RURAL YOUTH RESOURCES

 

ORGANIZATIONS

Food and Agricultural Organization, UN - Rural Youth

National Rural Youth Network - Canada

"The National Rural Youth Network is funded by the Canadian Rural Partnership, a Government of Canada inititiave that gives rural, remote and northern citizens the opportunity to develop local solutions to local challenges."

Rural Youth Europe

"Rural Youth Europe is a European umbrella for youth organizations working voluntarily based to promote and activate young people in countryside."

Rural Youth Tasmania

Rural Youth Network - UK

"Rural Youth Network is an independent membership organisation that aims to raise, develop and maintain an awareness of issues affecting young people and those who work with them in rural areas."

Youth Build USA

"YouthBuild gives youth a chance to work at rebuilding and strengthening their hometowns. At the same time, they get a GED or diploma, essential work experience, and leadership skills that enable them to become active, responsible members of their communities."

 

ARTICLES

 

Brody, G.H. & Stoneman, Z., Flor, D., McCrary, C., Hatings, L., & Conyers, O. (1994). "Financial resources, parent psychological functioning, parent co-caregiving, and early adolescent competence in rural two-parent African-American families." Child Development, 65, 590-605.

 

Chithprabha, K. & Kanekar, S. (1995, February). "A comparison of urban and rural students on scholastic and related variables." The Journal of Social Psychology, 117-118. An evaluation of parental pressure and related variables on students’ choices to pursue a course of science. Analysis did not support their hypothesis that parental pressure had a negative effect on post-choice academic performance.

 

Greening, L. & Dollinger, S. (1993, April). "Rural adolescents’ perceived and personal risks of suicide." Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 211-216.

 

Rojewski, J.W. (1994, July). "Career indecision types for rural adolescents from disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged backgrounds." Journal of Counseling Psychology, 356-363.

 

Taff, T.G. (1990, September). "Success for the unsuccessful." Educational Leadership, 71-72. Description of a very successful model of program serving rural youth, the DeLaSalle Education Center in Maine.

 

BOOKS

 

Bernstein, T.P. (1977). Up to the mountains and down to the villages: The transfer of youth from urban to rural China. New Haven: Yale University Press.

 

Bollman, R.D. (ed.). (1997). Rural employment: An international perspective. New York: CAB International.

 

Brunner, E. de S. (1942). Working with rural youth. NY: Arno Press.

 

Brunner, E.D. (1974). Working with rural youth. (Children and Youth Services Series).

 

Callaway, A. (1974). Educating Africa’s youth for rural development. The Hague: Bernard van Leer Foundation.

 

Carlip, H. (1995). Girl power young women speak out: Personal writings from teenage girls. New York: Warner Books of Time Warner. These personal reflections come from girls in a great variety of subcultures, from beauty queens to "cowgirls and farm chicks."

 

Coleman, L. & Porter, D. (1992). Mattering: A journey with rural youth. University of South Maine.

 

Coleman, L. & Porter, D. (eds.). (1994). Working with rural youth. University of South Maine.

 

Erickson, T.A. & Colt, A.N. My sixty years with rural youth.

 

Gall-Clayton, N. (1990). Strange people with books: A twenty-year follow up of students from a summer enrichment program for low income rural black youth from South Carolina. Louisville, KY: The Avodaco Press.

 

Gibbs, R.M. (ed.). (1998). Rural education and training in the new economy: The myth of the rural skills gap. Ames: Iowa State University Press.

 

Hannan, D. (1970). Rural exodus: A study of the forces influencing the large-scale migration of Irish rural youth.

 

Ianni, F.A.J. (1989). The search for structure: A report on American youth today. New York: The Free Press. (London: Collier McMillan). This is a remarkable study, perhaps the most significant of the 1980s. It studied the socialization of teenagers in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Follow the sections especially on rural youth from the Index.

 

Klalergis, M.M. (1998). Seen and heard: Teenagers talk about their lives. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. A beautiful book of pictures and personal essays or statements about their lives. Teenagers from all walks of life, including rural youth, talk about their real feelings toward family, school, community, the future, and religion.

 

Kumari, R. et al. (1990). Growing up in rural India: Problems and needs of adolescent girls. New Delhi: Radiant Publishers.

 

Ludwig, A.K., Hanlon, G., & DiMartino, D.R. (1978). The impact of rural Nebraska industrial development on the migration of rural youth. University of Nebraska.

 

Melvin, B.L. (1971). Rural youth: Their situation and prospects. (research monography series, vol. 15). NY: Da Capo Press.

 

Melvin, B.L. (1971, 1980). Rural youth on relief. (research monograph series, vol. 11). Ayer.

 

Miller, B.A. & Hahn, K.J. (1997). Finding their own place: Youth in three small rural communities take part in instructive school-to-work experiences. Charleston, WV: ERIC Clearing House on Rural Eduction and Small Schools.

 

Mitchell, G. (1973). I’m somebody important: Young black rural voices from rural Georgia. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press.

 

Murphy, M.S.R. (1993). Sex awareness among rural girls. Delhi: B.R. Pub. Corp.

 

Reddy, N.Y. (1981). Values and attitudes of Indian youth: A psychological study of rural and urban students. New Delhi: Light and Life Publishers.

 

Roche, M.P. (1985). Rural police & rural youth. (Virginia legal studies). University of Virginia. This text presents the authors’ view on dealing with rural juvenile offenders. Discussions include how the problems of rural youth and rural juvenile offenders are different from their urban peers. He suggests a policy of minimum police intervention in rural juvenile offenses. He bases his views on the fact that the majority of rural crime is trivial in nature and does not present a threat to the community at large. Therefore, repressive incarceration is not necessary and counterproductive.

 

Roghuvanshi, M.S. (1984). Modernizing rural youth.

 

Singh, D.R. (1987). Rural youth. Allahabad, India: Chugh Publications.

 

Simhadri, Y.C. (1992). Indian rural youth. Delhi: Ajanta Publications.

 

Slepenkov, I.M. (1976). Rural youth today. Newtonville, MA: Oriental Reserch Partners.

 

The Western Maine Community Partnership. (1993, May). Profiles of community life: Alcohol and other drugs. Search Institute. A comprehensive study of community attitudes, perspectives, and behaviors in the Oxford Hills area of Maine.

 

Tierney, M. (1992). In our own words: Community story traditions to prevent and heal substance abuse: A teacher’s guide with examples from native American and rural. Charleston, WV: ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools.

 

Walther, L. et. al. (1989). The catalyst training package: Increasing options for rural youth. MA: Education Development Center.

 

Williams, J.R. (1968). The youth of Haouch el Harimi, a Lebanese village. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

Wright, G. (1964). Rural revolution in France: The peasantry in the twentieth century. Paris: Editions de liEpis.

Dean Borgman cCYS