Capacity, community, and consolidation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Reentry is a challenging and often-forgotten transition from a period of incarceration back into communities. Mentoring programs may offer a promising approach to support young people in reentry. However, research on mentoring typically focuses on outcomes and not processes, limiting our understanding of mentoring in context, specifically with formerly incarcerated youth. The aim of my research is to understand in detail the social processes and practices -- both the formal aspects of the programs and the relational dimensions -- that support positive mentoring outcomes. This dissertation examines the case of Community and Youth Outreach (CYO), a community-based organization in Oakland, California, where staff engage in transformative mentoring, a specific approach to mentoring designed to support formerly incarcerated young adults in the process of reentry. To unpack and understand this process, I observed 21 weekly group mentoring classes, conducted 20 one-on-one semi-structured interviews with adult staff and young adult participants, and reviewed 10 organizational documents for triangulation. I used qualitative analyses with open coding to develop inductive codes through grounded theory alongside deductive coding with a priori codes from the literature. My observations and interviews revealed a system of strategies and pedagogical practices that together offered young people emotional, practical, and resiliency-building support. Analytically, these clustered into three broad constructs: Capacity, community, and consolidation. Mentoring should be conceptualized as a complex process requiring deep expertise from those with lived experience, distributed mentoring among a community of support, and a bidirectional relationship between these two components. This dissertation enhances our understanding of mentoring theory, provides insights for practical future applications of the process, and has implications for policies that support mentoring programs
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Remington, Kathleen Stein |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Barron, Brigid |
| Thesis advisor | Barron, Brigid |
| Thesis advisor | Damon, William, 1944- |
| Thesis advisor | Garcia, Antero |
| Thesis advisor | Ginwright, Shawn A |
| Degree committee member | Damon, William, 1944- |
| Degree committee member | Garcia, Antero |
| Degree committee member | Ginwright, Shawn A |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kathleen Remington |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Kathleen Stein Remington
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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