A Critical Examination of an Urban-Based Youth Empowerment Strategy: The Teen Empowerment Program

Pearrow, Melissa

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“…Data were collected as part of a program evaluation of the project, where participants had been hired or were in the interviewing process to become hired, as community organizers with tasks of providing peer education about social and political activities, such as voter registration, as well as informing others about social concerns and solutions to problems in their neighborhood. Deidentified archival survey data were collected from the CBO (see Pearrow, 2008, for more information).…”

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Comparing Communities: The Cultural Characteristics of Ethnic Social Capital

Pearrow

Sander

Jones

2017

Education and Urban Society

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Social capital includes access to resources based on social networks, similar to how economic capital is access to fiscal resources. We explore ethnic social capital as a variant of social capital that includes the social resources that are available to a person as a result of being a member of an ethnic and cultural network. This study identifies the way that ethnic social capital is important for understanding the resilience of ethnic minority youth in the context of inequality including living in impoverished and high-crime neighborhoods. This study examines social capital in 239 males and females aged 14 to 22 years from a racially and ethnically diverse urban community with neighborhoods impacted by high levels of crime in the northeast United States. Compared with results from a racially homogeneous (non-Hispanic White) population living in an urban area of the Midwest, the diverse sample demonstrated different aspects of social capital that are highly correlated with the cultural value of collectivism. Specifically, the diverse sample showed significantly higher participation in their community and reaching out to support others. The sample in the Midwest, demonstrated greater feelings of safety in the community, greater satisfaction with their position in life, and greater ability to ask others for help. Both samples showed an equal level of tolerance for diversity. Results are discussed in terms of examining the cultural manifestations of ethnic social capital and resilience with ethnic minority populations.

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Comparing Communities: The Cultural Characteristics of Ethnic Social Capital

Pearrow

Sander

Jones

2017

Education and Urban Society

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“…This is due to a few reasons where youth are often disconnected or distracted and sometimes have trust issues with the support systems within the society [1] [4] [9]. Nevertheless, youth engagement remains as one of the key contributors to positive outcomes at various levels including personal (i.e identity and empowerment), social (i.e.…”

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Youth-to-Youth Engagement

2019

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Youth-to-youth engagement develops as well as enhances sense of belonging, autonomy and power control, competence, motivation and decision-making skills. Millennial youth are self-learned generation; thus, peer influence is vital. Based on these premises, GENIUS Remaja programmes are created ‘with youths’ rather than ‘for youth’. GENIUS Remaja programmes have proven to be effective and produced positive results for the participants. Empowerment of youth through personal development trainings as well as participation in addressing community needs help them to become empathic and reflective individuals. Besides that, the programmes instilled good work ethics to ensure success in their future careers. Aspects of rethinking behaviour modification and intervention among reckless bikers (Mat Rempit) via youth-to-youth engagement in positive activities will be explored and shared in this article.

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“…Moreover, they can produce broader ripple effects in the community through wider visibility and by establishing new standards for other organisations (Zeldin 2004;Zeldin, Camino, and Calvert 2012). Pearrow (2008) also notes that communitybased intergenerational programmes have a significant social value not only in terms of youths' engagement with public officials to advocate for their programmes, but also in challenging stereotypes that portray youth as 'difficult', 'problematic' or a threat to the interests of stakeholders (Hilker and Fraser 2009).…”

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Freirean critical consciousness in a refugee context: a case study of Syrian refugees in Jordan

Magee

Pherali

2017

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

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This paper argues that education underpinned by critical pedagogies offers an alternative for engaging with the complexities of conflict, peace and social transformation in refugee contexts. Drawing upon a semi-ethnographic qualitative study with a focus on a non-formal educational programme for supporting Jordanian and Syrian refugee youth, we find that participatory pedagogies provide a promising mechanism for reaching out-of-school refugees in host communities. However, a series of intersecting factors, namely the perception that empowerment education is antithetical to the goal of gaining certification, leads to manipulation of the pedagogies. Hence, empowerment education risks being co-opted by the 'banking model' of education. The paper critiques the dominant market-oriented education and suggests an alternative approach to engage with challenges in refugee contexts.

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A Critical Examination of an Urban-Based Youth Empowerment Strategy: The Teen Empowerment Program

Cited by 33 publications

References 30 publications

Comparing Communities: The Cultural Characteristics of Ethnic Social Capital

Comparing Communities: The Cultural Characteristics of Ethnic Social Capital

Youth-to-Youth Engagement

Freirean critical consciousness in a refugee context: a case study of Syrian refugees in Jordan

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