Applied developmental science (ADS) is scholarship that seeks to advance the
integration of developmental research with actions that promote positive development
and/or enhance the life chances of vulnerable children, youth, young and old adults,
and their families. The ADS perspective challenges the validity of decontextualised
knowledge and the legitimacy of isolating scholarship from the pressing human
problems of our world. This orientation emphasises the importance of
scholar/university-community partnerships as an essential means of fostering
bidirectional relationships between research and practice, wherein developmental
research both guides and is guided by the outcomes of social interventions.
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