capital: Its constructs and survey development

The process

Identifying the constructs of social capital

Implications and conclusions

Chapter 2: Measuring social capital change using ripple mapping

Significance

Learning from ripple mapping

Youth and adult partnerships improving communities across states

Conclusion

Appendix: Steps for a participatory mapping process

Chapter 3: Social capital and youth development: Toward a typology of program practices

Research approach

The interaction of bridging and bonding social capital to create an upward spiral

Toward a typology of youth development activities and social capital

Strategies for increasing bonding social capital

Conclusion

Chapter 4: Using multiple youth programming delivery modes to drive the development of social capital in 4-H participants

4-H and social capital

Life skills and social capital

The four essential elements and social capital

4-H club programming

Peer-to-peer interviews

4-H club community service projects

4-H after-school programs

4-H school enrichment

Conclusion

Chapter 5: A community development approach to service-learning: Building social capital between rural youth and adults

Case studies of rural service-learning and civic engagement

Findings from the case studies

Implications for youth development

Recommendations for practitioners

Areas for further research

Conclusion

Chapter 6: Social capital and vulnerability from the family, neighborhood, school, and community perspectives

Positive outcomes

Dimensions of vulnerability

Cooperative Extension as a solution

Social capital

Conclusion

Chapter 7: Engaging underrepresented youth populations in community youth development: Tapping social capital as a critical resource

Pivotal grantee practices

Conclusion

Chapter 8: Engaging young people as a community development strategy in the Wisconsin Northwoods

Iron County: Attracting and retaining young people on the Gogebic Range

Florence County: Setting the stage for youth voices and action in community development

Implications

Index

Youth Programs as Builders of Social Capital

Matthew Calvert, Mary Emery, Sharon Kinsey (editors)

New Directions for Youth Development, No. 138, Summer 2013

Gil G. Noam, Editor-in-Chief

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Editorial Board

K. Anthony Appiah

Princeton University

Princeton, N.J.

Dale A. Blyth

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minn.

Dante Cicchetti

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minn.

William Damon

Stanford University

Palo Alto, Calif.

Goéry Delacôte

At-Bristol Science Museum

Bristol, England

Felton Earls

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Mass.

Jacquelynne S. Eccles

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Mich.

Wolfgang Edelstein

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Berlin, Germany

Kurt Fischer

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Cambridge, Mass.

Carol Gilligan

New York University Law School

New York, N.Y.

Robert Granger

W. T. Grant Foundation

New York, N.Y.

Ira Harkavy

University of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Penn.

Reed Larson

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana-Champaign, Ill.

Richard Lerner

Tufts University

Medford, Mass.

Milbrey W. McLaughlin

Stanford University

Stanford, Calif.

Pedro Noguera

New York University

New York, N.Y.

Fritz Oser

University of Fribourg

Fribourg, Switzerland

Karen Pittman

The Forum for Youth Investment

Washington, D.C.

Jane Quinn

The Children's Aid Society

New York, N.Y.

Jean Rhodes

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Boston, Mass.

Rainer Silbereisen

University of Jena

Jena, Germany

Elizabeth Stage

University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, Calif.

Hans Steiner

Stanford Medical School

Stanford, Calif.

Carola Suárez-Orozco

New York University

New York, N.Y.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

New York University

New York, N.Y.

Erin Cooney, Editorial Manager

Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency (PEAR)

Issue Editors' Notes

we focus on social capital as a unifying theme for this volume as a way to enhance youth involvement strategies in both the youth and community development contexts. Social capital has been defined as the glue that makes communities work. It is composed of both vertical and horizontal networks, norms of reciprocity and trust, strong ties (bonding) that lead to people helping each other, and enforcing norms of social control and weak ties (bridging) that link people and organizations to resources, information, and influence. We focus on social capital for two key reasons. First, research demonstrates that programs that build social capital produce stronger outcomes for youth in terms of reaching educational and employment goals and in becoming contributing citizens. Evidence also exists that programs with a focus on social capital have greater youth attendance and participation. Second, a growing body of research indicates a strong correlation between a prosperous community and strong stocks of social capital. Both community and youth development efforts have tended to occur independent of one another, yet the pattern is changing as successful community change indicators demonstrate the power of youth involvement. At the same time, vibrant youth development efforts emerge from projects where youth choose to make a difference in the community.