Poetic Expressions: Students of Color Express Resiliency Through Metaphors and Similes
TL;DR: The after-school City School Outreach youth program captured the attention of high school male students by offering them a physically and psychologically safe environment to talk about issues they faced as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The after-school City School Outreach youth program captured the attention of high school male students by offering them a physically and psychologically safe environment to talk about issues they faced. The students of color who attended the program used various forms of creative written expression (i.e., poetry, spoken word, and hip hop) to document and share their lived realities as African American and Latino youth. An analysis of their writings and subsequent interviews revealed a variety of coping strategies and resources that these resilient adolescent males of color used to transcend adversity in their environment. When adolescent males of color have a strong sense of cultural pride and awareness, they are able to construct a healthy self-concept that assists them in acts of agency and resistance against negative psychological forces in their environment. These students used familial and nonfamilial support mechanisms, such as peers, church, and mentors, to assist them in reducing the stressful im...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the Black Male Development Initiative (BMDI) as a strategy for Black males on campus and discuss their personal experiences and memories of moments where they become aware of similarities and differences among people.
Abstract: Race and Racism w “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” featuring Dr. Beverly Tatum’s book. w “Recovering from Racism: Redefining What it Means to be White.” w “50th Anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education.” w “The Mis-Education of the Negro” featuring Dr. Carter Woodson’s book. w “Moving Past the Margins: Creating successful strategies for Black males on campus,” presenting the Black Male Development Initiative (BMDI). w “He had a Dream... What is Yours?” Addressing Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and its current relevance in our society. w “Demystifying Malcolm X.” w “Racial Stereotyping and Responses to Terrorism.” w “Racial Stereotyping – Responding to Fear.” w “Free, White and (over) 21: Being White in a Multicultural World.” w “Constructing Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century.” w “How did I Learn about Culture and Race?” Sharing your personal experiences and memories of moments where you become aware of similarities and differences among people. w “ABC: American-Born... and Confused?” w “The Invisible Asian: Where are the Asians in Diversity?” w “100 Years of Race Talk: Is It Enough?”
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TL;DR: In this paper, a post-structuralist theory and the study of gendered childhoods are used to identify the subjects of childhood knowledge and reading and writing a vision of femininity.
Abstract: Post-structuralist theory and the study of gendered childhoods the subjects of childhood knowledge and the subjects of reading and writing a vision of femininity? (masculine) transformations sexuality deconstructive reading writing beyond the male-female dualism.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a literature review on the role of school in adolescents' identity development from different research fields and to provide schools and teachers with insights into how adolescents’ identity development can be supported.
Abstract: Schools can play an important role in adolescents’ identity development. To date, research on the role of school in adolescents’ identity development is scattered across research fields that employ different theoretical perspectives on identity. The aim of this literature review was to integrate the findings on the role of school in adolescents’ identity development from different research fields and to provide schools and teachers with insights into how adolescents’ identity development can be supported. Using constant comparative analysis, 111 studies were analyzed. We included articles on personal and social identity and on school-related identity dimensions. Three groups of studies emerged. First, studies on how schools and teachers unintentionally impact adolescents’ identity showed that, at school, messages may unintentionally be communicated to adolescents concerning who they should or can be through differentiation and selection, teaching strategies, teacher expectations, and peer norms. Second, studies on how schools and teachers can intentionally support adolescents’ identity development showed that different types of explorative learning experiences can be organized to support adolescents’ identity development: experiences aimed at exploring new identity positions (in-breadth exploration), further specifying already existing self-understandings (in-depth exploration), and reflecting on self-understandings (reflective exploration). The third group suggests that explorative learning experiences must be meaningful and situated in a supportive classroom climate in order to foster adolescents’ identity development. Together, the existing studies suggest that schools and teachers are often unaware of the many different ways in which they may significantly impact adolescents’ identity development.
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...…(Rogers, Morrell, & Enyedy, 2007; Vianna & Stetsenko, 2011), three ethnographic studies that do not explicitly adopt a particular perspective (Hall, 2007; Hardee & Reyelt, 2009; Muhammad, 2012), and one theoretical study in which various perspectives on identity are combined (Henfield,…...
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...Various theoretical articles, that either do not explicitly mention a perspective on identity development (Hall, 2007), or combine various perspectives on identity development (Harrell-Levy & Kerpelman, 2010; Ligorio, 2010), also argued that engaging adolescents in (internal) dialogues can help…...
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TL;DR: The authors use the notion of White racial framing to move outside of the traditional arguments for or against transracial adoption to instead explore how a close analysis of the adoptive parents’ racial instructions may serve as a learning tool to foster more democratic and inclusive forms of family and community.
