Margaret Beale Spencer is a Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Previously, she was Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Achievement Neighborhood Growth and Ethnic Studies (CHANGES). Spencer's Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST) serves as the foundation for her gendered research emphasis which addresses resiliency, identity, and competence formation processes for African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American, and Euro-American youth. Her continuing research and programming applications address youths' emerging capacity for healthy outcomes and constructive coping methods while developing under unacknowledged and stressful conditions. Her many publications include Adolescence: Development in a Global Era (with Swanson and Edwards, in press).
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mbspencer at uchicago.edu
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(I'm not sure but I think "Euro-American youth" means white kids.)