Luke J Rapa
Biographic Data
| ID | 250393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke J Rapa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rapa |
| SIGNATURE | RAPA L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2956-8604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Open Classroom Climate: A Developmental Asset and Necessary Feature of Public Schools
In this paper, we apply the principles of Relational-Developmental Systems to explain the role classrooms and schools play in youths’ adaptive development. Taking an applied developmental perspective, we argue that an open classroom climate —where students perceive teachers to be supportive of diverse perspectives and welcoming of discussion about controversial social and political issues—is both a developmental asset and a necessary feature of c…
Predictors of Offense Severity, Adjudication, Incarceration, and Repeat Referrals for Juveniles: A Multi-Cohort Replication Study
Although the number of arrests, court-processed cases, and the number of juveniles detained have dramatically decreased in recent decades, concern about repeat offending remains a persistent challenge. The authors examined predictors of offense severity, judicial disposition (e.g., diversion, prosecution, incarceration), and repeat offending. Data were obtained on 65,064 juveniles born between 1995 and 2002 from the South Carolina Department of J…
Critical Consciousness: Expanding Theory and Measurement
Critical consciousness represents the analysis of inequitable social conditions, the motivation to effect change, and the action taken to redress perceived inequities. Scholarship and practice in the last two decades have highlighted critical consciousness as a key developmental competency for those experiencing marginalization and as a pathway for navigating and resisting oppression. This competency is more urgent than ever given the current soc…
Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth: Contexts and Settings
Critical consciousness is the ability to critically analyse societal inequities and to develop the motivation and agency to promote social change. While there has been a proliferation of empirical work on critical consciousness over the last two decades, this is the first volume to consider how we can support youth's critical consciousness development – their ability to recognize and fight injustice. Leading scholars address some of the field's m…
Critical Consciousness: Expanding Theory and Measurement
Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth: Contexts and Settings
An exploration of teens' perspectives of poverty through photovoice: Implications for counselors
Researchers explored teens' perspectives of poverty in their environments through a qualitative participatory action research method called photovoice. Six themes emerged from the data reflecting teens' experiences with poverty: (1) materialistic world and discrepancies, (2) ability to care for self and others, (3) racism and discrimination, (4) vandalism and abandonment, (5) community responses, both helpful and not helpful, and (6) ignoring iss…
(Re)examining the effects of open classroom climate on the critical consciousness of preadolescent and adolescent youth
An open classroom climate, one where diverse opinions and discussion of social and political issues are welcome, promotes civic development among youth and fosters critical consciousness. Critical consciousness, defined as the capacity to recognize societal inequity along with the motivation and action taken to challenge such inequity and promote positive social change, also engenders civic development and engagement. Advancements in critical con…
Critical consciousness in children and adolescents: A systematic review, critical assessment, and recommendations for future research
Can a values-affirmation intervention bolster academic achievement and raise critical consciousness? Results from a small-scale field experiment
Critical action as a pathway to social mobility among marginalized youth
Marginalized youth's development occurs in contexts rife with racialized, gendered, and socioeconomic social identity threats and barriers to social mobility. An emergent line of inquiry suggests critical action-a component of critical consciousness, defined as engaging in individual or collective social action to produce social change-may bolster career development for those experiencing marginalization. Yet, the specific mechanisms underlying c…
Development and Validation of the Critical Consciousness Scale
This article details the development and validation of a measure of critical consciousness, defined as the capacity of oppressed or marginalized people to critically analyze their social and political conditions, endorsement of societal equality, and action to change perceived inequities. In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with a diverse sample of youth, resulting in three internally consistent factors: (a) Critical Re…
Unraveling the Complexity of Critical Consciousness, Political Efficacy, and Political Action Among Marginalized Adolescents
This research examines the complex patterns by which distinct dimensions of critical consciousness may lead marginalized adolescents toward distinct forms of political action. Structural equation modeling was applied to nationally representative data from the Civic Education Study (2,811 ninth graders; Mage = 14.6), first establishing the measurement invariance of constructs across samples of poor or working class African American and Latino/a ad…
Critical Consciousness: A Developmental Approach to Addressing Marginalization and Oppression
Grounded in the theory and pedagogy of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, critical consciousness (CC) comprises components of critical reflection, critical motivation, and critical action. CC represents marginalized or oppressed people's analysis of societal inequities and their motivation and actions to redress such inequities. In this article, we introduce the theoretical underpinnings of CC, then look at the conceptualization and measurement of …
Advances in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Critical Consciousness
Development and Validation of the Critical Consciousness Scale
This article details the development and validation of a measure of critical consciousness, defined as the capacity of oppressed or marginalized people to critically analyze their social and political conditions, endorsement of societal equality, and action to change perceived inequities. In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with a diverse sample of youth, resulting in three internally consistent factors: (a) Critical Re…
Advances in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Critical Consciousness