Abstract: In this article, the authors examine White parents’ endeavors toward the racial enculturation and inculcation of their transracially adopted Black children. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the authors identify and analyze themes across the specific race socialization strategies and practices White adoptive parents used to help their adopted Black children to develop a positive racial identity and learn how to effectively cope with issues of race and racism. The central aim of this article is to examine how these lessons about race help to connect family members to U.S. society’s existing racial hierarchy and how these associations position individuals to help perpetuate or challenge the deeply embedded and historical structures of White supremacy. The authors use the notion of White racial framing to move outside of the traditional arguments for or against transracial adoption to instead explore how a close analysis of the adoptive parents’ racial instructions may serve as a learning tool to foster more democratic and inclusive forms of family and community.
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...Resiliency is a protective mechanism that is requisite for individuals to successfully struggle against racism (Hall, 2007; Phinney, Cantu, & Kurtz, 1997)....
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TL;DR: The Challenge Model is presented, a new clinical paradigm for evaluating the children of alcoholics and other substance-abusing parents that incorporates both the resilience and the vulnerabilities that can result from struggling with hardship early in life.
Abstract: This article presents the Challenge Model, a new clinical paradigm for evaluating the children of alcoholics and other substance-abusing parents. Unlike traditional risk paradigms, the Challenge Model incorporates both the resilience and the vulnerabilities that can result from struggling with hardship early in life. A developmental vocabulary of strengths is provided for pediatricians to use in research, clinical thinking, and treatment and prevention efforts with COAs.
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...For adolescent males of color, peer groups can be tremendous knowledge bases that foster resiliency, most notably in the absence of adult role models (Wolin & Wolin, 1995)....
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TL;DR: Resiliency Defined How Schools Foster Resiliency in Students Resilient Students Need Resiliient Educators Characteristics of resilience building Schools Changing Schools to Build Resiliencies as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Resiliency Defined How Schools Foster Resiliency in Students Resilient Students Need Resilient Educators Characteristics of Resiliency-Building Schools Changing Schools to Build Resiliency The Change Process in Action Resiliency-Building in Practice Tools to Facilitate Change
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...…students with a breathing space to openly express their identities, they create an atmosphere that advances certain resiliency-building factors—a sense of belonging, feelings of safety and security, mutual respect, and a high self-esteem that is supported by adults (Henderson & Milstein, 2003)....
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...Research indicates that when students begin to see more connections between school and family, they begin to show not only an improved attitude toward their education, but also a greater regard for community and citizens (Berkowitz & Bier, 2005; Spitler et al., 2002)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an intervention framework for Black Boys and Schooling: an Intervention Framework for Solving the Dilemmas of Masculinity, Identity and Underachievement.
Abstract: 1. 50 Years of Failure: 'Race' and Education Policy in Britain David Gillborn 2. The Education of Black Children: Why do Some Schools do Better than Others? M. Blair 3. Academic Disidentification: Unravelling Underachievement among Black Boys Jason W. Osborne 4. The African-centred Worldview - Developing Effective Educational Strategies to Enhance the Development and Achievement of Young People of African Descent Mekada J. Graham 5. Lessons from America: The African American Immersion Schools Experiment Diane S. Pollard and Cheryl S. Ajiortutu 6. Black Supplementary Schools: Spaces of Radical Blackness Dr Diane Reay and Dr Heidi Safia Mirza 7. The Exclusions of Black Children: Implications for a Racialised Perspective Richard Majors, David Gillborn and Tony Sewell 8. Educational Psychology, Equal Opportunities and Exclusions: Towards a New Framework Karl Brooks and Denny Grant 9. Black Exclusions in Moral Vacuum Richard Harris and Carl Parsons 10. Enhancing Achievement in Adolescent Black Males: The Rites of Passage Link Keith A. Alford, Patrick McKenry and Stephen M. Gavazzi 11. An After School Manhood Development Program Aminifu Harvey 12. Black Boys at School: Negotiating Masculinities and Race James Davis 13. Black Boys and Schooling: An Intervention Framework for Solving the Dilemmas of Masculinity, Identity and Underachievement Tony Sewell 14. Mentoring Black Males: Responding to the Crisis in Education and Social Alienation Richard Majors, Vince Wilkinson and Bill Gulam 15. School Based Mentoring for Minority Youth: Program Components and Evaluation Strategies Teresa Garate-Serafini, Fabricio E. Balcazar, Christopher B. Keys and Julie Weitlauf
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...Young people (ages 13–18) experience a host of cognitive, physical, and psychological changes (e.g., puberty, egocentrism, identity formation, peer grouping; Hauser & Kasendorf, 1983)....
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