Leading for Equity with Critical Consciousness: How School Leaders Can Cultivate Awareness, Efficacy, and Critical Action

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Cristina L. Lash ◽  
Jafeth E. Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Critical Action

Early Adolescent Critical Consciousness Development in the Age of Trump

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-308
Author(s):  
Heather Kennedy ◽  
Savahanna Matyasic ◽  
Lynn Schofield Clark ◽  
Corey Engle ◽  
Yolanda Anyon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Early Adolescent ◽  
After School ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Consciousness Development ◽  
Political Events ◽  
After School Program ◽  
Critical Action

Political elections have been shown to influence youth civic development. The election of Donald Trump is historic and has elevated precarity for people of color and immigrants, yet we know little about how young people with these identities experienced this potentially catalytic event. Using ethnographic methods, we examined youth and adult discussions that occurred during youth participatory action research in four sites of one after-school program between October 2016 and May 2017, to investigate how the development of critical consciousness occurs among early adolescent youth of color in the context of catalyzing political events. We identified emergent patterns in how young people (a) engaged in critical reflection, (b) weighed political efficacy, and (c) considered engagement in critical action in the wake of Trump’s election. The data revealed that young people’s critical consciousness development ranged from basic to advanced levels. This research highlights the ways that politically catalytic events shape critical consciousness development among early adolescents of color.

scholarly journals Critical Positive Youth Development: A Framework for Centering Critical Consciousness

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 24-43
Author(s):  
Maru Gonzalez ◽  
Michael Kokozos ◽  
Christy M. Byrd ◽  
Katherine E. McKee
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Critical Action ◽  
Critical Understanding

While positive youth development (PYD) has proven beneficial in developing youth’s strengths, fomenting youth–adult partnerships, and cultivating leadership, missing from the framework is a critical understanding of the role and impact of power, privilege, and oppression on young people’s development and lived experiences. To address this absence, we developed a critical positive youth development (CPYD) framework. Bridging positive youth development (PYD) with critical theory, CPYD positions critical consciousness—consisting of critical reflection, political efficacy, and critical action—as the 7th C of PYD and as integral to both the learning process and healthy socioemotional development. This paper introduces the CPYD framework and examines implications and applications for practitioners, including exploring the role of storytelling as an effective method through which to apply CPYD and highlighting one specific example. 

Examining Classism and Critical Consciousness Within Psychology of Working Theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 106907272199841
Author(s):  
Taewon Kim ◽  
Blake A. Allan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Negative Relation ◽  
Critical Action ◽  
Work Volition ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Psychology Of Working

Building from psychology of working theory, this study tested how critical consciousness, composed of perceived inequality, egalitarianism, and critical action, moderate the relations between contextual barriers (i.e., economic constraints and classism) and psychological variables (i.e., work volition and career adaptability) with a sample of 403 employees in the United States. Findings suggested that people who had high egalitarianism had a stronger negative relation between economic constraints and work volition. Results also revealed that people who had low egalitarianism had a negative relation between classism and career adaptability. Regarding critical action, people who had low or moderate levels of critical action had a stronger negative relation between economic constraints and work volition. Moreover, people who had low or moderate levels of critical action had a stronger negative relation between classism and career adaptability. Findings encourage practitioners and employers to consider egalitarianism and critical action as potential targets in vocational interventions.

The Association Between Psychological Well-Being and Intersectional Awareness: Clarifying the Role of Identity Privilege and Critical Consciousness

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
Lydia S. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Black People ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Critical Action

