Applying Research About Adolescence in Real-World Settings: The Sample Case of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmond P. Bowers ◽  
G. John Geldhof ◽  
Sara K. Johnson ◽  
Lacey J. Hilliard ◽  
Rachel M. Hershberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Real World ◽  
Sample Case

scholarly journals Enhancing the International Study of Positive Youth Development: Process, Specificity, and the Sample Case of Character Virtues

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 402-422
Author(s):  
Richard M. Lerner ◽  
Pamela Jervis ◽  
Marc H. Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
International Study ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Developmental Systems ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Sample Case ◽  
Positive Character

This article focuses on the interplay of research and practice (research⇔practice integration) in advancing international efforts to understand and enhance positive youth development (PYD). We discuss 3 facets of PYD research and application that have cross-cutting relevance to theory, to the use of theory for designing principles of PYD programs, and to evaluating whether specific instances of youth development programs have features that promote PYD. Using dynamic, relational developmental-systems-based concepts, we discuss the process of development involved in PYD, the use of the specificity principle to frame research and practice and, as a sample case illustrating how PYD research and practice can be advanced through the use of the specificity principle, we focus on one facet of PYD, that is, positive character, or character virtues. We point to important future directions for further illuminating the specificity of PYD process through assessing the developmental neurobiology of PYD, and we emphasize the important contributions that PYD research and practice integration can make worldwide to enhancing youth contributions to equity, social justice, and democracy.

Positive youth development: Assessing the interaction between intentional self-regulation and motivation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. John Geldhof ◽  
Michelle B. Weiner ◽  
Jennifer P. Agans ◽  
Megan Kiely Mueller ◽  
Richard M. Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Intentional Self Regulation

PROMOTING POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: A SCHOOL GARDEN NARRATIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-150
Author(s):  
Andile Mji
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
School Garden ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Resultant Effect

This study reports on a programme encapsulating the ideals of positive youth development. Here, a specific narrative of an observed problem, how youths were encouraged to participate in activities and the resultant effect of interactions, is described. Participants were 118 learners, 67 (56.8%) of whom were females. The learners were in Grades 10, 11 and 12 with ages ranging between 16 years and 18 years. The programme learners participated in starting and tending gardens at school. Here, the aim was to determine how exposing learners to an empowering environment resulted in building their competencies. Specifically, this article determined what lessons learners learnt from the development programme and whether attributes of positive youth development could be extracted from learners’ utterances. Qualitative data using open-ended interviews and following a narrative perspective were collected. Findings revealed that learners changed, learned to share and understood what it meant to work with others. Also, their utterings were consistent with competencies illustrating positive youth development. The findings illustrated the importance and value of positive programmes among the youth.

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