Barry Checkoway
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 337417 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Barry Checkoway |
| NOMBRES | Barry |
| APELLIDO | Checkoway |
| FIRMA | CHECKOWAY B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 494 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Down Woodward”
This case study examined how the Michigan Youth Policy Fellows program—which aimed to create a space for a team of adolescents to engage in a collaborative photovoice project with peers from diverse backgrounds—empowered young people to critically analyze and interrupt racial segregation. The study describes how nine racially and socioeconomically diverse adolescent girls and boys (14–17 years old), from the inner city and suburbs of Detroit, col…
Engaging Suburban Students in Dialogues on Diversity in a Segregated Metropolitan Area
What are some strategies for engaging suburban students in dialogues on diversity in new American metropolis? This question is important, especially at a time when some suburbs are changing from “segregated” to “segregated and diverse,” and scholarship is needed to guide their discussion. This article analyzes efforts by a suburban school district, municipal agency, and a university to collaborate for this purpose. It draws on work with students …
Four forms of youth civic engagement for diverse democracy
Social Justice Approach to Community Development
If community development were viewed as a process to strengthen social justice in metropolitan areas, what would it be? At a time when many metropolitan areas are becoming more segregated and more diverse, this article formulates a new approach to address inequalities and recognize differences among community members. It employs the scholarship of integration to examine elements of the process and identify issues arising in an approach of this ty…
Education For Democracy by Young People in Community-Based Organizations
At a time when many young Americans have reduced their civic engagement, and public schools have de-emphasized their civic mission, some youth are taking initiative at the community level, and some community-based organizations are establishing educational programs to promote their participation. These programs originate in economically disinvested and racially segregated areas whose young people require and receive 'education for democracy' appr…
Raising Ethnic-Racial Consciousness
Empirical evidence shows that intergroup dialogue programs promote changes in ethnic-racial identity and racism awareness among college students. Expanding on this research, this study examines the effects of intergroup dialogues on adolescents’ racial consciousness. Self-reports of 147 adolescents (13–19 years old), of various racial and ethnic backgrounds were used. Repeated-measures ANOVAs, on pre- and post-tests examined changes in racial con…
What is youth participation
Youth Civic Engagement for Dialogue and Diversity at the Metropolitan Level
Youth civic engagement can take various forms, of which intergroup dialogue is one. Some forms – such as electoral participation – are inappropriate for young people
Involving Urban Planning, Social Work, and Public Health Faculty Members in the Civic Renewal of the Research University
What are some strategies for involving urban planning, social work, and public health faculty members in the civic renewal of the research university? At a time when citizens have “disengaged from democracy,” and universities have deemphasized their civic mission, this article examines ways in which these faculty members might join together and formulate strategies which complement their shared professional and public purposes on campus and in th…
Youth Participation and Community Change
Youth participation is a process of involving young people in the in-stitutions and decisions that affect their lives. It includes initiatives that
Youth participation in public policy at the municipal level
Youth Participation in Community Evaluation Research
Youth Participation in Community Evaluation Research
Should young people participate in community evaluation research and, if so, what roles should they play? We believe that youth participation is desirable, but that it remains relatively undeveloped as a field of practice or subject of study. For this reason, this paper provides perspective on the increasing involvement by young people, identifies the participation patterns and evaluation roles of young people, and draws conclusions from empirica…
Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBarry CheckowayBarry Checkoway is professor of social work and urban planning and director of the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan
Professionally Related Public Service as Applied Scholarship
Involving young people in neighborhood development
Young People as Competent Community Builders
This article reports on a pilot study of exemplary communitybased youth initiatives in the United States in which young people are active participants in solving problems, planning programs, and providing services at the community level. The article presents brief summaries of six initiatives illustrating a range of youth participation in the issues that affect their lives and their communities. These diverse initiatives exemplify a view of young…
Core Concepts for Community Change
This paper presents several core concepts or praxis principles for creating community change. It provides perspectives on change as a process of strengthening community and joining together through several strategies and skills. It draws upon research in social work, urban planning, public health, and related fields; on practice in community organization, social planning, and neighborhood development; and on work with rural and urban communities …
Youth Participation in Community Planning
Health Education and Community Empowerment
The fundamental conditions and resources for health are peace, shelter, edu cation, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice, and equity. Improvement in health requires a secure foundation in these basic prerequisites. 1
Empowering the Elderly
Older people are increasing in number and proportion of the population in Latin America and, as they do their health needs and social resources are becoming more apparent. In response, gerontologiacal health promotion is emerging as a new field emphasizing the community as a unit of health and the participation of older people in the process. Recognizing the need for more empirical research on the topic, this paper identifies initiatives that pro…
Further explorations in empowerment theory
Developed empowerment theory and replicated previous research on citizen participation and perceived control. Few investigators have designed studies that specifically test empowerment theory. This research further extends a theoretical model of psychological empowerment that includes intrapersonal, interactional, and behavioral components, by studying a large randomly selected urban and suburban community sample and examining race differences. R…
