Confronting School’s Contradictions With Video: Youth’s Need of Agency for Ontological Development

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Main Author: Lara Margaret Beaty
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spelling doaj.art-d3a0786bf747470c837b0da3616332ab2023-01-02T16:37:18ZengThe Outlines AssociationOutlines1399-55101904-02102013-01-011414256822Confronting School’s Contradictions With Video: Youth’s Need of Agency for Ontological DevelopmentLara Margaret Beaty0LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.OutlinesAbstracttext, li.OutlinesAbstracttext, div.OutlinesAbstracttext {mso-style-name:"Outlines Abstract text"; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; font-style:italic; mso-bidi-font-style:normal;} p.OutlinesAbstracttextCxSpFirst, li.OutlinesAbstracttextCxSpFirst, div.OutlinesAbstracttextCxSpFirst {mso-style-name:"Outlines Abstract textCxSpFirst"; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-type:export-only; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; font-style:italic; mso-bidi-font-style:normal;} p.OutlinesAbstracttextCxSpMiddle, li.OutlinesAbstracttextCxSpMiddle, div.OutlinesAbstracttextCxSpMiddle {mso-style-name:"Outlines Abstract textCxSpMiddle"; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-type:export-only; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; font-style:italic; mso-bidi-font-style:normal;} p.OutlinesAbstracttextCxSpLast, li.OutlinesAbstracttextCxSpLast, div.OutlinesAbstracttextCxSpLast {mso-style-name:"Outlines Abstract textCxSpLast"; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-type:export-only; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; font-style:italic; mso-bidi-font-style:normal;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --> <p class="OutlinesAbstracttext"><em><span lang="EN-GB">A basic contradiction in education is that while education and guidance from people with more knowledge is necessary for the development of higher psychological functioning, the constraints imposed on student activity often become a hindrance to development. This contradiction is revealed in how youth participate in video production programs and becomes analyzable because video production brings the conflict to the surface. During video production, students often act with greater agency than they do in other school activities. This shift evokes the agency|structure dialectic as the root of tensions surrounding authority, collaboration, and youth cultures. Based on data from five programs, a comparison of different cases demonstrates how schools damage motivation and initiative, neglect to connect with students and their worlds, and teach passivity while emphasizing an individualistic conception of human activity. New understandings of agency and its connections to the individual|social dialectic are urged. Based on a Vygotskian concept of development as overcoming contradictions, the relationships youth have within school are viewed as an essential part of development, requiring a theoretical shift from individualistic ideas of agency and a clearer connection between youth problems and societal contradictions.</span></em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;" lang="en-US"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;" lang="en-US"> </p>http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/outlines/article/view/5796youth developmentvideo productionstudent-school relationshipsCHAT
spellingShingle Lara Margaret Beaty
Confronting School’s Contradictions With Video: Youth’s Need of Agency for Ontological Development
Outlines
youth development
video production
student-school relationships
CHAT
title Confronting School’s Contradictions With Video: Youth’s Need of Agency for Ontological Development
title_full Confronting School’s Contradictions With Video: Youth’s Need of Agency for Ontological Development
title_fullStr Confronting School’s Contradictions With Video: Youth’s Need of Agency for Ontological Development
title_full_unstemmed Confronting School’s Contradictions With Video: Youth’s Need of Agency for Ontological Development
title_short Confronting School’s Contradictions With Video: Youth’s Need of Agency for Ontological Development
title_sort confronting school s contradictions with video youth s need of agency for ontological development
topic youth development
video production
student-school relationships
CHAT
url http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/outlines/article/view/5796
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