"Power in Numbers": Youth Organizing as a Context for Exploring Civic Identity

Autor/in	Kirshner, Ben
Titel	"Power in Numbers": Youth Organizing as a Context for Exploring Civic Identity
Quelle	In: Journal of Research on Adolescence, 19 (2009) 3, S.414-440 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1050-8392
DOI	10.1111/j.1532-7795.2009.00601.x
Schlagwörter	Citizenship Education; Urban Youth; African Americans; Asian Americans; Educational Improvement; High Schools; Ethnography; Interviews; Adolescents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Urban area; Urban areas; Youth; Stadtregion; Stadt; Jugend; Afroamerikaner; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; High school; Oberschule; Ethnografie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	This study examines civic identity exploration among African-American and Asian-American urban youth who participated in a grassroots organizing campaign to improve their local high schools. Drawing on 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, the study found that the campaign provided a venue for participants to wrestle with contrasting perspectives about the relationship between the individual and the broader public. The first perspective, which I call "atomism," described local social relations as individualistic and self-interested. The second perspective, which I call "collective agency," emphasized that people should work together toward common goals and that the more people who were involved, the more powerful the effort would be. Implications of youth organizing for civic identity formation are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10