Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This session presents a description of the pedagogy of resilience as well as assessment tools for collecting evidence that teachers and pre-service candidates are affective at implementing this new pedagogy.

Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Social mobility for persons reared in urban neighborhoods of concentrated poverty often occurs without the social stimulation usually encompassed in conventional understandings of significant others? influence. In this longitudinal case study of 613 children living in Cleveland?s high poverty neighborhoods, we examine the impact on educational achievement growth and behavior problem decline of the children?s capacity for resiliency and the opportunity for temporary residence with their mothers in a uniquely constructed total social environment, a therapeutic community for women addicted to crack cocaine. After reviewing the extensive literature on children?s resiliency, we develop a new instrument to measure the capacity for resiliency, a multidimensional construct comprising observable cognitive, moral, and relational strengths. We use hierarchical growth modeling to estimate the effects for children of this newly measured capacity for resiliency and the treatment setting while controlling for observable covariates of the mother and child and unobserved family heterogeneity and auto-correlated measurement error across the four annual time points of the test observations. Increases in math and reading achievement and a decline in behavior problems were significantly related to the child?s capacity for resiliency. Increases in math, reading, and vocabulary achievement were significantly related to time spent living with mother in the therapeutic community. After demonstrating the likely generalizability of our findings beyond the treatment sample of children and mothers, we examine reasons for the therapeutic community?s impact on these children.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper discusses risk and resilience among a group of sixty homeless youth by examining in-depth interview narratives about their educational experiences. The authors profile those who have dropped out and those who have graduated high school, and illustrate the factors that predict these outcomes. The paper further outlines some of the obstacles that can derail youth in terms of education, and conversely the supports that can help homeless youth succeed. The authors conclude by offering a number of policy suggestions that can help homeless youth re-attach to education.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Political scientists are justifiably concerned about whether citizens are informed about politics. A less appreciated concern, however, is whether misinformed individual who learn the truth appropriately adjust their beliefs. I present evidence that discredited misinformation affects opinions. Participants’ opinions about a politician are negatively influenced by exposure to false political information that is understood to be bogus. This effect is partially inhibited by prompting memory based information processing, but prompting on-line processing also had the same result, which was unexpected. My findings suggest that belief perseverance is probably endemic to politics because this phenomenon is largely derived from motivated partisan reasoning and occurs consistently without outside interventions.