Supporting and instructing for youth purpose: new directions for youth development

Learn about the kinds of learning tools and experiences that are most likely to foster a positive and engaged sense of purpose for diverse groups of youth.This groundbreaking research is among the first in recent years to explicitlyaddress the supports of youth purpose and construct youth purpose interventions. Presenting the current state of the field on instructing for youth purpose, it’s a valuable resource for researchers, teachers, and policymakers who are interested in promoting positive youth development.This is the 1322nd volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions. INDICE: Issue Editor's Notes 1Jenni Menon MarianoExecutive Summary 71. Promoting youth purpose: A review of the literature 13Sonia Issac Koshy, Jenni Menon MarianoThe research findings on how purpose can be supported are reviewed in this article. Curricular approaches to teaching for purpose are discussed.2. The role of purpose in life in healthy identity formation: A grounded model 31Kendall Cotton BronkThe study reported in this article followed a sample of adolescent purpose exemplars for five years. The findings show how purpose is related to one particular aspect of healthy development during the adolescent life stage: identity formation.3. Supporting a strong sense of purpose: Lessons from a rural community 45Devora ShamahThis case study of students in one remote rural county shows how out-ofschool activities along with work experiencesare important for developing a strong sense of purpose. The article discusseshow many of the purpose support strategies can be effectively extended to urban and suburban communities.4. Make Your Work Matter: Development and pilot evaluation of a purpose-centered career education intervention 59Bryan J. Dik, Michael F. Steger, Amanda Gibson, William PeisnerThis article reports results of a quasi-experimental pilot study and follow-up focus group that evaluated Make Your Work Matter, a three-module, school-based intervention designed to help adolescent youth explore, discover, and enact a sense of purpose in their early career development.5. Purpose plus: Supporting youth purpose, control, andacademic achievement 75Jane Elizabeth Pizzolato, Elizabeth Levine Brown, MaryAllison KannyThis article examines the effectiveness of an intervention designed to promote purpose development in high school students from a lowsocioeconomic-status community.6. The benefits of reflecting on and discussing purpose in life in emerging adulthood 89Matthew J. BundickThis article reports outcomes of a purpose intervention for college students. It shows how engaging students in a guided reflection and discussion activity around their life goals and core values can support their purposefulness later in life and can also be important to their life satisfaction.7. Conclusion: Recommendations for how practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can promote youth purpose 105Jenni Menon MarianoThis article discusses specific measures that practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can take to support purpose among youth.Index 113

• ISBN: 978-1-118-25310-6
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 128
• Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés