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Washington, Kenneth R. – Journal of Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, 1976
Counselors who are really interested in motivating urban youth must come to recognize the importance of a strength-oriented approach to guidance. They must stop talking about deficits and, instead, identify and use the unique strengths of urban adolescents. Success counseling is one technique that can be used to facilitate this process. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Black Community, Counseling, Perception
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Direct linkBeachum, Floyd D.; McCray, Carlos R. – Current Issues in Education, 2004
Young African Americans face several critical issues such as dire economic circumstances, peer pressure, random violence, and feelings of alienation from the cultural mainstream in America. Black popular culture for these youth creates a value system born out of these same issues. This analysis will address the influence of Black popular culture…
Descriptors: African Americans, Urban Schools, Popular Culture, Values
Download full textMarcon, Rebecca A. – 1997
The Erikson Psychosocial Inventory (EPSI) (Rosenthal, Gurney, and Moore, 1981) was introduced into a longitudinal study of 234 previously studied inner-city children as they were scheduled to make the transition from elementary to junior high school. Compared to the EPSI original Australian sample, inner-city African American 12- and 13-year-olds…
Descriptors: Black Students, Child Development, Early Adolescents, Elementary Education
Shoffner, S. M.; Peterson, G. W. – 1986
This report presents questionnaires that were used in three phases of a longitudinal study of career aspirations and attainments among low income youth and of their mothers' aspirations for them. The subjects were interviewed in 1969, when they were in the fifth and sixth grades, in 1975, and in 1979. Participants were members of three low income…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth
Petersen, Anne C.; And Others – 1978
The 1978 study, which was the first to use the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire (OSIQ) with rural youth, compared the self-image of rural and urban adolescent girls and sustained the hypothesis that adolescents in larger communities think more highly of themselves than adolescents in rural communities. Most previous studies, ambiguous with regard to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Community Size, Demography
Weisner, Thomas S., Ed. – University of Chicago Press, 2005
"Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development" provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Family Life, Qualitative Research
