| Youth empowerment in context: Exploring tensions in school-based yPAR. | |
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PMID: 21061056 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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In much of the youth empowerment literature, researchers focus on the relationship between youth and adults involved in empowerment programs while neglecting the broader social framework in which these relationships and the program itself functions. Utilizing an ecological model, the current research examines the tensions that surfaced in attempts to create an empowering setting in an after-school PAR program with fifth-graders. Challenging assumptions about youth, structural challenges, and conflicting theories of change are highlighted. Results examine the role of sociocultural context as PAR researchers attempt to create a setting in which students gain skills to become change agents within their school. The study suggests that youth empowerment is a context dependent process that requires attention to a multiplicity of factors that influence possibilities for empowerment via second order change. |
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Authors:
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Danielle Kohfeldt; Lina Chhun; Sarah Grace; Regina Day Langhout |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
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Title: American journal of community psychology Volume: 47 ISSN: 1573-2770 ISO Abbreviation: Am J Community Psychol Publication Date: 2011 Mar |
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Created Date: 2011-01-21 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0364535 Medline TA: Am J Community Psychol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 28-45 Citation Subset: IM |
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Psychology Department, University of California Santa Cruz, 95064, USA. dkohfeld@ucsc.edu |
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