ERIC Number: EJ1436480
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0094-0771
EISSN: EISSN-2327-6223
Critical Socio-Emotional Inquiry: A Longitudinal Oral History Project Led by Middle School Students on Socio-Emotional Well-Being
Samuel Finesurrey; Ixchel De Dios; Abigail Eusebio; Aslyn Harvey; Viviana Houck-Loomis; Alison Mosquera; Anjali Narine; Nathaniel Santiago; Branden Solomon; Juliette Vargas Hernandez
Middle School Journal, v55 n4 p8-24 2024
A group of middle school students, working with educators in Washington Heights, NYC, designed a school-wide oral history project as a strategy to enrich the cultural and socio-emotional well-being of our school. As part of New York State's required SEL intervention, we developed a Longitudinal Oral History Project, led by middle school students at S2, where we gathered peer-to-peer narratives about socio-emotional dynamics from middle schoolers growing up in working-class and immigrant households in times of pandemic and racial uprisings. The oral history protocol, the implementation of the interviews, the analysis, and the presentation of our results were youth-led, and compelling. Narrating rich and complex stories of joy, fear, courage, and care, our project centers the expertise of immigrant students of color, coming out of COVID-19 in the throes of early adolescence. The youth found great relief in discovering that their fears and anxieties were widespread and experienced a sense of power by influencing school policy with the compelling results of their inquiry.
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Oral History, Interviews, Social Emotional Learning, Peer Influence, Caring, Working Class, Immigrants, COVID-19, Pandemics, Racial Discrimination, Active Learning, Action Research
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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