TY - JOUR
T1 - Youth sociopolitical development
T2 - A conceptual framework by racial and gender minoritized youth organizers
AU - Malorni, Angie
AU - Dolan, Shae
AU - Hong, Andrew
AU - Joseph, Naima
AU - Mohamed, Khalid
AU - Moore, Liana
AU - Phan, Linda
AU - Skoglund, Ireland
AU - Too, Iris
AU - Wittman, Sidonie
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. American Journal of Community Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Community Research and Action.
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - Youth sociopolitical development (SPD) is a powerful protective and promotive factor for marginalized adolescents' social, emotional, physical, and academic well-being. Despite having unique insight and experiential knowledge about SPD processes, youth have been excluded from conceptual framework and model development. As part of a Youth Participatory Action Research project, 11 adolescents (ages 14–19) and one adult ask “How do adolescent community organizers with varying social and political experiences conceptualize youth SPD?” We used a multiple case study design, with a grounded theory analytic approach. The YPAR collective identified four interrelated, experiential domains of youth SPD: thinking, feeling, doing and relating. Within each domain, we identified and defined key constructs and practices. The YPAR collective's qualitative inquiry resulted in more nuance for existing frameworks of critical consciousness and critical action, and the collective pushes the SPD field to better integrate social and emotional aspects of SPD practice. They offer a conceptual framework that is rooted in their experiential, sensory, learned, and social knowledge, from a multiple-marginalized positionality. These insights enrich the fields of SPD research and practice.
AB - Youth sociopolitical development (SPD) is a powerful protective and promotive factor for marginalized adolescents' social, emotional, physical, and academic well-being. Despite having unique insight and experiential knowledge about SPD processes, youth have been excluded from conceptual framework and model development. As part of a Youth Participatory Action Research project, 11 adolescents (ages 14–19) and one adult ask “How do adolescent community organizers with varying social and political experiences conceptualize youth SPD?” We used a multiple case study design, with a grounded theory analytic approach. The YPAR collective identified four interrelated, experiential domains of youth SPD: thinking, feeling, doing and relating. Within each domain, we identified and defined key constructs and practices. The YPAR collective's qualitative inquiry resulted in more nuance for existing frameworks of critical consciousness and critical action, and the collective pushes the SPD field to better integrate social and emotional aspects of SPD practice. They offer a conceptual framework that is rooted in their experiential, sensory, learned, and social knowledge, from a multiple-marginalized positionality. These insights enrich the fields of SPD research and practice.
KW - critical consciousness
KW - participatory research
KW - sociopolitical development
KW - youth
KW - youth organizing
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U2 - 10.1002/ajcp.12729
DO - 10.1002/ajcp.12729
M3 - Article
C2 - 38151829
SN - 0091-0562
VL - 73
SP - 473
EP - 489
JO - American Journal of Community Psychology
JF - American Journal of Community Psychology
IS - 3-4
ER -