Cultivating True Leaders: A Social Justice Curriculum for Youth Development Programs
In recent years, there have been increasing calls to intentionally center diversity, equity, and inclusion within positive youth development programs. True Leaders: Culture, Power and Justice is a 4-H curriculum designed to engage young people in understanding and applying social justice concepts wi...
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| author | Kamaria C. Massey Alexander E. Chan Edwin Green, Jr. Maru Gonzalez |
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| description | In recent years, there have been increasing calls to intentionally center diversity, equity, and inclusion within positive youth development programs. True Leaders: Culture, Power and Justice is a 4-H curriculum designed to engage young people in understanding and applying social justice concepts with the ultimate aim of nurturing their sense of self-efficacy as they work to find solutions to pressing social issues. The True Leaders curriculum is shaped by the Five Cs of positive youth development—confidence, competence, connection, caring, and character—and a social justice youth development framework. Each lesson is grounded in the critical experiential learning model, which seeks to move participants through a process of hands-on learning about social justice concepts, critical reflection, and, ultimately, collective action. The True Leaders curriculum is intended for use with middle and high school-aged youth. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1c1b7970e713400c9149e4f53a9fd01f2024-02-02T00:16:40ZengClemson University PressJournal of Youth Development2325-40172021-12-0116526927310.5195/jyd.2021.1189742Cultivating True Leaders: A Social Justice Curriculum for Youth Development ProgramsKamaria C. Massey0Alexander E. Chan1Edwin Green, Jr.2Maru Gonzalez3Morgan State UniversityUniversity of Maryland ExtensionStevenson UniversityNorth Carolina State UniversityIn recent years, there have been increasing calls to intentionally center diversity, equity, and inclusion within positive youth development programs. True Leaders: Culture, Power and Justice is a 4-H curriculum designed to engage young people in understanding and applying social justice concepts with the ultimate aim of nurturing their sense of self-efficacy as they work to find solutions to pressing social issues. The True Leaders curriculum is shaped by the Five Cs of positive youth development—confidence, competence, connection, caring, and character—and a social justice youth development framework. Each lesson is grounded in the critical experiential learning model, which seeks to move participants through a process of hands-on learning about social justice concepts, critical reflection, and, ultimately, collective action. The True Leaders curriculum is intended for use with middle and high school-aged youth.https://jyd.pitt.edu/ojs/jyd/article/view/1189positive youth developmentsocial justice youth development4-hcritical consciousness |
| spellingShingle | Kamaria C. Massey Alexander E. Chan Edwin Green, Jr. Maru Gonzalez Cultivating True Leaders: A Social Justice Curriculum for Youth Development Programs Journal of Youth Development positive youth development social justice youth development 4-h critical consciousness |
| title | Cultivating True Leaders: A Social Justice Curriculum for Youth Development Programs |
| title_full | Cultivating True Leaders: A Social Justice Curriculum for Youth Development Programs |
| title_fullStr | Cultivating True Leaders: A Social Justice Curriculum for Youth Development Programs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cultivating True Leaders: A Social Justice Curriculum for Youth Development Programs |
| title_short | Cultivating True Leaders: A Social Justice Curriculum for Youth Development Programs |
| title_sort | cultivating true leaders a social justice curriculum for youth development programs |
| topic | positive youth development social justice youth development 4-h critical consciousness |
| url | https://jyd.pitt.edu/ojs/jyd/article/view/1189 |
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