with social change, public policy, and community collaborations, the editors present new and innovative scholarship aimed at changing the character of graduate and undergraduate education in human development-related disciplines. not merely an academic exercise, the book provides a new vision for reforming the nature of higher education by promoting co-learning and collaboration between universities and the communities they serve. it is essential reading for anyone concerned with training human development professionals for the twenty-first century. the volume is derived from the papers and discussions from the third national conference on applied developmental science.