Ben Kirshner, PhD

Selected Publications
(For complete list of publications, please see the faculty member's curriculum vitae.)

Edited Volumes
Kirshner, B. (Ed.). (2007). Special issue: Youth activism as a context for learning and development. American Behavioral Scientist, 51(3).

Articles
Strobel, K., Kirshner, B., McLaughlin, M.W., & O’Donoghue, J. (2008). Qualities that attract urban youth to after-school settings and promote continued participation. Teachers College Record, 110(8), 1677-1705.

Kirshner, B. (2008). Guided participation in three youth activism organizations: Facilitation, apprenticeship, and joint work. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 17(1), 60-101.

Kirshner, B. (2007). Supporting youth participation in school reform: Preliminary notes from a university-community partnership. Special issue of Children, Youth and Environments: Pushing the Boundaries: Critical International Perspectives on Child and Youth Participation, 17(2).

Kirshner, B., Strobel, K., & Fernandez, M. (2003). Critical civic engagement among urban youth. Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2(1).

Nasir, N. & Kirshner, B. (2003). The cultural construction of moral and civic identities. Applied Developmental Science, 7, 138-147. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Kirshner, B. (2003). Reflecting on moral development and education [Review of the book, Education in the Moral Domain (2001), L. Nucci, New York: Cambridge University Press.] Mind, Culture, and Activity, 10(3), 260-265. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Book Chapters
Kirshner, B. (2006). Moral voices of politically engaged urban youth. In New directions for youth development: Shaping the ethical understandings of youth, No. 108. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (Wiley Periodicals, Inc.).

Kirshner, B., O'Donoghue, J., & McLaughlin, M. W. (2005). Youth-adult research collaborations: Bringing youth voice to the research process. In J. Mahoney, R. Larson, & J. Eccles (Eds.), Organized activities as contexts of development: extracurricular activities, after-school and community programs. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

O' Donoghue, J., Kirshner, B., & McLaughlin, M. W. (2003). Moving youth participation forward. In New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice and Research, No. 96. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (Wiley Periodicals, Inc.).

Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
Kirshner, B. & Geil, K. (2006). "I'm about to bring it!" Access points between youth activists and adult policymakers. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Kirshner, B. (2006). The social formation of youth leadership. Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences. International Society of the Learning Sciences.