“We need their help”: Encouraging and discouraging adolescent civic engagement through Photovoice

Suzanne Pritzker, Alicia LaChapelle and Jeremy Tatum

Children and Youth Services Review, 2012, vol. 34, issue 11, 2247-2254

Abstract: Racial, ethnic, and class-based gaps in civic engagement may leave many Latino/a adolescents without a key avenue for positive development. While Photovoice, a community-based participatory research method based in photography, is typically used in research, it also offers potential as an intervention to empower and strengthen Latino/a adolescents' civic engagement. A mixed‐method study design examined the impacts of Photovoice on 15 high school students. While pre- and post-test survey data suggest a limited impact on adolescents' civic attitudes and behaviors, rich focus group data indicate increased self-efficacy, empowerment, community attachment, community awareness, and intended civic engagement. Yet, results also indicate substantial student frustration at the perceived hypocrisy of adults in their community toward civic involvement.

Keywords: Photovoice; Civic engagement; Latino youth; Photography; Youth empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.07.015

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