Innovating resilience promotion: Integrating cultural practices, social ecologies and development-sensitive conceptual strategies for advancing child well-being

Publication date: Available online 22 June 2019Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Margaret Beale Spencer, Bronwyn Nichols Lodato, Charles Spencer, Lauren Rich, Christopher Graziul, Traci English-ClarkeAbstractThis chapter's goal is to interrogate the intersectional significance of race and socioeconomic status for children of varied statuses of human vulnerability. It provides a context-connected, culture acknowledging, systems model and identity formation perspective. This strategy is ideal for delineating behavioral consistencies (and interpreting inconsistencies). When operationalized with programming opportunities, it accommodates the nation's diversity and aids the interpretation of findings. This chapter is divided into several sections: First, it interrogates critical insights afforded by a “resiliency-vulnerability” approach; second, it draws attention to the roles of culture, culturally competent practices, and justice-informed contexts for children's perception-based “meaning making” as each—increasingly with age—navigates multiple social ecologies. Third, it shifts to and emphasizes the intersectionally relevant factors of race (e.g., identifiability and skin color stereotyping) and socioeconomic status (i.e., both low resourced and privileging situations); and following a synthesis of the previous sections—as Section 4—it then frames the cumulative and integrated conceptual strategy (phenomenological variant of ecological ...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - Category: Child Development Source Type: research