AERA Annual Meeting: A Lever for Equity: Advancing SEL Through Youth Participatory Action Research

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A Lever for Equity: Advancing SEL Through Youth Participatory Action Research

Thu, April 24, 3:35 to 5:05pm MDT (3:35 to 5:05pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 702

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Youth participatory action research (YPAR) is demonstrated to empower students across diverse cultural and racial identities to become more civically engaged, critically conscious, and academically and socially efficacious. Culturally adapted models of social and emotional learning (SEL) also demonstrate positive outcomes for young people, but as a field we are still learning about strategies to strengthen systemic SEL for students across racial and cultural differences. This session highlights four studies that examine the impact of YPAR on youths’ SEL. YPAR can be an effective methodology for exercising SEL skills in young people that creates change in their schools, communities and youth-serving organizations. Our goal is to create a discussion that generates further inquiry around the convergence of YPAR and SEL.

Sub Unit

SIG-Social and Emotional Learning

Chair

Alexandra Skoog-Hoffman, NewSchools Venture Fund

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Discussant

Alexandra Skoog-Hoffman, NewSchools Venture Fund