Doctoral Dissertation Research: Adolescent Experiences of Social Support in Educational Trajectories

博士论文研究：青少年教育轨迹中社会支持的经历

• 批准号: 2241628
• 负责人: Janis Jenkins
• 金额: $ 3.16万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241628&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Adolescent; Experiences

This doctoral dissertation research project investigates how adolescents living with significant social challenges experience social support for their educational aspirations and future goals. In so doing, this project provides a greater understanding of supportive practices that guide adolescents toward who they could be, and kinds of the lives they hope to lead. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, this project broadens our scientific knowledge of Latino/a/x communities, youth educational trajectories, and the human capacity for hope in adverse conditions. Findings from this research project will also be shared with the communities in which this project takes place, to identify and enhance school policies and social support practices.Through the use of mixed methods for data collection, this project cross-culturally and ethnographically compares from multiple stakeholders 1) how adolescents experience social support within their social environment (home, school, community) and the intersubjective qualities that facilitate this experience for youth; and 2) the ways adolescents’ lived experiences of social support, or lack thereof, in their respective schools, homes, and local communities inform their hopes and orientations toward future possibilities and opportunities. The researcher employs person-centered interviews, participant observation, and adolescent versions of anxiety and depression screening scales. Data will be thematically coded and analyzed to examine how adolescent experiences of support inform educational motivation and aspirations for the future. In a time of increasing global inequities, findings from this project will provide a blueprint for improved scientific approaches toward the role of social support in studies of hope, and of the impress of structural violence on lived experience.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个博士论文研究项目调查了面临重大社会挑战的青少年如何体验社会支持，以实现他们的教育愿望和未来目标。通过这样做，该项目提供了对指导青少年成为什么样的人以及各种类型的支持性实践的更深入的理解。除了为人类学研究生的实证、科学数据收集和分析方法的培训提供资金外，该项目还拓宽了我们对拉丁裔/a/x 社区、青年教育轨迹、以及人类在逆境中抱有希望的能力该研究项目的研究结果还将与该项目所在的社区分享，以确定和加强学校政策和社会支持实践。通过使用混合数据收集方法，该项目进行了跨文化和人种学比较。来自多个利益相关者的信息 1) 青少年如何在其社会环境（家庭、学校、社区）中体验社会支持，以及促进青少年获得这种体验的主体间品质；以及 2) 青少年在生活中体验社会支持或缺乏社会支持的方式；各自的学校，研究人员采用以人为本的访谈、参与观察和青少年版本的焦虑和抑郁筛查量表，对数据进行主题编码和分析，以研究青少年的经历。在全球不平等日益加剧的时代，该项目的研究结果将为改进社会支持在希望研究中的作用以及结构性暴力对生活的影响提供一个蓝图。经验。该奖项反映了通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。