Embedding Life Design in Future Readiness Efforts to Promote Collective Impact and Economically Sustainable Communities: Conceptual Frameworks and Case Example

Sustainability

Kimberly A. S. Howard¹  Hayoung Kim¹  Yanling Dai¹  Chong Myung Park¹  V. Scott H. Solberg¹  Paul Trunfio²  Cecilia Nardi³  Alexandra Oliver-Davila⁴  Jazmin Rubi Flete Gomez⁴  Isahiah Erilus⁴  Angelica Rodriguez⁴ 

[1]BU Center for Future Readiness, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA

[2]BU Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA

[3]BU Government & Community Affairs, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA

[4]Sociedad Latina, Boston, MA 02120, USA

关键词: at-risk youth;    program design;    career readiness;    social emotional learning skills;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su132313189

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This is the first of two sequential papers describing the design and first-year implementation of a collaborative participatory action research effort between Sociedad Latina, a youth serving organization in Boston, Massachusetts, and Boston University. The collaboration aimed to develop and deliver a combined STEM and career development set of lessons for middle school Latinx youth. In the first paper, life design and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals are described in relation to the rationale and the design of the career development intervention strategy that aims to help middle school youth discover the ways that learning advanced-STEM skills expand future decent work opportunities both within STEM and outside STEM, ultimately leading to an outcome of well-being and sustainable communities. In addition to providing evidence of career development intervention strategies, a qualitative analysis of the collaboration is described. The second paper will discuss two additional frameworks that guided the design and implementation of our work. As an example of translational research, the paper will provide larger national and regional contexts by describing system level career development interventions underway using Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological and person–process–context–time frameworks.

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