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Institutional Agents in the Lives of Chagrin Falls Park Youth

Kaufman, Alison Taylor
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0106-0884
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1463428541

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Education, Cleveland State University, College of Education and Human Services.
This qualitative case study researched how adults from a community center and school acted as institutional agents in assisting youth navigating between community and school settings. The research was conducted in the context of Chagrin Falls Park, a historically marginalized community in the Cleveland metropolitan region. The research included semi-structured interviews with eleven participants across three participant categories, including institutional agents from Kenston Local Schools and Chagrin Falls Park Community Center and young adult Kenston graduates. The research explored: (1) the perceptions and roles of institutional agents in how Black youth construct identities, relationships, and navigate between institutional and community spaces within the sociological and historical context of Chagrin Falls Park; (2) how the racial-identity of adults influences their relationship with youth; and (3) whether institutional agents act as empowerment agents, viewing their role as providing access to social capital for Chagrin Falls Park youth and/or working against the tendency of schools to reproduce inequality (Stanton-Salazar, 2010). The research found that adults from both Kenston Local Schools and Chagrin Falls Park Community Center acted as institutional agents in supporting Chagrin Falls Park students, but rarely questioned institutional policies that reproduced inequality. Findings support the importance of adults acting on behalf of historically marginalized youth, and underscore the potential when agents from multiple institutions work together to support youth.
Anne Galletta, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Catherine Hansman, Ed.D. (Committee Member)
Brian Harper, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Adam Voight, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Karen Sotiropoulos, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
238 p.
Education; Educational Sociology
Institutional Agent; Racial Identity; Place Identity; Local History; Historically Marginalized Youth; Empowerment Institutional Agent; Social Capital; Community Center

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  • Kaufman, A. T. (2016). Institutional Agents in the Lives of Chagrin Falls Park Youth [Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1463428541

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kaufman, Alison. Institutional Agents in the Lives of Chagrin Falls Park Youth. 2016. Cleveland State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1463428541.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kaufman, Alison. "Institutional Agents in the Lives of Chagrin Falls Park Youth." Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1463428541

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This open access ETD is published by Cleveland State University and OhioLINK.