“There's Still Not Justice”: Youth Civic Identity Development amid Distinct School and Community Contexts
By B. Rubin. Teachers College Record, 2007
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Qualitative research describing and theorizing about the emerging civic identities of diverse youth is scarce. This study provides a textured view of how civic identity is constructed and negotiated by racially and socioeconomically diverse adolescents, based on interviews and in-class discussions conducted with students in four public secondary schools. Youth living in distinct contexts come to school-based civic education with varied understandings—shaped by disparate daily experiences—of what it means to be an American citizen and a participant in the civic life of a democracy. This investigator's examination of diverse adolescents’ discussions of their in-school and out-of-school civic experiences suggests a “typology” of civic identity that runs counter to prevalent views of the civic engagement of urban, minority youth. The study illustrates sharp disparities in daily civic experiences of youth from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, and suggests that schools can either hinder or encourage development of engaged, action-oriented civic identities among students from various contexts.
Subfields: Communication, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science
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- The Role of Sociopolitical Attitudes and Civic Education in the Civic Engagement of Black Youth (2014, background): “Rubin (2007) found a link between perceived discrimination and increased efficacy for future civic behavior.”
- Civic Purpose: An Integrated Construct for Understanding Civic Development in Adolescence (2015, background): “As a developmental outcome, civic purpose is dynamically intertwined with another construct widely known to play a key role in sustained civic participation: civic identity [Hart et al., 2007; Rubin, 2007; Youniss et al., 1997].”