A Typology of Youth Civic Engagement in Urban Middle Schools

Autor/inn/en	Voight, Adam; Torney-Purta, Judith
Titel	A Typology of Youth Civic Engagement in Urban Middle Schools
Quelle	In: Applied Developmental Science, 17 (2013) 4, S.198-212 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1088-8691
DOI	10.1080/10888691.2013.836041
Schlagwörter	Urban Areas; Classification; Youth Opportunities; Citizen Participation; Early Adolescents; Middle School Students; Student Surveys; Case Records; Social Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Academic Achievement; Attendance; Intellectual Disciplines; Adolescent Attitudes; Student Behavior; Learner Engagement; Social Justice; Tennessee + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Stadtregion; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Schülerbefragung; Case reports; Fallsammlung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Schulleistung; Anwesenheit; Geisteswissenschaften; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Abstract	Youth civic engagement occupies a central space in applied developmental science. However, understanding of the processes and contexts in which early adolescents become civically engaged is still limited. This study draws on a sample of approximately 4,000 students from 11 urban middle schools in Tennessee to address several gaps in the civic engagement literature. First, we use latent class analysis to identify types of civic engagement in early adolescence. Second, we explore associations between types of engagement and youth behavioral and academic outcomes. Third, we focus on urban youth. A latent class analysis using survey items suggests a three-class structure for civic engagement in urban middle schools. One distinction is between students who are engaged and those who are not. Another distinction is that, among the engaged groups, one is engaged both behaviorally and attitudinally (social justice actors), whereas another has strong civic attitudes but infrequent civic behaviors (social justice sympathizers). (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10