Investigating Adolescents’ Critical Consciousness Development through a Character Framework

Seider, Scott; Tamerat, Jalene; Clark, Shelby; Soutter, Madora

doi:10.1007/s10964-017-0641-4

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“…Below, we describe key features of these two schooling models as well as brief descriptions of the participating schools (see Table 1 for more information about each school). In previous work that utilized a portion of these data, a different conceptual framework, and different analytic strategy, we examined the role of each individual school in fostering the SPD of the youth (Seider, Tamerat, Clark, & Soutter, 2017).…”

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Fostering the Sociopolitical Development of African American and Latinx Adolescents to Analyze and Challenge Racial and Economic Inequality

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Sociopolitical development refers to the processes by which an individual acquires the knowledge, skills, and commitment to analyze and challenge oppressive social forces. A growing body of scholarship reports that high levels of sociopolitical development are predictive in adolescents of a number of key outcomes including resilience and civic engagement. The present study explored the role that urban secondary schools can play in fostering adolescents’ sociopolitical development through a longitudinal, mixed-methods investigation of more than 400 adolescents attending “progressive” and “no-excuses” high schools. Analyses revealed that, on average, students attending progressive high schools demonstrated meaningful growth in their ability to critically analyze racial and economic inequality, while students attending no-excuses high schools demonstrated meaningful growth in their motivation to challenge these inequities through activism. Qualitative interviews offered insight into youth’s perceptions of the programming and practices at their respective schools that contributed to their sociopolitical development.

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“…Specifically, among youth of African ancestry, data suggest that civic related actions contribute to both youth development (Sherrod et al, 2010) and the development of their communities (Watts & Flanagan, 2007). Data also suggest that an activism-oriented humanities curriculum that supports the development of particular character strengths (e.g., critical thinking about racial oppression as interpersonal, institutional, and internalized oppression) foster critical consciousness among youth to challenge oppressive systems (Seider et al, 2017). The crux of critical consciousness, thus, demands increasing the abilities of community members to address commonly identified concerns and taking action to challenge oppressive forces.…”

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Community Healing and Resistance Through Storytelling: A Framework to Address Racial Trauma in Africana Communities

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Journal of Black Psychology

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Racial trauma, an ongoing consequence of historical trauma, has deleterious effects on the well-being of Africana communities. The psychological literature primarily reflects individual processes in the relationship between racial trauma and healing. Going beyond individualistic approaches, we present a community healing framework informed by multidisciplinary scholarship: Community Healing and Resistance Through Storytelling ( C-HeARTS). Three major components of the framework are delineated: (a) justice as both a condition of and an outcome of community healing; (b) culturally syntonic processes (i.e., storytelling and resistance) that direct the renarrating of trauma and act as conduits for transformation; and (c) psychological dimensions (i.e., connectedness, collective memory, and critical consciousness) that promote justice-informed outcomes. In the C-HeARTS framework, community is advanced as an agent of change while centering justice and the important role of cultural practices to facilitate community healing.

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“…Through this shift, critical consciousness addresses multi-level (i.e., personal, communal, societal levels) and systemic (i.e., housing, employment, criminal justice systems) inequity (Freire [1970(Freire [ ] 2000. As a result, critical consciousness has been used in research to examine a broad range of health, social, and educational disparities (Campbell and MacPhail 2002;Jemal et al 2019aJemal et al , 2020bMcGirr and Sullivan 2017;Windsor et al 2014a) and is associated with a host of desirable individuallevel outcomes among marginalized people (Chronister and McWhirter 2006;Diemer and Blustein 2006;Diemer and Li 2011;Hatcher et al 2010;Seider et al 2017). Thus, the construct of critical consciousness has important scholarly, practice, and policy implications.…”

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Healing Lives in Community: The Integrated Transformative Potential Intervention Development (InTrePID) Method

Jemal¹

2021

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This conceptual paper introduces the Integrated Transformative Potential Intervention Development (InTrePID) Method. InTrePID is a method that social problem solvers can use to develop interventions (practices, programs, policies, culture) that translate the critical transformative potential development framework into concrete practice steps: (1) dialogue, (2) critical participatory action research initiatives, (3) skill building, and (4) critical action project implementation. The purpose of the InTrePID method is to develop each prong of the Critical Transformative Potential Development Framework: consciousness (awareness), accountability/responsibility, efficacy (ability), and action. The framework is theorized to bridge the gap between critical consciousness and critical action needed to transform and address dehumanizing realities that harm the self, relationships, and the community. In essence, InTrePID should generate a cyclical process for participants to increase awareness of individual and systemic factors that perpetuate interpersonal and community violence; take responsibility for (in)actions that perpetuate dehumanization and accountability for implementing solutions; develop efficacy in individual and collective community/cultural organizing skills; and, practice solution-oriented multi-level action. The paper highlights the work of a community-based project as an example of one way to implement the method to support community members in healing from the harm of dehumanization by addressing the violence of living in a dehumanizing society.

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Investigating Adolescents’ Critical Consciousness Development through a Character Framework

Cited by 32 publications

References 35 publications

Fostering the Sociopolitical Development of African American and Latinx Adolescents to Analyze and Challenge Racial and Economic Inequality

Fostering the Sociopolitical Development of African American and Latinx Adolescents to Analyze and Challenge Racial and Economic Inequality

Community Healing and Resistance Through Storytelling: A Framework to Address Racial Trauma in Africana Communities

Healing Lives in Community: The Integrated Transformative Potential Intervention Development (InTrePID) Method

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