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Steven M. Worker; Sally Neas; Dorina M. Espinoza; Car Mun Kok; Martin H. Smith – Journal of Youth Development, 2023
Youth development programs often provide young people with science learning experiences. We argue for reframing youth science learning from a focus on individual scientific literacy to an emphasis on collective scientific literacy--"community science"--to support young people in using science to address issues in their lives and…
Descriptors: Youth, Participatory Research, Action Research, Science Education
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Mary M. McConnaha; Joanne E. Marciano; Brittany M. Brewer; Lauren Elizabeth Reine Johnson – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
In the summer of 2020, amidst state-mandated social distancing and protests for racial justice, youth participating in an ongoing YPAR initiative sought to design and facilitate a book club for the residents of their subsidized housing community to increase community awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. Through interviews, youth shared…
Descriptors: Books, Clubs, Community Involvement, Community Programs
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Matheson, David W.; Rempe, Gary; Saltis, Michelle N.; Nowag, Amanda D. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2020
The purpose of this quantitative study was to understand how training and the development of the mentoring relationship impacts mentor beliefs across time within a therapeutic mentoring program called Campus Connections, a community engagement program that pairs university undergraduate and graduate students with youth from the local community in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Beliefs, Community Involvement, Graduate Students
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David B. Tataw – School Community Journal, 2023
This study assesses the impact of five years of community level activities in the Pomona Youth and Family Master Plan (PYFMP) on four school-related risk and protective factors including academic failure, low school commitment, school opportunities for prosocial involvement, and school rewards for prosocial involvement. The intervention and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Community Programs, Risk Management, Resilience (Psychology)
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Deborah Vriend Van Duinen; Audra Bolhuis – English Journal, 2016
A recent community wide reading program offers a valuable opportunity for students and teachers to respond to literature by attending community wide events, creating art, and developing relationships with community members.
Descriptors: Novels, Community Involvement, Reading Programs, Community Programs