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Community Programs to Promote Youth Development
After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the …
The Role of Parents in the Ontogeny of Achievement-Related Motivation and Behavioral Choices
Parents believe what they do matters. But, how does it matter? How do parents’ beliefs about their children early on translate into the choices those children make as adolescents? …
Moving Through Adolescence
In this monograph, we investigate the developmental trajectories of a predominantly middle-class, community-based sample of European American and African American adolescents …
Handbook of Research on Schools, Schooling and Human Development
Children spend more time in school than in any social institution outside the home. And schools probably exert more influence on children’s development and life chances than any …
Organized Activities As Contexts of Development
School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time is perceived as …
Managing to Make It
One of the myths about families in inner-city neighbourhoods is that they are characterized by poor parenting. The sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his colleagues explode this and …
Contextual Influences on Life Span/life Course
This special issue covers different aspects of life course development. The central argument of the first paper is that human development should be viewed as the product of the …