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Title Youth programs as builders of social capital / issue editors, Matthew Calvert, Mary Emery, Sharon Kinsey
Published San Francisco : Jossey-Bass/Wiley, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series New directions for youth development, 1533-8916 ; no. 138
New directions for youth development ; no. 138.
Contents Social capital: its constructs and survey development / Richard P. Enfield, Keith C. Nathaniel -- Measuring social capital change using ripple mapping / Barbara Baker, Elaine M. Johannes -- Social capital and youth development: toward a typology of program practices / Mary Emery -- Using multiple youth programming delivery modes to drive the development of social capital in 4-H participants / Sharon Kinsey -- A community development approach to service-learning: building social capital between rural youth and adults / Steven A. Henness, Anna L. Ball, MaryJo Moncheski -- Social capital and vulnerability from the family, neighborhood, school, and community perspectives / Bonita Williams, Suzanne M. Le Menestrel -- Engaging underrepresented youth populations in community youth development: tapping social capital as a critical resource / Nancy Erbstein -- Engaging young people as a community development strategy in the Wisconsin Northwoods / William Andresen, Margaret Dallapiazza, Matthew Calvert
Summary 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 bu
Notes "Summer 2013."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Youth -- Societies and clubs.
Social capital (Sociology)
Youth development.
Youth in development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies.
Social capital (Sociology)
Youth development
Youth in development
Youth -- Societies and clubs
Form Electronic book
Author Calvert, Matthew, editor
Emery, Mary (Mary E.), editor.
Kinsey, Sharon, editor
ISBN 1118743741
9781118743744