Engaging Young Adolescents in Social Action through Photovoice: The Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) Project

Autor/inn/en	Wilson, Nance; Dasho, Stefan; Martin, Anna C.; Wallerstein, Nina; Wang, Caroline C.; Minkler, Meredith
Titel	Engaging Young Adolescents in Social Action through Photovoice: The Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) Project
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 27 (2007) 2, S.241-261 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431606294834
Schlagwörter	Social Action; Social Change; Empowerment; Neighborhoods; Early Adolescents; After School Programs; Student Projects; Citizen Participation; Student Participation; School Community Relationship; Photography; Social Problems; Grade 5; Low Income Groups; High Risk Students; Writing Assignments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziales Handeln; Sozialer Wandel; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Schulprojekt; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Fotografie; Social problem; Soziales Problem; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Problemschüler
Abstract	The Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) project is an afterschool empowerment program and research project for underserved early adolescents. Central to YES! is an empowerment intervention that provides early adolescents with opportunities for civic engagement with other youth around issues of shared concern in their schools and neighborhoods. This article specifically focuses on the use of Photovoice as a promising way to engage youth in social change as they take photos capturing strengths and issues in their environment and use these as the basis of critical dialogue and collective action plans. Adding to a growing body of information on using Photovoice, this article reports how early adolescents in the YES! afterschool program experienced the Photovoice process, moving from photography and writing to initiate group-designed social action projects. Recommendations are offered for others engaged in empowerment work with early adolescents. (Contains 2 tables and 3 figures.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10