From Preparation to Practice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Taylor ◽  
Gregor V. Sarkisian
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Career Goals ◽  
Community Psychologist ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Educational Options

Becoming a community psychologist involves formal education in the theory, research, and practice of community psychology. The current chapter is designed to support prospective students interested in pursuing a degree and eventually a career in community psychology. The authors review the types of educational options at both the master’s and doctoral level, how to select the program that is right for you, and the types of preparation you might seek in that program to achieve your career goals. Throughout this chapter, the authors provide suggestions to support one’s professional development, suggestions they have personally found effective in their work with students.

scholarly journals Teaching Adult Immigrants with Limited Formal Education: Theory, Research, and Practice. 2020. Edited by Peyton, Joy K. and Young-Scholten Martha. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 208p; ISBN: 978-1-78309-996-2

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Vanesa Alonso González
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Speakers Of Other Languages ◽  
Adult Immigrants ◽  
Theory Research

Teaching Adult Immigrants with Limited Formal Education: Theory, Research, and Practice is a compendium of the six modules that were the result of the third phase of the EU-Speak Project, European Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching Adult Migrants and Training Their Teachers, an ambitious collaborative research project carried out by several European and American universities with the purpose of orienting second language educators whose target pupils are immigrant second language learners with limited education and literacy. Each chapter covers different linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and pedagogical issues in order to offer a complete guide to those interested in teaching a second language to this particular group of learners. As a result, the book presents itself as a link between researchers, teachers, policy-makers, and administrators with the common aim of integrating these learners as active members of their new countries through the acquisition of their new languages.

Roots and Routes Toward Decoloniality Within and Outside Psychology Praxis

2021 ◽  
pp. 108926802110024
Author(s):  
Jesica Siham Fernández ◽  
Christopher C. Sonn ◽  
Ronelle Carolissen ◽  
Garth Stevens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Journal Publications ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Mutual Accountability

Recent psychology scholarship has engaged topics of decoloniality, from conferences to journal publications to edited volumes. These efforts are examples of the decolonial turn, a paradigm shift oriented to interrupting the colonial legacies of power, knowledge, and being. As critical community psychologists, we contend that decoloniality/decolonization is an epistemic and ontological process of continuously disrupting the coloniality of power that is the hegemonic Western Eurocentric approach to theory, research, and practice. To document and critically understand this process of colonial disruption—the roots and routes toward decoloniality within and outside of community psychology—we collected information at conference workshops and an open-ended online survey disseminated across international contexts. Through an analysis of two conference workshops (Chile; United States) and a survey, we describe four orientations that capture how participants engage with a decolonizing praxis. The four orientations include Generating knowledge With and from Within, Sociohistorical Intersectional Consciousness, Relationships of Mutual Accountability, and Unsettling Subjectivities of Power/Privilege. The coloniality of power, which characterizes the ethics and tensions within the discipline, is uprooted through these orientations, thereby enabling possibilities to trek a route away from colonial theory, research, and practice, and toward the decolonial turn in community psychology.

Youth Organizing for Social Change: Theory, Research, and Practice

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seema Shah ◽  
Sara McAlister ◽  
Kavitha Mediratta ◽  
Roderick Watts ◽  
Obari Cartman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Change Theory ◽  
Youth Organizing ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Social Change Theory ◽  
Theory Research
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