Scott Seider
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Seider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Seider |
| SIGNATURE | SEIDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7559-7695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
How Multiethnic-Racial Emerging Adults Describe and Understand Their Parents’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices
Despite multiethnic-racial individuals comprising the fastest growing demographic in the United States, relatively little social science research has considered the nuances of ethnic-racial socialization and identity-related processes for this group, though previous work suggests these processes are more complex relative to those occurring in monoethnic-racial families. In this paper, we expand literature in the field of ethnic-racial socializati…
Parental cultural socialization and critical consciousness in two samples of Bipoc and White adolescents
Exploring Black and Latinx Adolescents’ Beliefs About Achievement, Resistance, and Activism
This mixed methods study investigates the beliefs about achievement, resistance, and activism of Black and Latinx adolescents attending six charter high schools in five U.S. cities. We report on both OLS regression analyses of survey data ( n = 344) and thematic analysis of interview data ( n = 26) collected during participants’ final year of high school. Quantitative analyses revealed that youths’ belief that their academic achievement represent…
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…
Ethnic-Racial Socialization in Multiracial Families: Emerging Findings and Future Directions
How Parents in Multiethnic-Racial Families Share Cultural Assets with Their Children
Black and latinx adolescents’ developing understandings about poverty, inequality, and opportunity
This mixed-methods, longitudinal study utilized survey data from a sample of (primarily) Black and Latinx adolescents’ (n = 643) and qualitative interviews with a subset of adolescents (n = 39) to consider changes in adolescents’ beliefs about poverty and economic inequality throughout high school as well as the sources of their beliefs. Adolescents demonstrated significant, linear growth in their beliefs that poverty was caused by structural fac…
Investigating the relation between critical consciousness and academic achievement for adolescents of color and White adolescents
These findings may encourage more K-12 schools and school systems to adopt culturally relevant and sustaining curriculum (such as ethnic studies coursework) that offer more opportunities for youth from both dominant and marginalized identity groups to learn about issues of power, oppression, and resistance to oppression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Associations between hope and trajectories of critical consciousness among U.S. youth of color
We examined associations between hope as an internal asset that supports positive youth development, and growth trajectories of three critical consciousness components. Using five waves of data collected over the course of high school (N = 618), we modeled growth trajectories of awareness of inequity (critical reflection), a sense of agency about taking sociopolitical action (critical agency), and behaviors targeting systems of oppression (critic…
Full Journal
The theme of Issue 34 of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations is Social Justice Action, Teaching, and Research. The first article of this issue, "The Art of Social Justice," features the works of a slam poet, Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, an activist artist, Eduardo Valadez, and an overview of the social science literature capturing the role of art in social justice movements. The two artists featured are both active in their communities and worldwide…
Black and Latinx Adolescents’ Developing Commitment to Antiracist Activism Over Four Years of High School
This qualitative study considered the development of a commitment to antiracist activism among Black and Latinx adolescents (n = 50) over 4 years of high school. Four waves of interviews with participating adolescents were analysed using a critical consciousness framework to consider participants' descriptions of their developing commitment to antiracist activism and the factors contributing to this development. From these analyses emerged five d…
The development of awareness of racism in adolescents of color over 4 years of high school
This mixed methods, longitudinal study considered the developing awareness of racism of adolescents of color over 4 years of high school. A series of latent growth models were fit to consider participating adolescents' (n = 643) developing awareness of interpersonal and institutional forms of racism over five waves of surveys. Additionally, four waves of interviews with a subset of adolescents (n = 70) were analyzed through a multistep process co…
Teaching questioning fosters adolescent curiosity: Analyzing impact through multiple-group structural equation modeling
Research has found that directly teaching students to question positively affects academic outcomes. Although theoretically questioning is believed to foster numerous “noncognitive” outcomes, relatively few studies have considered the impact of direct instruction in questioning on students’ curiosity and related motivational constructs. The present quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of a student question-brainstorming intervention (…
The Development of Critical Consciousness in Adolescents of Color Attending “Opposing” Schooling Models
Critical consciousness refers to the ability to analyze and take action against oppressive social forces shaping society. This longitudinal, mixed methods study compared the critical consciousness development of adolescents of color (n = 453) attending two sets of high schools featuring schooling models that represent “opposing” approaches to education. The participating adolescents were 13-15 years old at the start of the study; the majority ide…
The Development of Critical Consciousness and its Relation to Academic Achievement in Adolescents of Color
Critical consciousness, the process by which individuals come to understand, analyze, and take action against systems of oppression, is associated with several positive youth outcomes. However, little research has considered how the core components of critical consciousness (critical reflection, political agency, critical action) are associated with academic achievement. The present study explored the extent to which the developing critical consc…
Fostering the Sociopolitical Development of African American and Latinx Adolescents to Analyze and Challenge Racial and Economic Inequality
Sociopolitical development refers to the processes by which an individual acquires the knowledge, skills, and commitment to analyze and challenge oppressive social forces. A growing body of scholarship reports that high levels of sociopolitical development are predictive in adolescents of a number of key outcomes including resilience and civic engagement. The present study explored the role that urban secondary schools can play in fostering adole…
The Role of Curiosity in the Sociopolitical Development of Black and Latinx Adolescents
Sociopolitical development, the process of coming to understand and take action against systems of oppression, is associated with key outcomes for youth. Although rooted in Paulo Freire's work on critical consciousness, sociopolitical development models overlook a motivational attribute-curiosity-that Freire characterized as a catalyst of such development. This longitudinal study investigated the relationship between curiosity and two aspects of …
Black and Latinx adolescents’ developing beliefs about poverty and associations with their awareness of racism
Interpersonal and structural forms of racism contribute to a system of economic stratification in the United States in which children of color are disproportionately likely to be born into poverty and to remain poor as adults. However, only a small body of research has focused on Black and Latinx adolescents' developing beliefs about the causes of poverty or the relationship between such beliefs and their awareness of racism. The present study so…
Developing sociopolitical consciousness of race and social class inequality in adolescents attending progressive and no excuses urban secondary schools
Sociopolitical consciousness refers to an individual’s ability to critically analyze the political, economic, and social forces shaping society and one’s status in it. A growing body of scholarship reports that high levels of sociopolitical consciousness are predictive in marginalized adolescents of a number of key outcomes including resilience and civic engagement. The present study explored the role that urban secondary schools can play in fost…
Investigating Adolescents’ Critical Consciousness Development through a Character Framework
Theoretical and Empirical Bases of Character Development in Adolescence: A View of the Issues
The Effects of Privileging Moral or Performance Character Development in Urban Adolescents
This study compared the effects of emphasizing moral character development or performance character development at three high-performing, high-poverty urban middle schools. Performance character consists of the qualities that allow individuals to regulate their thoughts and actions in ways that support achievement in a particular endeavor. Moral character consists of the qualities relevant to striving for ethical behavior in one’s relationships w…
Cultivating the Academic Integrity of Urban Adolescents with Ethical Philosophy Programming
This mixed-methods study considered the effects of ethical philosophy programming at a high-performing, high-poverty urban high school upon the academic integrity of participating adolescents (n = 279). Analyses of pre–post survey data revealed that participating adolescents reported significantly higher levels of academic integrity than their peers at a matched comparison school. Field notes from observations of ethical philosophy lessons and qu…
The Impact of Philosophy and Theology Service-Learning Experiences upon the Public Service Motivation of Participating College Students
Additional informationNotes on contributorsScott C. SeiderScott C. Seider is an assistant professor at Boston University.Samantha A. RabinowiczSamantha A. Rabinowicz and Susan C. Gillmor are undergraduate research assistants at Boston University.Susan C. GillmorSamantha A. Rabinowicz and Susan C. Gillmor are undergraduate research assistants at Boston University
The Role of Privilege as Identity in Adolescents' Beliefs About Homelessness, Opportunity, and Inequality
This mixed methods study investigated the impact of learning about homelessness on the civic development of privileged adolescents. Pre-post surveys, classroom observations, and qualitative interviews revealed that the participating adolescents developed a more complex understanding of the factors that contribute to homelessness; however, this deeper understanding of homelessness was not accompanied by a reconfiguring of participants' beliefs abo…
Black and Latinx adolescents’ developing beliefs about poverty and associations with their awareness of racism
Interpersonal and structural forms of racism contribute to a system of economic stratification in the United States in which children of color are disproportionately likely to be born into poverty and to remain poor as adults. However, only a small body of research has focused on Black and Latinx adolescents' developing beliefs about the causes of poverty or the relationship between such beliefs and their awareness of racism. The present study so…
The Impact of Community Service Learning Upon the Expected Political Voice of Participating College Students
This study considered the impact of the SERVE Program at Ignatius University upon participating students’ expected political involvement. The SERVE Program is a community service learning program sponsored jointly by Ignatius University’s philosophy and theology departments. Through a mixed methods research design, the authors found that Ignatius University students participating in the SERVE Program demonstrated statistically significant increas…
The Development of Critical Consciousness in Adolescents of Color Attending “Opposing” Schooling Models
Critical consciousness refers to the ability to analyze and take action against oppressive social forces shaping society. This longitudinal, mixed methods study compared the critical consciousness development of adolescents of color (n = 453) attending two sets of high schools featuring schooling models that represent “opposing” approaches to education. The participating adolescents were 13-15 years old at the start of the study; the majority ide…
Fostering the Sociopolitical Development of African American and Latinx Adolescents to Analyze and Challenge Racial and Economic Inequality
Sociopolitical development refers to the processes by which an individual acquires the knowledge, skills, and commitment to analyze and challenge oppressive social forces. A growing body of scholarship reports that high levels of sociopolitical development are predictive in adolescents of a number of key outcomes including resilience and civic engagement. The present study explored the role that urban secondary schools can play in fostering adole…
Investigating Adolescents’ Critical Consciousness Development through a Character Framework
The Role of Curiosity in the Sociopolitical Development of Black and Latinx Adolescents
Sociopolitical development, the process of coming to understand and take action against systems of oppression, is associated with key outcomes for youth. Although rooted in Paulo Freire's work on critical consciousness, sociopolitical development models overlook a motivational attribute-curiosity-that Freire characterized as a catalyst of such development. This longitudinal study investigated the relationship between curiosity and two aspects of …
Catalyzing a Commitment to Community Service in Emerging Adults
In this study, the author conducted in-depth interviews with college students from affluent suburban communities who perform 10 to 20 hours of community service each week. Three fourths of these students attribute their commitment to community service in large part to a single academic experience that influenced their respective worldviews and conceptions of service. Examples of such experiences include Bible studies, secondary and university-lev…
The Role of Privilege as Identity in Adolescents' Beliefs About Homelessness, Opportunity, and Inequality
This mixed methods study investigated the impact of learning about homelessness on the civic development of privileged adolescents. Pre-post surveys, classroom observations, and qualitative interviews revealed that the participating adolescents developed a more complex understanding of the factors that contribute to homelessness; however, this deeper understanding of homelessness was not accompanied by a reconfiguring of participants' beliefs abo…
Bad Things Could Happen”: How Fear Impedes Social Responsibility in Privileged Adolescents
In this study, I compared the shifts in attitude of affluent high school seniors participating in a course on social justice issues to a control group of similar adolescents. In this course, participating adolescents learned about social justice issues such as homelessness, poverty, world hunger, and illegal immigration. An analysis of presurvey and postsurvey data revealed that the adolescents participating in the social justice course experienc…
The Effects of Privileging Moral or Performance Character Development in Urban Adolescents
This study compared the effects of emphasizing moral character development or performance character development at three high-performing, high-poverty urban middle schools. Performance character consists of the qualities that allow individuals to regulate their thoughts and actions in ways that support achievement in a particular endeavor. Moral character consists of the qualities relevant to striving for ethical behavior in one’s relationships w…
Associations between hope and trajectories of critical consciousness among U.S. youth of color
We examined associations between hope as an internal asset that supports positive youth development, and growth trajectories of three critical consciousness components. Using five waves of data collected over the course of high school (N = 618), we modeled growth trajectories of awareness of inequity (critical reflection), a sense of agency about taking sociopolitical action (critical agency), and behaviors targeting systems of oppression (critic…
Overwhelmed and Immobilized: Raising the Consciousness of Privileged Young Adults about World Hunger and Poverty
In this study, I compared the shifts in worldview of affluent young adults participating in a course on social justice issues to a control group of similar young adults. In this course, participating students learned about the size, scope, causes, and impact of world hunger and global poverty. However, an analysis of pre- and postsurvey data revealed that the young adults participating in the social justice course experienced a decline over the c…
Black and Latinx Adolescents’ Developing Commitment to Antiracist Activism Over Four Years of High School
This qualitative study considered the development of a commitment to antiracist activism among Black and Latinx adolescents (n = 50) over 4 years of high school. Four waves of interviews with participating adolescents were analysed using a critical consciousness framework to consider participants' descriptions of their developing commitment to antiracist activism and the factors contributing to this development. From these analyses emerged five d…
The development of awareness of racism in adolescents of color over 4 years of high school
This mixed methods, longitudinal study considered the developing awareness of racism of adolescents of color over 4 years of high school. A series of latent growth models were fit to consider participating adolescents' (n = 643) developing awareness of interpersonal and institutional forms of racism over five waves of surveys. Additionally, four waves of interviews with a subset of adolescents (n = 70) were analyzed through a multistep process co…
Theoretical and Empirical Bases of Character Development in Adolescence: A View of the Issues
Catalyzing a Commitment to Community Service in Emerging Adults
In this study, the author conducted in-depth interviews with college students from affluent suburban communities who perform 10 to 20 hours of community service each week. Three fourths of these students attribute their commitment to community service in large part to a single academic experience that influenced their respective worldviews and conceptions of service. Examples of such experiences include Bible studies, secondary and university-lev…
Bad Things Could Happen”: How Fear Impedes Social Responsibility in Privileged Adolescents
In this study, I compared the shifts in attitude of affluent high school seniors participating in a course on social justice issues to a control group of similar adolescents. In this course, participating adolescents learned about social justice issues such as homelessness, poverty, world hunger, and illegal immigration. An analysis of presurvey and postsurvey data revealed that the adolescents participating in the social justice course experienc…
When False Representations Ring True (and When They Don't)
We examine the circumstances under which young people engage in fabricated self-representations and explore the individual and societal factors that compel and sanction these fabrications. There are circumstances under which self-fabrications may have beneficial effects and are, thus, authorized representations of the self. In contrast, a false, or unauthorized, self-representation is one that results in harm to the self, to others, and/or societ…
Overwhelmed and Immobilized: Raising the Consciousness of Privileged Young Adults about World Hunger and Poverty
In this study, I compared the shifts in worldview of affluent young adults participating in a course on social justice issues to a control group of similar young adults. In this course, participating students learned about the size, scope, causes, and impact of world hunger and global poverty. However, an analysis of pre- and postsurvey data revealed that the young adults participating in the social justice course experienced a decline over the c…
The Impact of Community Service Learning Upon the Expected Political Voice of Participating College Students
This study considered the impact of the SERVE Program at Ignatius University upon participating students’ expected political involvement. The SERVE Program is a community service learning program sponsored jointly by Ignatius University’s philosophy and theology departments. Through a mixed methods research design, the authors found that Ignatius University students participating in the SERVE Program demonstrated statistically significant increas…
The Impact of Philosophy and Theology Service-Learning Experiences upon the Public Service Motivation of Participating College Students
Additional informationNotes on contributorsScott C. SeiderScott C. Seider is an assistant professor at Boston University.Samantha A. RabinowiczSamantha A. Rabinowicz and Susan C. Gillmor are undergraduate research assistants at Boston University.Susan C. GillmorSamantha A. Rabinowicz and Susan C. Gillmor are undergraduate research assistants at Boston University
The Role of Privilege as Identity in Adolescents' Beliefs About Homelessness, Opportunity, and Inequality
This mixed methods study investigated the impact of learning about homelessness on the civic development of privileged adolescents. Pre-post surveys, classroom observations, and qualitative interviews revealed that the participating adolescents developed a more complex understanding of the factors that contribute to homelessness; however, this deeper understanding of homelessness was not accompanied by a reconfiguring of participants' beliefs abo…
The Effects of Privileging Moral or Performance Character Development in Urban Adolescents
This study compared the effects of emphasizing moral character development or performance character development at three high-performing, high-poverty urban middle schools. Performance character consists of the qualities that allow individuals to regulate their thoughts and actions in ways that support achievement in a particular endeavor. Moral character consists of the qualities relevant to striving for ethical behavior in one’s relationships w…
Cultivating the Academic Integrity of Urban Adolescents with Ethical Philosophy Programming
This mixed-methods study considered the effects of ethical philosophy programming at a high-performing, high-poverty urban high school upon the academic integrity of participating adolescents (n = 279). Analyses of pre–post survey data revealed that participating adolescents reported significantly higher levels of academic integrity than their peers at a matched comparison school. Field notes from observations of ethical philosophy lessons and qu…
Investigating Adolescents’ Critical Consciousness Development through a Character Framework
Theoretical and Empirical Bases of Character Development in Adolescence: A View of the Issues
Developing sociopolitical consciousness of race and social class inequality in adolescents attending progressive and no excuses urban secondary schools
Sociopolitical consciousness refers to an individual’s ability to critically analyze the political, economic, and social forces shaping society and one’s status in it. A growing body of scholarship reports that high levels of sociopolitical consciousness are predictive in marginalized adolescents of a number of key outcomes including resilience and civic engagement. The present study explored the role that urban secondary schools can play in fost…
The Role of Curiosity in the Sociopolitical Development of Black and Latinx Adolescents
Sociopolitical development, the process of coming to understand and take action against systems of oppression, is associated with key outcomes for youth. Although rooted in Paulo Freire's work on critical consciousness, sociopolitical development models overlook a motivational attribute-curiosity-that Freire characterized as a catalyst of such development. This longitudinal study investigated the relationship between curiosity and two aspects of …
Black and Latinx adolescents’ developing beliefs about poverty and associations with their awareness of racism
Interpersonal and structural forms of racism contribute to a system of economic stratification in the United States in which children of color are disproportionately likely to be born into poverty and to remain poor as adults. However, only a small body of research has focused on Black and Latinx adolescents' developing beliefs about the causes of poverty or the relationship between such beliefs and their awareness of racism. The present study so…
The Development of Critical Consciousness and its Relation to Academic Achievement in Adolescents of Color
Critical consciousness, the process by which individuals come to understand, analyze, and take action against systems of oppression, is associated with several positive youth outcomes. However, little research has considered how the core components of critical consciousness (critical reflection, political agency, critical action) are associated with academic achievement. The present study explored the extent to which the developing critical consc…
Fostering the Sociopolitical Development of African American and Latinx Adolescents to Analyze and Challenge Racial and Economic Inequality
Sociopolitical development refers to the processes by which an individual acquires the knowledge, skills, and commitment to analyze and challenge oppressive social forces. A growing body of scholarship reports that high levels of sociopolitical development are predictive in adolescents of a number of key outcomes including resilience and civic engagement. The present study explored the role that urban secondary schools can play in fostering adole…
Teaching questioning fosters adolescent curiosity: Analyzing impact through multiple-group structural equation modeling
Research has found that directly teaching students to question positively affects academic outcomes. Although theoretically questioning is believed to foster numerous “noncognitive” outcomes, relatively few studies have considered the impact of direct instruction in questioning on students’ curiosity and related motivational constructs. The present quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of a student question-brainstorming intervention (…
The Development of Critical Consciousness in Adolescents of Color Attending “Opposing” Schooling Models
Critical consciousness refers to the ability to analyze and take action against oppressive social forces shaping society. This longitudinal, mixed methods study compared the critical consciousness development of adolescents of color (n = 453) attending two sets of high schools featuring schooling models that represent “opposing” approaches to education. The participating adolescents were 13-15 years old at the start of the study; the majority ide…
Full Journal
The theme of Issue 34 of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations is Social Justice Action, Teaching, and Research. The first article of this issue, "The Art of Social Justice," features the works of a slam poet, Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, an activist artist, Eduardo Valadez, and an overview of the social science literature capturing the role of art in social justice movements. The two artists featured are both active in their communities and worldwide…
Black and Latinx Adolescents’ Developing Commitment to Antiracist Activism Over Four Years of High School
This qualitative study considered the development of a commitment to antiracist activism among Black and Latinx adolescents (n = 50) over 4 years of high school. Four waves of interviews with participating adolescents were analysed using a critical consciousness framework to consider participants' descriptions of their developing commitment to antiracist activism and the factors contributing to this development. From these analyses emerged five d…
The development of awareness of racism in adolescents of color over 4 years of high school
This mixed methods, longitudinal study considered the developing awareness of racism of adolescents of color over 4 years of high school. A series of latent growth models were fit to consider participating adolescents' (n = 643) developing awareness of interpersonal and institutional forms of racism over five waves of surveys. Additionally, four waves of interviews with a subset of adolescents (n = 70) were analyzed through a multistep process co…
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…
Ethnic-Racial Socialization in Multiracial Families: Emerging Findings and Future Directions
How Parents in Multiethnic-Racial Families Share Cultural Assets with Their Children
Black and latinx adolescents’ developing understandings about poverty, inequality, and opportunity
This mixed-methods, longitudinal study utilized survey data from a sample of (primarily) Black and Latinx adolescents’ (n = 643) and qualitative interviews with a subset of adolescents (n = 39) to consider changes in adolescents’ beliefs about poverty and economic inequality throughout high school as well as the sources of their beliefs. Adolescents demonstrated significant, linear growth in their beliefs that poverty was caused by structural fac…
Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (19 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (11 works) · Consciousness (9 works)