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The purpose of this study was to delve into the emerging awareness of the social factors that contribute to the teaching and learning of mathematics by documenting the experiences of Math Literacy Workers in the Young People’s Project, as it formed its Los Angeles Chapter. Twelve high school students, three college students and one program coordinator participated in this research study. This research study focused on a series of math literacy workshops conducted as part of an after-school program at Roosevelt Elementary School. Built upon the legacy of the Mississippi Freedom Riders, the Young People’s Project has developed an engaging program that allows participants to take direct action in transforming their communities. The design of a pedagogy rooted in the tenants of civil rights, youth leadership, civic engagement, criticalmathliteracy, situated learning theory, cultural relevance, peer-to-peer education, social empowerment, grassroots leadership, and community organizing, enabled participants to develop their identity as agents of social change. This research examined the capacity of critical literacy and the methodologies used to promote math literacy and youth leadership as aspects of the Math Literacy Workers training program. The Math Literacy Workers training program positively impacted youth participants’ math literacy, problem solving, academic achievement, communication, organizing skills, leadership capacity, self-confidence, civic engagement, critical literacy, and self-identity. Participants described how the program allowed them to achieve praxis, through continuously reflecting on their identities and the social significance of their experiences as they took direct action as facilitators of the math literacy workshops at Roosevelt Elementary School.

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The newly revised 2017-2018 British Columbian high school curriculum, as a prevention education response to a growing concern around children and youths’ mental health, indicates that students will learn the signs and symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression and be able to explain strategies to promote mental well-being (Province of British Columbia, 2016). Youth voices may help in shaping this curriculum objective. This study explores the meaning that five high school students, who were trained to facilitate an anxiety-prevention program, make of the problem of anxiety and prevention through their narratives, applying a narrative methodology and analysis. These youth narratives do not provide a singular explanation, truth or understanding of anxiety; like all narratives, they hold multiple truths. The youth narratives are drawn from the participants’ local experiential knowledge as well as prevailing discourses that shape their understanding. The types of narratives in this inquiry include: i) the quest for problem-free childhoods; ii) the genesis of knowledge; and iii) overcoming giant stigma by connecting. There are implications and considerations pulled from the narratives, including how a prevailing psychologized discourse may obscure contextual factors in making sense of anxiety and prevention. This inquiry may help educators and other professionals to imagine what else could be possible in conceptualizing the problem of anxiety and implementing prevention programs. It is hoped that this study will add to the current dialogue around prevention and support strategies in British Columbian schools and beyond. / Graduate / 0525 / 0680 / 0519 / 0533 / 0347 / arfelix3@gmail.com

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This study describes and analyses lay training programmes at Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation (MEF) with emphasis on: Women's Training; Conference, Research and Development; and Youth Leadership. Mindolo is seen as an expression of the church's presence in society and a symbol of hope, peace and reconciliation. Lay training programmes at Mindolo aim at equipping Christians to act as 'leaven', salt and 'light' in society. The values and morals of the African people could be the basis of such teaching. The study discusses how the term 'laity' has negative implications such as regarding the laity as non-competent or specialist because they are not priests or theologians. It illustrates that although the majority of Christians are women, leadership in the church is dominated by men. The study illustrates how critical it is for Mindolo to evaluate its original vision in light of current challenges and promises. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / MA (Religious Studies)

This study describes and analyses lay training programmes at Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation (MEF) with emphasis on: Women's Training; Conference, Research and Development; and Youth Leadership. Mindolo is seen as an expression of the church's presence in society and a symbol of hope, peace and reconciliation. Lay training programmes at Mindolo aim at equipping Christians to act as 'leaven', salt and 'light' in society. The values and morals of the African people could be the basis of such teaching. The study discusses how the term 'laity' has negative implications such as regarding the laity as non-competent or specialist because they are not priests or theologians. It illustrates that although the majority of Christians are women, leadership in the church is dominated by men. The study illustrates how critical it is for Mindolo to evaluate its original vision in light of current challenges and promises. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / MA (Religious Studies)