The goal of these 2 studies was to clarify the association between intersectional awareness (IA) and psychological well-being (PWB). Past research on this association has been mixed, with some studies identifying positive well-being outcomes (e.g., Fischer & Good, 2004; Yakushko, 2007) and others identifying negative well-being outcomes (e.g., Curtin et al., 2015; Greenwood, 2008). Study 1 examined the role of identity privilege, predicting that identity privilege would moderate the relationship between IA and well-being. Analyses indicated a positive relationship between IA and well-being, regardless of identity privilege (β = .19). Study 2 examined the role of identity privilege and identity group, as well as the role of critical consciousness and its factors: egalitarianism (CC-Eg) and critical action (CC-CA), predicting that any association between IA and well-being would be present for participants with high CC-CA, and intensified by CC-Eg. Analyses indicated that the overall relationship between IA and well-being was insignificant, but CC-Eg played the most important role in predicting well-being by interacting separately with IA (β = .20) and CC-CA (β = .22). Study 2 found that the association between IA and well-being was positive only for African American and Black people. Studies 1 and 2 suggest that the factors of critical consciousness uniquely interact with IA as it relates to well-being and that this association may be especially important for African American and Black people. These studies provide future researchers and mental health professionals with a framework for understanding how opinions and awareness of intersecting social hierarchies and injustices may be related to PWB.

Critical consciousness of Secondary School Students: An Investigative Survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna P. Varijan
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
School Students ◽  
Structural Improvement ◽  
Critical Action ◽  
The Common ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
New Generation

The whole human race is travelling through an age of exploitation, social, political, economic, cultural and so on. All these ill-treatments influence the daily life of the common man as a considerable issue. Critical consciousness of a person significantly affects the situation. It enables man to critically analyze the structural oppression and to change inequalities within their sociopolitical environments (Freire, 1973, 1993) through critical reflection and critical action. At the same time it keeps them away from victimization. The society expects rattling renovations from the new generation which is the only way for structural improvement of the milieu. All that depends on the critical consciousness of the imminent generation. Hence the study focuses on the mensuration of critical consciousness of secondary school students who represent the impending generation. At the same time the study values the effectiveness of prevailing educational system of the state in developing critical consciousness as the system is said to be rooted in Freirian ideas and concepts and giving prominence to the development of critical consciousness. The present study attempts to chalk out the level of Critical Consciousness among secondary school students of Kerala. Survey method is adopted for the study. Sample constitutes 125 students of standard eighth. Critical consciousness Scale developed by the investigators is used for the data collection. The survey reveals mediocrity of Critical Consciousness among the secondary school students.

Development and Validation of the Critical Consciousness Scale

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Diemer ◽  
Luke J. Rapa ◽  
Catalina J. Park ◽  
Justin C. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Primary Motivation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Critical Action ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Development And Validation

This article details the development and validation of a measure of critical consciousness, defined as the capacity of oppressed or marginalized people to critically analyze their social and political conditions, endorsement of societal equality, and action to change perceived inequities. In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with a diverse sample of youth, resulting in three internally consistent factors: (a) Critical Reflection: Perceived Inequality, (b) Critical Reflection: Egalitarianism, and (c) Critical Action: Sociopolitical Participation. In Study 2, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was completed with a new sample of youth. Strong model fit estimates in Study 2 confirmed the factor structure of Study 1 and resulted in a final 22-item measure called the “Critical Consciousness Scale” (CCS). The CCS has the potential to unite and advance the fragmented conceptualization and measurement of critical consciousness, the primary motivation for the development of the scale.

Critical Consciousness Development

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma Aydin ◽  
Kristen Adams ◽  
Laura Barsigian ◽  
John Bruner ◽  
Chih-Ting Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Consciousness Development

PAR Method

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Billies
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

The work of the Welfare Warriors Research Collaborative (WWRC), a participatory action research (PAR) project that looks at how low income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming (LG-BTGNC) people survive and resist violence and discrimination in New York City, raises the question of what it means to make conscientization, or critical consciousness, a core feature of PAR. Guishard's (2009) reconceptualization of conscientization as “moments of consciousness” provides a new way of looking at what seemed to be missing from WWRC's process and analysis. According to Guishard, rather than a singular awakening, critical consciousness emerges continually through interactions with others and the social context. Analysis of the WWRC's process demonstrates that PAR researchers doing “PAR deep” (Fine, 2008)—research in which community members share in all aspects of design, method, analysis and product development—should have an agenda for developing critical consciousness, just as they would have agendas for participation, for action, and for research.

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