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Liberty : thriving and civic engagement among America's youth

This book examines what it means to develop as an exemplary young person - that is, a young person who is thriving within the community and on the rise to a hopeful future. The book explores several key characteristics of positive youth development such as competence, character, confidence, social connections, and compassion that coalesce to create a young person who is developing successfully towards an "ideal" adulthood, one marked by contributions to self, others, and the institutions of civil society. Lerner looks closely at how integrated moral and civic identity typically emerges in the adolescent stage of human development, a time when a person's self-definition is undergoing significant changes. The book explores different programs and policies that promote positive youth development, the most successful ones being those that cultivate adult to youth relationships, establish skill-building, and provide the opportunity for youth participation and leadership
Print Book, English, ©2004
SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif., ©2004
xxi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780761929840, 0761929843
52942839
Ideals and human development
Evolution and the emergence of liberty
Social relationships and human development
Developmental theory as a frame for understanding liberty
On the nature of thriving
Programs promoting positive youth development and civil society
Policies promoting positive youth development and civil society