Fostering Engagement, Reflexivity, and 21st-Century Skills in Middle School: A Pilot Collaborative Action Research on Identity Formation with Adolescent Co-Researchers

Autor/inn/en	Haag, Pascale; Fantoni, Titouan; Dubal, Stéphanie
Titel	Fostering Engagement, Reflexivity, and 21st-Century Skills in Middle School: A Pilot Collaborative Action Research on Identity Formation with Adolescent Co-Researchers
Quelle	In: Journal of Intelligence, 10 (2022), Artikel 64 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Haag, Pascale) ORCID (Fantoni, Titouan)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Learner Engagement; Reflection; 21st Century Skills; Middle School Students; Action Research; Participatory Research; Social Emotional Learning; Foreign Countries; Student Attitudes; Gender Differences; France (Paris) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Projektforschung; Forschungstätigkeit; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	Identity construction during adolescence constitutes a primary psychosocial developmental task. A growing body of research has addressed the importance of school education in fostering adolescents' identity formation and the skills they need to thrive. Although several studies aimed at defining the factors contributing to a coherent, stable, and integrated identity formation, none sought to investigate this question from the adolescents' perspective. This contribution aimed to explore new ways of fostering 21st-century skills among adolescents through action research. Five adolescents aged 13 to 15 participated in the research process, creating a survey to answer a research problem mainly focused on identity construction in adolescence. A reflexive analysis of the co-research process highlighted the interest in involving adolescents as co-researchers to foster their social and emotional skills. The deployment of the resulting survey in a sample of 1210 adolescents from the general population highlighted the importance of gender diversity for constructing various dimensions of identity. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01