Social Change, Public Policy, And Community Collaborations: Training Human Development Professionals For The Twenty-first Century

With Social Change, Public Policy, and Community Collaborations, the editors present new and innovative scholarship aimed at changing the character of graduate and undergraduate education in human development-related disciplines. Not merely an academic exercise, the book provides a new vision for reforming the nature of higher education by promoting co-learning and collaboration between universities and the communities they serve. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with training human development professionals for the twenty-first century. The volume is derived from the papers and discussions from the Third National Conference on Applied Developmental Science.