UNESCO established Sustainability Education as a top priority when it declared 2005 - 2014 to be the global decade for sustainability. Sustainability education can be implemented in outdoor programs such as nature summer camps in order to build environmental stewardship and ecological literacy in counselors and campers. This study sought to determine the extent to which an ecology and leadership training given to assistant counselors at Tryon Creek State Natural Area day camp achieved the goals of sustainability education--for the assistant counselors to learn about ecology, develop stewardship attitudes and behaviors toward the environment, and become positive role models for the campers in their care. Knowledge and environmental stewardship attitudes and behaviors of the counselors were assessed using surveys, interviews, and training journals. A statistically significant difference was found between pre and posttest scores on a survey measuring knowledge of Pacific Northwest ecology, but no significant difference was found between the pre and posttest scores on an environmental attitudes survey, possibly due to a ceiling effect. Interviews revealed that participants learned about invasive species, Oregon flora and fauna, and stream ecology over the summer. Despite the results on the attitudes survey, interviewees reported greater environmental awareness at the end of the summer as well as a greater sense of place in nature and a desire to continue working with children in an outdoor setting.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:00:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6092.pdf: 3928591 bytes, checksum: c4b67af56ef48c208861bc63bc08e72d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-07-05 / The main subject of this dissertation is how a form of suffering, the psychological distress, is constructed and experienced by young college students. The objects of analysis are the practices and discourses that produce psychological distress, as well as ways to overcome this experience. After identifying the importance and recurrence of psychological distress in the development of life experience among these students, I sought to explore the subject through an ethnographic research. Thus, this dissertation begins going deep into some issues raised by students' speech about how it is to suffer psychologically and what relationship this experience has with university life . In this first step I resorted to open interviews with students who had undergone psychotherapeutic processes. At a second moment, the research enters the boundaries of a research institution and university extension affiliated with the SUS ( Unified Health System ), which develops an Extension Project titled Group Therapy University Youth (GTJU). The project created by the School Health Unit (USE) Mental Health Program (PSM) intended to develop therapeutic tactics to help these young people cope with psychological distress, as professionals observed an excessively high demand for this cohort of young people. From this moment on, psychological distress among young college students becomes analyzed through the prism of Public Health. Therefore, the ethnography delves beyond observation and collaboration with the therapeutic groups and the Mental Health Program. Some native categories observed during group therapy and along the meetings of the PSM led me to extend the analysis to the institutional and technical-scientific discourses that guided certain therapeutic practices. Discourses on youth with special attention to youth protagonism and health with its unfoldings about mental health and the concept of vulnerability are articulated to the configuration of a specific type of subject: the citizen. / The main subject of this dissertation is how a form of suffering, the psychological distress, is constructed and experienced by young college students. The objects of analysis are the practices and discourses that produce psychological distress, as well as ways to overcome this experience. After identifying the importance and recurrence of psychological distress in the development of life experience among these students, I sought to explore the subject through an ethnographic research. Thus, this dissertation begins going deep into some issues raised by students' speech about how it is to suffer psychologically and what relationship this experience has with university life . In this first step I resorted to open interviews with students who had undergone psychotherapeutic processes. At a second moment, the research enters the boundaries of a research institution and university extension affiliated with the SUS ( Unified Health System ), which develops an Extension Project titled Group Therapy University Youth (GTJU). The project created by the School Health Unit (USE) Mental Health Program (PSM) intended to develop therapeutic tactics to help these young people cope with psychological distress, as professionals observed an excessively high demand for this cohort of young people. From this moment on, psychological distress among young college students becomes analyzed through the prism of Public Health. Therefore, the ethnography delves beyond observation and collaboration with the therapeutic groups and the Mental Health Program. Some native categories observed during group therapy and along the meetings of the PSM led me to extend the analysis to the institutional and technical-scientific discourses that guided certain therapeutic practices. Discourses on youth with special attention to youth protagonism and health with its unfoldings about mental health and the concept of vulnerability are articulated to the configuration of a specific type of subject: the citizen. / O tema central desta dissertação é como uma dada modalidade de sofrimento, o sofrimento psicológico, é construída e vivida por jovens estudantes universitários. Seus objetos de análise serão as práticas e discursos que produzem o sofrimento psicológico, bem como as formas de superação desta experiência. Após identificar a importância e a recorrência do sofrimento psicológico na construção de uma experiência de vida entre estes estudantes, busquei explorar o tema através de uma pesquisa etnográfica. Assim, esta dissertação se inicia aprofundando algumas questões levantadas pelo discurso dos estudantes a respeito de como é sofrer psicologicamente e qual a relação que esta experiência tem com a vida universitária . Nesta primeira etapa recorri a entrevistas abertas realizadas com estudantes que haviam passado por processos psicoterapêuticos. Num segundo momento, a pesquisa adentra nas fronteiras de uma instituição de pesquisa e extensão universitária filiada ao SUS, na qual se desenvolve um Projeto de Extensão intitulado Grupo Terapêutico Juventude Universitária (GTJU). O Projeto criado pelo Programa de Saúde Mental (PSM) da Unidade Saúde Escola (USE) pretendia desenvolver táticas terapêuticas para auxiliar estes jovens a lidar com o sofrimento psicológico, já que se observara dentre os profissionais uma demanda excessivamente alta para tal coorte de jovens. Deste momento em diante, o sofrimento psicológico entre os jovens universitários passa a ser analisado pelo prisma da Saúde Pública. Portanto, a etnografia se aprofunda para além da observação e da colaboração com os grupos terapêuticos e com o Programa de Saúde Mental. Algumas categorias nativas observadas durante a terapia de grupo e no decorrer das reuniões do PSM me levaram a estender a análise para os discursos institucionais e técnico-científicos que orientavam determinadas práticas terapêuticas. Discursos sobre as juventudes com especial atenção ao protagonismo juvenil e saúde com seus desdobramentos sobre a saúde mental e sobre o conceito de vulnerabilidade são articulados para a configuração de uma modalidade específica de sujeito: o cidadão. / O tema central desta dissertação é como uma dada modalidade de sofrimento, o sofrimento psicológico, é construída e vivida por jovens estudantes universitários. Seus objetos de análise serão as práticas e discursos que produzem o sofrimento psicológico, bem como as formas de superação desta experiência. Após identificar a importância e a recorrência do sofrimento psicológico na construção de uma experiência de vida entre estes estudantes, busquei explorar o tema através de uma pesquisa etnográfica. Assim, esta dissertação se inicia aprofundando algumas questões levantadas pelo discurso dos estudantes a respeito de como é sofrer psicologicamente e qual a relação que esta experiência tem com a vida universitária . Nesta primeira etapa recorri a entrevistas abertas realizadas com estudantes que haviam passado por processos psicoterapêuticos. Num segundo momento, a pesquisa adentra nas fronteiras de uma instituição de pesquisa e extensão universitária filiada ao SUS, na qual se desenvolve um Projeto de Extensão intitulado Grupo Terapêutico Juventude Universitária (GTJU). O Projeto criado pelo Programa de Saúde Mental (PSM) da Unidade Saúde Escola (USE) pretendia desenvolver táticas terapêuticas para auxiliar estes jovens a lidar com o sofrimento psicológico, já que se observara dentre os profissionais uma demanda excessivamente alta para tal coorte de jovens. Deste momento em diante, o sofrimento psicológico entre os jovens universitários passa a ser analisado pelo prisma da Saúde Pública. Portanto, a etnografia se aprofunda para além da observação e da colaboração com os grupos terapêuticos e com o Programa de Saúde Mental. Algumas categorias nativas observadas durante a terapia de grupo e no decorrer das reuniões do PSM me levaram a estender a análise para os discursos institucionais e técnico-científicos que orientavam determinadas práticas terapêuticas. Discursos sobre as juventudes com especial atenção ao protagonismo juvenil e saúde com seus desdobramentos sobre a saúde mental e sobre o conceito de vulnerabilidade são articulados para a configuração de uma modalidade específica de sujeito: o cidadão.