Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research [Paperback]

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.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.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.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