Building Community Group Intervention: Exploring Outcomes on Multicultural and Civic Engagement Skills with Upper Elementary Students
| Autor: | Whitney V. Walker, Amy L. Cook, Lauren Brodsky, Bernalyn Ruiz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Community group
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences School psychology 050301 education Face (sociological concept) Educational psychology General Medicine Multiculturalism Intervention (counseling) Pedagogy Civic engagement 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Positive Youth Development 0503 education 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Contemporary School Psychology. 25:426-442 |
| ISSN: | 2161-1505 2159-2020 |
| Popis: | As students living in urban communities face unique challenges, social-emotional programming is needed that fosters multicultural enrichment and civic engagement. We developed and pilot tested Building Community, a small group intervention, to foster multicultural and civic engagement skills. Building Community is a culturally relevant short-term group intervention for upper elementary-aged students that draws upon the multicultural literature and Six Cs positive youth development and civic engagement research as reported by Zarrett and Lerner (Child Trends 11:1–5, 2008). A convergent parallel mixed methods design was used to explore outcomes on multicultural development and civic engagement among five ethnically diverse elementary-aged students. Findings suggested an emerging sense of multicultural development and expanding awareness of ways to engage in the community. Although quantitative analyses revealed little change, there was a small increase in the Civic Attitudes subscale that corresponded with qualitative themes from interviews and artifacts. Implications for school psychologists and practitioners working with multiculturally diverse students are described. |
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