En La Tercera Edad
Older people are increasing in number and proportion of the population in Latin America and, as they do, their health and social needs are becoming more apparent. This paper describes new initiatives to promote health and well-being in Costa Rica, a Latin American country which is economically poor by international standards, but which is known for its emphasis on health and human services. It draws on research to provide perspectives on health a…
Equity in Education
The Yonkers case is viewed by some as a landmark with promise for equity in education, but will this de cision provide a vehicle for Ameri can communities to reduce residen tial segregation and school discrimination? Will it encourage planners to help communities reduce school discrimination by influencing the location of housing? Will it moti vate planning schools to prepare more persons for equity in educa tion ? This article asks these unan sw…
Ten principles for geriatric health promotion
The concept of health promotion for elderly people holds promise for countries faced with limited resources and the unprecedented growth of their elderly populations. This article draws on the work of David Werner and on research in health education, community development, health promotion and gerontological health to discuss ten principles underlying the concept of geriatric health promotion. By stressing empowerment, the strengths and not merel…
What is youth participation
Youth Participation and Community Change
Youth participation is a process of involving young people in the in-stitutions and decisions that affect their lives. It includes initiatives that
The Politics of Public Hearings
Large builders, federal housing programmes, and postwar suburbanization
Young People as Competent Community Builders
This article reports on a pilot study of exemplary communitybased youth initiatives in the United States in which young people are active participants in solving problems, planning programs, and providing services at the community level. The article presents brief summaries of six initiatives illustrating a range of youth participation in the issues that affect their lives and their communities. These diverse initiatives exemplify a view of young…
Youth Participation in Community Evaluation Research
Should young people participate in community evaluation research and, if so, what roles should they play? We believe that youth participation is desirable, but that it remains relatively undeveloped as a field of practice or subject of study. For this reason, this paper provides perspective on the increasing involvement by young people, identifies the participation patterns and evaluation roles of young people, and draws conclusions from empirica…
Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBarry CheckowayBarry Checkoway is professor of social work and urban planning and director of the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan
Raising Ethnic-Racial Consciousness
Empirical evidence shows that intergroup dialogue programs promote changes in ethnic-racial identity and racism awareness among college students. Expanding on this research, this study examines the effects of intergroup dialogues on adolescents’ racial consciousness. Self-reports of 147 adolescents (13–19 years old), of various racial and ethnic backgrounds were used. Repeated-measures ANOVAs, on pre- and post-tests examined changes in racial con…
Four forms of youth civic engagement for diverse democracy
Youth participation in public policy at the municipal level
Core Concepts for Community Change
This paper presents several core concepts or praxis principles for creating community change. It provides perspectives on change as a process of strengthening community and joining together through several strategies and skills. It draws upon research in social work, urban planning, public health, and related fields; on practice in community organization, social planning, and neighborhood development; and on work with rural and urban communities …
Youth Civic Engagement for Dialogue and Diversity at the Metropolitan Level
Youth civic engagement can take various forms, of which intergroup dialogue is one. Some forms – such as electoral participation – are inappropriate for young people
Involving young people in neighborhood development
Youth Participation in Community Evaluation Research
Youth Participation in Community Planning
Down Woodward”
This case study examined how the Michigan Youth Policy Fellows program—which aimed to create a space for a team of adolescents to engage in a collaborative photovoice project with peers from diverse backgrounds—empowered young people to critically analyze and interrupt racial segregation. The study describes how nine racially and socioeconomically diverse adolescent girls and boys (14–17 years old), from the inner city and suburbs of Detroit, col…
Education For Democracy by Young People in Community-Based Organizations
At a time when many young Americans have reduced their civic engagement, and public schools have de-emphasized their civic mission, some youth are taking initiative at the community level, and some community-based organizations are establishing educational programs to promote their participation. These programs originate in economically disinvested and racially segregated areas whose young people require and receive 'education for democracy' appr…
Professionally Related Public Service as Applied Scholarship
The Reflective Practitioner
Two Types of Planning in Neighborhoods
Peer Reviewed
Social Justice Approach to Community Development
If community development were viewed as a process to strengthen social justice in metropolitan areas, what would it be? At a time when many metropolitan areas are becoming more segregated and more diverse, this article formulates a new approach to address inequalities and recognize differences among community members. It employs the scholarship of integration to examine elements of the process and identify issues arising in an approach of this ty…
Empowering the Elderly
Older people are increasing in number and proportion of the population in Latin America and, as they do their health needs and social resources are becoming more apparent. In response, gerontologiacal health promotion is emerging as a new field emphasizing the community as a unit of health and the participation of older people in the process. Recognizing the need for more empirical research on the topic, this paper identifies initiatives that pro…
Further explorations in empowerment theory
