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At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings. Current Issues in Out-of-School Time
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Brion-Meisels, Gretchen, Ed.; Fei, Jessica Tseming, Ed.; Vasudevan, Deepa Sriya, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2020
"At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings" brings together the voices of over 50 adults and youth to explore both the promises and challenges of intergenerational work in out-of-school time (OST) programs. Comprised of 14 chapters, this book features empirical research, conceptual essays, poetry,…
Descriptors: Adults, Youth, Role, Activism
State of Metropolitan America: On the Front Lines of Demographic Transformation
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Brookings Institution, 2010
This report marks the inaugural edition of a regular summary report in Brookings' "State of Metropolitan America" series. It focuses on the major demographic forces transforming the nation and large metropolitan areas in the 2000s. In this sense, it previews what people will learn from the results of the 2010 census, as well as supplements those…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Demography, Population Growth, Migration
What Develops in Emotional Development? Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy Series.
Mascolo, Michael, F. Ed.; Griffin, Sharon, Ed. – 1998
It is difficult to make progress in the study of emotions and emotional development if the meanings assigned to central constructs vary widely across investigators. This book clarifies and synthesizes the different ways in which emotion researchers approach fundamental questions about the nature of emotion and emotional development. Theorist and…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Anger
Learning across the Lifespan: Theories, Research, Policies.
Tuijnman, Albert C., Ed.; Van Der Kamp, Max, Ed. – 1992
This book contains 15 papers on the following topics related to lifelong learning: lifespan development and education, capacity to learn in the lifespan, skills formation in the workplace, learning to learn in the lifespan, and implications for policy and practice. The following papers are included: "Learning for Life: New Ideas, New…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults
Troubles du langage (Troubles with Language).
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de Weck, Genevieve, Ed. – Bulletin suisse de linguistique applique, 1997
Articles on communication and language disorder are presented. All but one are in French; the other is in German. They include: "Specificity of Developmental Dysphasia: Implications for Intervention" (Marc Montfort, Adoracion Juarez Sanchez); "Difficulties with Language Development and Discursive Capacity" (Genevieve de Weck); "Language Production…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Aphasia
Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications.
Cassidy, Jude, Ed.; Shaver, Phillip R., Ed. – 1999
The theoretical work on attachment behavior by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth spawned one of the broadest, most creative lines of research in twentieth century psychology. This volume compiles articles discussing attachment theory and research, measurement issues, and contributions of recent theoretical and empirical developments to the study of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior
Encyclopedia of Adult Development.
Kastenbaum, Robert, Ed. – 1993
This encyclopedia contains 106 articles on adult development that were written by more than 75 specialists in such diverse fields as anthropology, communication, education, health sciences, history, and psychology. In a guide to related topics that is presented at the beginning of the encyclopedia, the 106 articles are grouped under the following…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adults, Age Differences