Fictive kinship as it mediates learning, resiliency, perseverance, and social learning of inner-city high school students of color in a college physics class |
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Authors: | Konstantinos Alexakos Jayson K Jones Victor H Rodriguez |
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Institution: | (1) School of Education, Brooklyn College, CUNY, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889, USA |
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Abstract: | In this hermeneutic study we explore how fictive kinship (kin-like close personal friendship) amongst high school students
of color mediated their resiliency, perseverance, and success in a college physics class. These freely chosen, processual
friendships were based on emotional and material support, motivation, and caring for each other, as well as trust, common
interests, and goals. Such close bonds contributed in creating a safe and supportive emotional space and allowed for friendly,
cooperative competition within the physics classroom. Friends became the role models, source of support, and motivation for
the fictive kinship group as well as for each other, as the group became the role model, source of support, and motivation
for the individuals in it. Because of their friendships with one another, physics talk was extended and made part of their
personal interactions outside the classroom. These social relationships and safe spaces helped the students cope and persevere
despite their initial conflicting expectations of their success in physics. Our research thus expands on the concept of social
learning by exploring student friendships and how they frame and mediate such a process. |
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