Developed empowerment theory and replicated previous research on citizen participation and perceived control. Few investigators have designed studies that specifically test empowerment theory. This research further extends a theoretical model of psychological empowerment that includes intrapersonal, interactional, and behavioral components, by studying a large randomly selected urban and suburban community sample and examining race differences. R…
En La Tercera Edad
Older people are increasing in number and proportion of the population in Latin America and, as they do, their health and social needs are becoming more apparent. This paper describes new initiatives to promote health and well-being in Costa Rica, a Latin American country which is economically poor by international standards, but which is known for its emphasis on health and human services. It draws on research to provide perspectives on health a…
Large builders, federal housing programmes, and postwar suburbanization
The Politics of Public Hearings
Consumers and Health Planning
1974, created a national network of Health Systems Agencies (HSA) and empha-sized consumer participation in health planning, a field long dominated by medical providers and hospitals. Not only were consumers to have a majority on each HSA governing board, they were also to be &dquo;broadly representative of the social, economic, linguistic, and racial populations, geographic areas of the health service area, and major purchasers of health care,&d…
New Perspectives on Planning Practice
Peer Reviewed
Forum on the Future of Planning Practice
Peer Reviewed
Correlates of Consumer Participation in Health Planning Agencies
Two Types of Planning in Neighborhoods
Peer Reviewed
The Reflective Practitioner
The Metropolitan Midwest
Building Citizen Support for Planning at the Community Level
Planning practice is changing. Previous years of economic growth contributed to an increase in federal, state, and local planning agencies, in addition to regional and special purpose bodies with territorial or functional responsibilities. In times of growth, planning was viewed by many as a type of urban engineering and applied social science characterized by objective fact-finding and the so-called rational model. Leading texts emphasized techn…
The Metropolitan Midwest
Ten principles for geriatric health promotion
The concept of health promotion for elderly people holds promise for countries faced with limited resources and the unprecedented growth of their elderly populations. This article draws on the work of David Werner and on research in health education, community development, health promotion and gerontological health to discuss ten principles underlying the concept of geriatric health promotion. By stressing empowerment, the strengths and not merel…
Equity in Education
The Yonkers case is viewed by some as a landmark with promise for equity in education, but will this de cision provide a vehicle for Ameri can communities to reduce residen tial segregation and school discrimination? Will it encourage planners to help communities reduce school discrimination by influencing the location of housing? Will it moti vate planning schools to prepare more persons for equity in educa tion ? This article asks these unan sw…
En La Tercera Edad
Older people are increasing in number and proportion of the population in Latin America and, as they do, their health and social needs are becoming more apparent. This paper describes new initiatives to promote health and well-being in Costa Rica, a Latin American country which is economically poor by international standards, but which is known for its emphasis on health and human services. It draws on research to provide perspectives on health a…
Further explorations in empowerment theory
Developed empowerment theory and replicated previous research on citizen participation and perceived control. Few investigators have designed studies that specifically test empowerment theory. This research further extends a theoretical model of psychological empowerment that includes intrapersonal, interactional, and behavioral components, by studying a large randomly selected urban and suburban community sample and examining race differences. R…
Health Education and Community Empowerment
The fundamental conditions and resources for health are peace, shelter, edu cation, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice, and equity. Improvement in health requires a secure foundation in these basic prerequisites. 1
Empowering the Elderly
Older people are increasing in number and proportion of the population in Latin America and, as they do their health needs and social resources are becoming more apparent. In response, gerontologiacal health promotion is emerging as a new field emphasizing the community as a unit of health and the participation of older people in the process. Recognizing the need for more empirical research on the topic, this paper identifies initiatives that pro…
Youth Participation in Community Planning
Core Concepts for Community Change
This paper presents several core concepts or praxis principles for creating community change. It provides perspectives on change as a process of strengthening community and joining together through several strategies and skills. It draws upon research in social work, urban planning, public health, and related fields; on practice in community organization, social planning, and neighborhood development; and on work with rural and urban communities …
Professionally Related Public Service as Applied Scholarship
Involving young people in neighborhood development
Young People as Competent Community Builders
This article reports on a pilot study of exemplary communitybased youth initiatives in the United States in which young people are active participants in solving problems, planning programs, and providing services at the community level. The article presents brief summaries of six initiatives illustrating a range of youth participation in the issues that affect their lives and their communities. These diverse initiatives exemplify a view of young…
Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBarry CheckowayBarry Checkoway is professor of social work and urban planning and director of the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan
Youth Participation in Community Evaluation Research
Youth Participation in Community Evaluation Research
Should young people participate in community evaluation research and, if so, what roles should they play? We believe that youth participation is desirable, but that it remains relatively undeveloped as a field of practice or subject of study. For this reason, this paper provides perspective on the increasing involvement by young people, identifies the participation patterns and evaluation roles of young people, and draws conclusions from empirica…
Political science (30 obras) · Sociology (25 obras) · Public relations (21 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Youth Development and Social Support (11 obras) · Community Health and Development (10 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras)