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- Title
Theorizing Organizational Learning to Enhance Youth–Adult Partnerships in Community‐Based Youth Serving Organizations.
- Authors
Nalani, Andrew; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Godfrey, Erin B.
- Abstract
Youth–adult partnerships are intentionally cultivated intergenerational relationships characterized by shared power among youth and adults. Although youth–adult partnerships (Y‐APs) are widely adopted as a strategy to promote key positive development outcomes in youth service organizations, research documents various challenges that affect their quality implementation. This critical literature review presents a theoretical framework for how community‐based youth service organizations may enhance youth–adult partnership quality through organizational learning. The main premise is that Y‐AP implementation challenges are best understood as challenges of collective learning within an organization. As such, the review integrates theory and research in organizational learning with present scholarship on Y‐APs to delineate how two learning processes—intra‐group and inter‐group knowledge transfer—influence Y‐AP quality. These learning pathways exist in dynamic interaction at different levels of the organizational hierarchy, at the point of service and beyond. The theoretical framework provides a road map for effective functioning of Y‐APs in practice and an interpretive lens for descriptive and intervention research to understand and address Y‐AP challenges. Highlights: We reframe youth‐adult partnership (Y‐AP) challenges as challenges of collective learningOrganizational learning (OL) is a key, yet under‐examined, pathway for addressing Y‐AP challengesOL consists of within‐group learning processes and knowledge transfer processes across groupsOL processes occur in two types of settings in the organization: point of access and beyondOur multilevel framework depicts how OL processes may result in sustained partnership practice.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATIONAL learning; YOUTH societies &; clubs; YOUTH development; LEARNING; SCHOLARLY method
- Publication
American Journal of Community Psychology, 2021, Vol 68, Issue 3/4, p513
- ISSN
0091-0562
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ajcp.12514