TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisiting the Collective in Critical Consciousness
T2 - Diverse Sociopolitical Wisdoms and Ontological Healing in Sociopolitical Development
AU - Sánchez Carmen, Sonia Abigail
AU - Domínguez, Michael
AU - Greene, Andrew Cory
AU - Mendoza, Elizabeth
AU - Fine, Michelle
AU - Neville, Helen A.
AU - Gutiérrez, Kris D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - In this manuscript, we take up a “critical friend” perspective on sociopolitical development (SPD), seeking to expand the field’s understanding of the collective, intersectional, and dialectic qualities and dimensions in which sociopolitical youth development might occur. Specifically, we contribute to thinking around how SPD is conceptualized and deployed in relation to historically marginalized and racialized youth and communities. We offer ethnographic descriptions from two separate empirical investigations conducted with high school, community college, and university students of color to explore (a) the diverse sociopolitical wisdoms that students bring to educational settings, and the extent to which this wisdom can be sharpened collectively in the classroom, and (b) the ontologicalhealing that can take place once these perspectives and knowledges are respected and promoted within educational spaces that take history and power seriously. Our article concludes with firm recommendations to theorists and practitioners concerning how SPD frameworks and practices might better leverage these goals of engaging diverse wisdoms and encouraging ontological healing to highlight the beyond-intellectual process of critical consciousness and liberation.
AB - In this manuscript, we take up a “critical friend” perspective on sociopolitical development (SPD), seeking to expand the field’s understanding of the collective, intersectional, and dialectic qualities and dimensions in which sociopolitical youth development might occur. Specifically, we contribute to thinking around how SPD is conceptualized and deployed in relation to historically marginalized and racialized youth and communities. We offer ethnographic descriptions from two separate empirical investigations conducted with high school, community college, and university students of color to explore (a) the diverse sociopolitical wisdoms that students bring to educational settings, and the extent to which this wisdom can be sharpened collectively in the classroom, and (b) the ontologicalhealing that can take place once these perspectives and knowledges are respected and promoted within educational spaces that take history and power seriously. Our article concludes with firm recommendations to theorists and practitioners concerning how SPD frameworks and practices might better leverage these goals of engaging diverse wisdoms and encouraging ontological healing to highlight the beyond-intellectual process of critical consciousness and liberation.
KW - Community college students
KW - Critical Ethnic Studies
KW - Critical consciousness
KW - Historically marginalized youth
KW - Ontological healing
KW - Sociopolitical development
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U2 - 10.1007/s11256-015-0338-5
DO - 10.1007/s11256-015-0338-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84947614164
SN - 0042-0972
VL - 47
SP - 824
EP - 846
JO - Urban Review
JF - Urban Review
IS - 5
ER -