Critical action as a pathway to social mobility among marginalized youth
Marginalized youth's development occurs in contexts rife with racialized, gendered, and socioeconomic social identity threats and barriers to social mobility. An emergent line of inquiry suggests critical action-a component of critical consciousness, defined as engaging in individual or collective social action to produce social change-may bolster career development for those experiencing marginalization. Yet, the specific mechanisms underlying c…
Can a values-affirmation intervention bolster academic achievement and raise critical consciousness? Results from a small-scale field experiment
Advances in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Critical Consciousness
Unraveling the Complexity of Critical Consciousness, Political Efficacy, and Political Action Among Marginalized Adolescents
This research examines the complex patterns by which distinct dimensions of critical consciousness may lead marginalized adolescents toward distinct forms of political action. Structural equation modeling was applied to nationally representative data from the Civic Education Study (2,811 ninth graders; Mage = 14.6), first establishing the measurement invariance of constructs across samples of poor or working class African American and Latino/a ad…
Critical Consciousness: A Developmental Approach to Addressing Marginalization and Oppression
Grounded in the theory and pedagogy of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, critical consciousness (CC) comprises components of critical reflection, critical motivation, and critical action. CC represents marginalized or oppressed people's analysis of societal inequities and their motivation and actions to redress such inequities. In this article, we introduce the theoretical underpinnings of CC, then look at the conceptualization and measurement of …
Development and Validation of the Critical Consciousness Scale
This article details the development and validation of a measure of critical consciousness, defined as the capacity of oppressed or marginalized people to critically analyze their social and political conditions, endorsement of societal equality, and action to change perceived inequities. In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with a diverse sample of youth, resulting in three internally consistent factors: (a) Critical Re…
Critical action as a pathway to social mobility among marginalized youth
Marginalized youth's development occurs in contexts rife with racialized, gendered, and socioeconomic social identity threats and barriers to social mobility. An emergent line of inquiry suggests critical action-a component of critical consciousness, defined as engaging in individual or collective social action to produce social change-may bolster career development for those experiencing marginalization. Yet, the specific mechanisms underlying c…
Critical consciousness in children and adolescents: A systematic review, critical assessment, and recommendations for future research
Can a values-affirmation intervention bolster academic achievement and raise critical consciousness? Results from a small-scale field experiment
(Re)examining the effects of open classroom climate on the critical consciousness of preadolescent and adolescent youth
An open classroom climate, one where diverse opinions and discussion of social and political issues are welcome, promotes civic development among youth and fosters critical consciousness. Critical consciousness, defined as the capacity to recognize societal inequity along with the motivation and action taken to challenge such inequity and promote positive social change, also engenders civic development and engagement. Advancements in critical con…
Critical Consciousness: Expanding Theory and Measurement
Critical consciousness represents the analysis of inequitable social conditions, the motivation to effect change, and the action taken to redress perceived inequities. Scholarship and practice in the last two decades have highlighted critical consciousness as a key developmental competency for those experiencing marginalization and as a pathway for navigating and resisting oppression. This competency is more urgent than ever given the current soc…
Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth: Contexts and Settings
Critical consciousness is the ability to critically analyse societal inequities and to develop the motivation and agency to promote social change. While there has been a proliferation of empirical work on critical consciousness over the last two decades, this is the first volume to consider how we can support youth's critical consciousness development – their ability to recognize and fight injustice. Leading scholars address some of the field's m…
Critical Consciousness: Expanding Theory and Measurement
Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth: Contexts and Settings
An exploration of teens' perspectives of poverty through photovoice: Implications for counselors
Researchers explored teens' perspectives of poverty in their environments through a qualitative participatory action research method called photovoice. Six themes emerged from the data reflecting teens' experiences with poverty: (1) materialistic world and discrepancies, (2) ability to care for self and others, (3) racism and discrimination, (4) vandalism and abandonment, (5) community responses, both helpful and not helpful, and (6) ignoring iss…
Predictors of Offense Severity, Adjudication, Incarceration, and Repeat Referrals for Juveniles: A Multi-Cohort Replication Study
Although the number of arrests, court-processed cases, and the number of juveniles detained have dramatically decreased in recent decades, concern about repeat offending remains a persistent challenge. The authors examined predictors of offense severity, judicial disposition (e.g., diversion, prosecution, incarceration), and repeat offending. Data were obtained on 65,064 juveniles born between 1995 and 2002 from the South Carolina Department of J…
Open Classroom Climate: A Developmental Asset and Necessary Feature of Public Schools
In this paper, we apply the principles of Relational-Developmental Systems to explain the role classrooms and schools play in youths’ adaptive development. Taking an applied developmental perspective, we argue that an open classroom climate —where students perceive teachers to be supportive of diverse perspectives and welcoming of discussion about controversial social and political issues—is both a developmental asset and a necessary feature of c…
Psychology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Critical consciousness (9 works) · Consciousness (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (8 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)