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Youth-led Community Organizing
Delgado, Melvin; Staples, Lee
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Description for Youth-led Community Organizing
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. Melvin Delgado and Lee Staples, recognized leaders in social work macro practice and community organization, have produced the first comprehensive study of this dynamic field. Their well-organized book takes an important step toward bridging the gap between academic knowledge and community practice in this growing area. The authors social justice-rooted perspective on the fields conceptual and practical foundations is an effective basis for analyzing youth-led community organizing, but they also ... Read more
Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. Melvin Delgado and Lee Staples, recognized leaders in social work macro practice and community organization, have produced the first comprehensive study of this dynamic field. Their well-organized book takes an important step toward bridging the gap between academic knowledge and community practice in this growing area. The authors social justice-rooted perspective on the fields conceptual and practical foundations is an effective basis for analyzing youth-led community organizing, but they also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195182767
SKU
V9780195182767
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Ref
99-22
About Delgado, Melvin; Staples, Lee
Melvin Delgado is a Professor of Social Work and the Chair of Macro Practice at Boston University's School of Social Work. Lee Staples is Clinical Professor of Social Work at Boston University's School of Social Work.
Reviews for Youth-led Community Organizing
"Delgado and Staples present a theoretical and social action-oriented approach to youth-led organizing with an analytical framework based on guiding principles and informed by existing research...Delgado and Staples provide invaluable information which enriches our understanding of the world-wide youth development movement and its contemporary manifestations."
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare "This text is a step in the right direction toward ... Read more
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare "This text is a step in the right direction toward ... Read more