民族研究和学生发展:培养种族边缘化的青少年的批判意识
Andres Pinedo1, Gabrielle Kubi2, Aber John Espinoza3
1Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.
Developmental psychology
|October 31, 2024
概括
民族研究教育增强了高中学生的批判性反思. 教师教学和学校社会化是培养批判意识的关键,这是青年发展的重要结果.
科学领域:
- 教育心理学教育心理学
- 教育社会学教育的社会学
- 青年发展研究 青年发展研究
背景情况:
- 民族研究课程旨在将学习与学生的生活联系起来,并分析种族主义,以促进公平.
- 种族研究的一个关键目标是培养批判意识,包括关于不平等的批判性反思,动机和行动.
- 关于种族研究如何影响青少年批判意识的发展的研究有限.
研究的目的:
- 检查参加民族研究的高中生中批判意识的发展.
- 识别支持批判意识发展的情境因素,如关键的学校社会化和教师教学.
- 为有关高中民族研究的实施和价值的政策辩论提供信息.
主要方法:
- 一项纵向混合方法研究,涉及459名九年级学生.
- 通过评估关键意识组件的调查收集的定量数据.
- 从19名学生组成的焦点小组收集了定性数据,以探索细微的经验.
主要成果:
- 与未参加种族研究的同龄人相比,参加种族研究的学生在批判性反思方面表现出更大的增长.
- 定量分析表明所有学生的批判性动机下降,而定性数据表明民族研究参与者出现了批判性动机.
- 批判性学校社会化和教师教学方法被确定为培养批判意识的关键要素.
结论:
- 民族研究对年轻人的批判性反思和潜在的批判性动机产生了积极的影响.
- 该研究强调了支持性的学校环境和有效的教学实践在最大限度地发挥民族研究的好处的重要性.
- 民族研究促进了批判意识,这是一个重要的发展结果,应在教育政策讨论中加以考虑.
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