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Supporting and Instructing for Youth Purpose: New Directions for Youth Development, Number 132

Jenni Menon Mariano (Editor) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Youth Civic Development: Work at the Cutting Edge: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 134

Constance A. Flanagan (Editor), Brian D. Christens (Editor) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Take a cutting edge look at the civic engagement of young people. Increasingly recognized as an important feature of democratic functioning in communities, it has also become clear that the civic domain is indispensable as a context for understanding human development processes. This volume proposes the following central theses in relation to youth civic development:

• It is rooted in the realities of young people’s everyday lives.

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Innovations in Child and Youth Programming: A Special Issue from the National AfterSchool Association: New Directions for Youth Development, Supplement 2011

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Expanded Learning Time and Opportunities: New Directions for Youth Development, Number 131

Helen Janc Malone (Editor) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Expanding the learning day is gaining national momentum as an important school-improvement and whole-child development strategy. This issue focuses on school-community partnerships that provide a seamless, longer learning day that best meets the academic (Expanded Learning Time or ELT) and developmental (Expanded Learning Opportunities or ELO) needs of high-poverty students in resource-poor communities.

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