College and Career Ready and Critically Conscious: Asset-Building With Latinx Immigrant Youth

A growing body of evidence supports critical consciousness as a developmental asset for young people, including its benefits for educational and vocational outcomes. National dynamics and policies in the U.S., such as restricting immigration and asylum, have raised the salience of critical conscious...

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Published in:Journal of career assessment 2021-08, Vol.29 (3), p.525-542
Main Authors: McWhirter, Ellen Hawley, Cendejas, Christina, Fleming, Maureen, Martínez, Samantha, Mather, Nathan, Garcia, Yahaira, Romero, Lindsey, Ortega, Robert I., Rojas-Araúz, Bryan Ovidio
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Language:English
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Summary:A growing body of evidence supports critical consciousness as a developmental asset for young people, including its benefits for educational and vocational outcomes. National dynamics and policies in the U.S., such as restricting immigration and asylum, have raised the salience of critical consciousness as a protective factor for the career development of Latinx immigrant youth. In this manuscript, we first review the nature and benefits of critical consciousness for Latinx immigrant youth. We then highlight how college and career readiness (CCR) and the components of critical consciousness (CC) can be simultaneously fostered among Latinx immigrant high school students, drawing upon our own work in the context of an afterschool program. We introduce a framework to illustrate this integration, and describe a series of intervention activities and processes designed to simultaneously build CC and CCR. Finally, we provide recommendations and describe caveats and challenges to developing classroom-based career education curricula that integrate CCR and CC.
ISSN:1069-0727
1552-4590
DOI:10.1177/1069072720987986