Call for Papers | Guidelines for Authors | FAQ for the Working Paper Series | Main Kinder & Braver World Project website
- Content Requirements:
- Papers must address one of the following two topics:
- Youth Movements for Social Change. What is known about youth organizing and youth social movements? How do adults and youth work together for social change? How do youth movements leverage technology? What are psychosocial predictors of youth engagement? How do peer norms affect youth activism? What is the relationship between self-efficacy and youth empowerment? What are key research insights that organizations trying to create a social movement with youth need to know?
- The Role of Youth Organizations. Youth have long participated in religious and secular organizations, including programs like the Girl Scouts of America, 4-H, and Gay-Straight Alliances. How has participation in these organizations shaped youths’ worldviews, civic engagement, and social wellbeing? What kinds of organizational structures work best to engage youth? Does participation in youth organizations predict healthy civic engagement? How is social media used by youth organizations? What are notable successes and failures in creating youth organizations? What are key lessons from youth organizations that anyone working to support youth should know?
- Papers must address one of the following two topics:
- Papers must rely on peer-reviewed research or equivalent scholarship (e.g., law review articles or legal decisions) must reflect that research accurately, and must appropriately attribute and cite that research. The research can be from any one of a number of fields and disciplines, including social science, scientific, mental health, health, or legal.
- While papers are expected to focus on research about youth, to the extent that empowering youth to create a kinder, braver world involves guiding adults to help them, research on adults also may be relevant.
- Papers must be sensitive to the fact that youth come from different socio-economic backgrounds, values, racial and ethnic groups, genders and sexual orientations.
- Papers must acknowledge limitations of the research on which they rely. For example, a paper based on research about one demographic (i.e. youth in urban areas) must acknowledge that the findings cannot necessarily be extrapolated to other groups (i.e., youth in rural settings). A paper based on research among one age group (i.e., high school students), may not necessarily be extrapolated to another (i.e., all children).
- Papers must be new work, written specifically for publication in the KBW Research Series.
- Papers must provide recommendations or ideas to a clear target audience or audiences. The audiences may include, for example: youth, parents, teachers, school administrators, school boards, afterschool programs, coaches, choral directors, religious leaders, and community centers.
- While most papers will be focused on U.S. audiences, some may have an international reach.
- Papers must be well written and accessible to the target audience(s), in terms of language, style, and length. Literature reviews or legal analyses can be 10-20 pages in length, but most papers should be under 10 pages. The shorter, the better.
- Papers must further the goal of empowering youth to create a kinder, braver world.
- Papers must benefit both the target audience and the community as a whole.
- Papers should be an appropriate length for the given audience and goal. Literature reviews or legal analyses can be 10-20 pages in length, but most papers should be under 10 pages. Even shorter is preferred.
- Each paper must be submitted in Microsoft Word, double-spaced 12-point Times New Roman font. Margins should be 1 inch at the top and bottom of the page and 1 ¼ inch from the left and right hand sides of the page;
- Papers should include the author’s name, affiliation, and contact information.
- The paper they propose to publish;
- A cv or biography of the author; and
- A summary describing:
- The content and goal of the paper;
- The target audience of the paper; and
- Ways in which the author works with and/or intends to reach that audience.
Call for Papers | Guidelines for Authors | FAQ for the Working Paper Series | Main Kinder & Braver World Project website