Support and Instruction for Youth Purpose (eBook)

New Directions for Youth Development, Number 132

Jenni Menon Mariano (Herausgeber)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
128 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-25381-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Learn about the kinds of learning tools and experiences that aremost likely to foster a positive and engaged sense of purpose fordiverse groups of youth. This groundbreaking research is among thefirst in recent years to explicitly address the supports of youthpurpose and construct youth purpose interventions. Presenting thecurrent state of the field on instructing for youth purpose,it's a valuable resource for researchers, teachers, andpolicymakers who are interested in promoting positive youthdevelopment.

This is the 132nd volume of New Directions forYouth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report seriesdedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helpingyoung people, including scholars, practitioners, and people fromdifferent disciplines and professions.

Autor

Jenni Menon Mariano is the author of Support and Instruction for Youth Purpose: New Directions for Youth Development, Number 132, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

Issue Editor's Notes 1
Jenni Menon Mariano

Executive Summary 7

1. Promoting youth purpose: A review of the literature13
Sonia Issac Koshy, Jenni Menon Mariano
The research findings on how purpose can be supported arereviewed in this article. Curricular approaches to teaching forpurpose are discussed.

2. The role of purpose in life in healthy identity formation:A grounded model 31
Kendall Cotton Bronk
The study reported in this article followed a sample ofadolescent purpose exemplars for five years. The findings show howpurpose is related to one particular aspect of healthy developmentduring the adolescent life stage: identity formation.

3. Supporting a strong sense of purpose: Lessons from a ruralcommunity 45
Devora Shamah
This case study of students in one remote rural county showshow out-ofschool activities along with work experiences areimportant for developing a strong sense of purpose. The articlediscusses how many of the purpose support strategies can beeffectively extended to urban and suburban communities.

4. Make Your Work Matter: Development and pilot evaluation ofa purpose-centered career education intervention 59
Bryan J. Dik, Michael F. Steger, Amanda Gibson, WilliamPeisner
This article reports results of a quasi-experimental pilotstudy and follow-up focus group that evaluated Make Your WorkMatter, a three-module, school-based intervention designed to helpadolescent youth explore, discover, and enact a sense of purpose intheir early career development.

5. Purpose plus: Supporting youth purpose, control, andacademic achievement 75
Jane Elizabeth Pizzolato, Elizabeth Levine Brown, MaryAllison Kanny
This article examines the effectiveness of an interventiondesigned to promote purpose development in high school studentsfrom a lowsocioeconomic-status community.

6. The benefits of reflecting on and discussing purpose inlife in emerging adulthood 89
Matthew J. Bundick
This article reports outcomes of a purpose intervention forcollege students. It shows how engaging students in a guidedreflection and discussion activity around their life goals and corevalues can support their purposefulness later in life and can alsobe important to their life satisfaction.

7. Conclusion: Recommendations for how practitioners,researchers, and policymakers can promote youth purpose 105
Jenni Menon Mariano
This article discusses specific measures that practitioners,researchers, and policymakers can take to support purpose amongyouth.

Index 113

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.1.2012
• Reihe/Serie: J-B MHS Single Issue Mental Health Services
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• Schlagworte: Bildungswesen • Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychology • Education • K-12 / Entwicklung im Jugendalter • Klinische Psychologie / Kinder u. Jugendliche • Psychologie • Psychology • Youth Development (K-12)
• ISBN-10: 1-118-25381-7 / 1118253817
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-25381-6 / 9781118253816