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The value of communal and intergenerational settings for studying social and emotional learning

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ID23212935
AuthorsMelissa Mesinas (0000-0001-9053-9808, Scripps College, corresponding author), Saskias Casanova (0000-0001-5256-2695, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Year2023
Volume17
Issue3-4
Pages122-128
Publication date2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChild Development Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-8592 • E-ISSN: 1750-8606
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/cdep.12485
OpenAlexW4386164910
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited25

Indigenous Latinx youth living in the United States are culturally diverse individuals whose experiences are often unrecognized. These diasporic youth identify, learn, and develop cultural strengths amid their upbringing outside their Native communities by engaging in integrated communal endeavors informed by Indigenous values. In this article, we present research on how interconnected aspects of diasporic Indigenous practices contribute to the social and emotional development of youth in middle childhood and adolescence. We focus on Indigenous familial and communal experiences that contribute to developmental processes. We provide nuanced perspectives to studying social and emotional learning (SEL) outside the traditional school setting by expanding to communal contexts. We examine comunalidad (communality) and intergenerational practices to consider how transformative SEL can be more inclusive of Indigenous ways of knowing and living. Our focus is the cultural strengths these communities bring to the SEL competencies of relationships and social awareness, which are applicable to the development of all children.

Developmental psychology · Indigenous · Social emotional learning · Sociology · Transformative learning · Value (mathematics) · Community Health and Development · Early Childhood Education and Development · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Citations per year2,5
Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
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