Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth

Erin B. Godfrey is Associate Professor of Applied Psychology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, USA. She is co-editor of Critical Consciousness: Expanding Theory and Measurement (2023) and an editorial board member for the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. She won NYU Steinhardt's W. Gabriel Carras Research Award in 2013 and NYU Steinhardt's Griffiths Research Award in 2018. Luke J. Rapa is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Human Development at Clemson University, USA. He is co-editor of Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth: Contexts and Settings (2023) and Disproportionality and Social Justice in Education (2022). He was Clemson University's College of Education Junior Researcher of the Year in 2022.

'This groundbreaking book pushes the field by articulating how educators, youth workers, and others can foster critical consciousness across disparate contexts and social identities. By carefully attending to contexts, practices, and possibilities, this volume contributes novel and important ideas about 'the hows' of critical consciousness.' Matt Diemer, University of Michigan, USA

• Introducing the contexts and settings of youth's critical consciousness development Erin B. Godfrey and Luke J. Rapa; Part I. Pedagogical, Curricular and School-Based Contexts: 1. Tools of whiteness and teaching for critical consciousness Daren Graves, Aaliyah El-Amin and Scott Seider; 2. Critical consciousness development in the context of a school-based action civics intervention Parissa J. Ballard, Elena Maker Castro, Juliana E. Karras, Scott Warren and Alison K. Cohen; 3. Critical consciousness in place-based action civics Kathryn Y. Morgan and Brian D. Christens; Part II. Extra-Curricular Contexts: 4. Re-envisioning the 'Big Three': out of school time programs to promote critical consciousness development in youth of color Edmond P. Bowers, Candice W. Bolding, Lidia Y. Monjaras-Gaytan and Bernadette Sánchez; 5. Breaking down the arts: a novel exploration of how varying kinds of arts participation relate to critical consciousness among youth of color Deanna A. Ibrahim, Andrew Nalani and Erin B. Godfrey; 6. Advocacy-based service learning as a context for critical consciousness development Shabnam Javdani, Erin B. Godfrey, Christina Ducat and Selima Jumarali; Part III. Societal Contexts: 7. Critical race consciousness: conceptualizing a model of race-specific critical consciousness among youth Josefina Bañales, Adriana Aldana and Elan C. Hope; 8. The quest for racial justice: an overview of research on racism and critical action for youth of color Elan C. Hope, Channing J. Mathews, Alexis S. Briggs and Anitra R. Alexander; 9. Critical consciousness development among undocumented youth: state of the science, historiography of immigration policy and recommendations for research and practice Germán A. Cadenas, Rafael Martinez Orozco and Carlos Aguilar; 10. Influences of sense of social responsibility, immigrant bargain and immigrant optimism on critical consciousness development among immigrant youth of color Maria Alejandra Arce, Claudia A. Delbasso and Gabriel P. Kuperminc; Concluding thoughts on the role of contexts and settings in youth critical consciousness development Erin B. Godfrey and Luke J. Rapa.