communication, collaboration, and credibility- empowering marginalized youth through learning 21 st...
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“…to just reach farther…”
Communication, Collaboration, and Credibility-Empowering Marginalized Youth Through Learning 21st-Century Skills.
Dr. Vera Jacobson-Lundeberg
“I have also learned that the inseparable twin of racial injustice was economic injustice.”
Carson/King
Equity Stance
The education system is not meeting the current demands of students and the globalized world
21st-Century Skills are invaluable for all students to succeed in both College & Career
21st Century Skills are undervalued and under-rated in the present educational system
The Problem Statement
“…the best measure of opportunity is access to a good job” --President Obama 2014
“Roughly half of all young Americans arrive in their mid-twenties without skills or
labor market credentials essential for success in today's
increasingly demanding economy."
--Pathways to Prosperity
Problem Statement II
“Each child is a unique person, with unique needs, and the purpose of the educational system of this state is to enable each child to develop all of his or her own potential.”
—Ed Code 33080
Purpose of Education
History of Public & Vocational Education
Career & Technical Education
CTE as Sustainable Reform
Cultural Capital Theory
21st-century Globalized
World
21st-century Skills
Literature Review Framework
Cultural Capital Theory Bourdieu 1977 Bourdieu & Passeron 1979 Anyon & Perez 2009 Lamont & Lareau 1988 Moss & Tilly 1995 Yosso 2005 Code Switching O’Neal & Ringler 2010
Literature Review
21st-
Century Skills
Employability Skills
Academic Skills
Social Skills
21st Century Behavioral Competencies (Bancino, Trilling, Overtoom, Moss & Tilly, SCANS)
Qualitative study—“the researcher seeks to establish the meaning of
a phenomenon from the views of the participants”—Creswell 2009
Student perceptions of their experiences with 21st-century education—meaning was co-constructed by the researcher and participants
“It is important to communicate because you want to know what is going on.”--April
Methodology
1. What personal changes have students experienced with 21st-century competencies, namely communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, or courage?
2. How have these changes influenced the students’ personal, family, school, and/or community life?
3. How have the students comprehended, used realistically and incorporated these skills?
Research Questions
BUILD-- BUSINESS UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING, & DEVELOPING.
An entrepreneurial afterschool intervention program that serves marginalized populations.
Hybrid—9th grade in the school system then subsequent grades are off campus as an afterschool program.
Social justice philosophy. The BUILD mission states, “to use
entrepreneurship education to excite and propel disengaged, low income students through high school to college success”.
BUILD
Pilot Study Dissertation Log Recruitment Interviews Informal Observations Participants’ Data Participants’ Journals Focus Groups
Research Design
“I don’t know, they’re just kind of closed. Because it’s like, my city is low income and a lot of people don’t believe—a lot of people don’t have the motivation to succeed. And like, I don’t know how to say it. They don’t believe in themselves and they’re just like school is whack, I’m just going to go hang with my homies there. There’s a lot of violence. In the past month three people already got killed because of gang violence and not being engaged in something other than violence. It’s just like they’re closed to different opportunities that they actually have.”
--Ronesha
Participants Speak
Communication—a gateway skill“I have been able to present my ideas in
a way to make them easily understood and to get my point across faster.”
--Bobbie
Findings One
Collaboration-a gateway skill
“Create stronger and better ideas for success to just reach farther”
FindingsTwo
Credibility
“to make sure they understood what I was saying, and all the answers came out to what I wanted it to be. So a lot of them were understanding my point.” Bobby
FindingsThree
These skills are not just employability skills to obtain a job. This type of sophisticated education is about human empowerment leading to dignity; teaching students how to access the power that lies within them to obtain their dignity.
“…just get what you need to do done, no matter what.” Rosa
Findings
Self-Empowerment Human Dignity
Simply said, effective communication leads to self empowerment which creates respectful, dignified human interactions
A vision of possibilities
“They first met up on Facebook or some otherChatting site and then theyCan connect in reality.”
Equity, Policy, Programming
Academic Developmen
t
Career & TechnicalDevelopment
Personal Development
Where will it lead…?“It is better with a group of minds with different knowledge.--Bobby”
Project Based Learning Longitudinal Studies Other CTE Studies Other 21st-century skills Assessment tools Teacher Training Programs
“I had to be able to speak loudly and use good hand gestures so they understand what I’m trying to talk about—so that they could understand and comprehend everything that I was trying to get across to them.”--Donny
Recommendations
For me it’s necessary to be teaching it in school because where I come from, it’s like, its different because—well, not different—but most people are not exposed to these types of good skills that they should be having.
--Ronesha
One last voice…
