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.

该博士学位论文研究项目调查了面临重大社会挑战的青少年如何为他们的教育愿望和未来目标体验社会支持。这样一来，这个项目就可以更了解支持性实践，从而指导青少年成为自己的身份，以及他们希望过的生活。除了为在经验，科学数据收集和分析方法中培训人类学研究生的培训资金外，该项目还扩大了我们对拉丁裔/A/X社区的科学知识，青年教育轨迹以及在预先条件下对人类希望的人类知识。 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; 2）青少年在各自的学校，房屋和当地社区中对社会支持或缺乏社会支持的现场经历的方式，以告知他们对未来可能性和机会的希望和方向。研究人员采用以人为本的访谈，参与者观察以及焦虑和抑郁筛查量表的青少年版本。数据将进行主题编码和分析，以研究如何支持信息教育动机和对未来的愿望的青少年经历。在日益增加的全球不平等时期，该项目的发现将为改进的科学方法提供蓝图，以改善社会支持在希望研究中的作用，以及结构性暴力对现场经验的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估该基金会的知识分子优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得的。