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The Role Of Service-Learning Experiences In Promoting Flourishing Among College-Student Youth Mentors, Alyssa Maples, Anne Williams-Wengerd, Jacqueline Braughton, Kimberly Henry, Shelley Haddock, Lindsey Weiler
The Role Of Service-Learning Experiences In Promoting Flourishing Among College-Student Youth Mentors, Alyssa Maples, Anne Williams-Wengerd, Jacqueline Braughton, Kimberly Henry, Shelley Haddock, Lindsey Weiler
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Service-learning experiences may uniquely promote flourishing (i.e. having meaning in life, social connections, and a positive outlook) for college students. To examine whether specific relational experiences within service-learning were associated with flourishing, we used data from a program where university students (N= 274; 21.2% first-generation) served as mentors to youth (ages 10–18) with prior exposure to adversity. We examined three experiences: opportunities to belong, supportive relationships, and the quality of the mentoring relationship. After controlling for baseline flourishing and age, results showed positive relationships between mentoring relationship quality and supportive relationships and post-intervention flourishing. Opportunities to belong was not associated …
The Emergence Of Racialized Labor And Racial Battle Fatigue In The African American Student Network (Afam), Tabitha Grier-Reed, Anne Williams-Wengerd, Alyssa Maples, Demitri Mcgee
The Emergence Of Racialized Labor And Racial Battle Fatigue In The African American Student Network (Afam), Tabitha Grier-Reed, Anne Williams-Wengerd, Alyssa Maples, Demitri Mcgee
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Although little may be new with respect to the lived experience of racialized labor for People of Color navigating whiteness and white spaces, this study is the first to identify racialized labor in everyday life. Adapting consensual qualitative research methods to a phenomenological frame, we examined 277 notes summarizing weekly discussions in the African American Student Network (AFAM) over a 13-year time period. Co-facilitated by Black faculty and graduate students, AFAM was a space for Black undergraduates to make meaning of their experiences and find community on campus. We defined racialized labor as the ongoing process of navigating hostile environments …