Academic Journal and Chapters
Osberg, J and Strobel, K. (under review). Leadership Development: An Examination of Individual and Programmatic Growth. Journal of Adolescent Research.
O’Donoghue, J., and Kirshner, B. (forthcoming). Engaging Urban Youth in Civic Practice: Community-Based Youth Organizations as Alternative Sites for Democratic Education.
Kirshner, B. (forthcoming). Guided Participation in Youth Activism. Journal of Learning Sciences.
O’Donoghue, J., and Strobel, K. (forthcoming). Directivity and Freedom: Adult Support of Activism Among Urban Youth. American Behavioral Scientist.
Strobel, K., Kirshner, B., McLaughlin, M., O’Donoghue, J. (forthcoming). Qualities that Attract Urban Youth to After School Settings and Promote Continued Participation. Teachers College Record.
Scott, W.R., Deschenes, S., Hopkins, K., Newman, A., and McLaughlin, M. (forthcoming). Advocacy Organizations and the Field of Youth Services: Ongoing Efforts to Restructure a Field. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Anyon, Y. & Fernández M. (Fall 2007). Realizing the Potential of Community-University Partnerships. Change, The Magazine of Higher Learning, November/December 2007.
Kirshner, B. (Summer 2006). The Social Formation of Leadership in a Youth Activism Group. Published in the proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences.
Strobel, K., Osberg, J., and McLaughlin, M. (Spring 2006). Participation in Social Change: Shifting Adolescents’ Developmental Pathways. Gingwright, S., Noguera, P., and Cammarota, J. (Eds). Beyond Resistance: Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Policy and Practice for America’s Youth.
Kirshner, B., O’Donoghue, J., & McLaughlin, M. (Spring 2005). Youth Adult Research Collaborations: Bringing youth voice to the research process. Larson, R., Eccles, J., and Mahoney, J. (Eds). Organized Activities as Contexts of Development: Extracurricular activities, after-school and community programs.
Kirshner, B., Strobel K., & Fernández M. (Spring 2003). Critical Civic Engagement Among Urban Youth. PENN GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, Vol. 2, Issue 1.