Lee C C
Adolescence. 1985 Spring;20(77):129-42.
The purpose of this study was to investigate important psychosocial variables associated with the educational development of black adolescents in a southern rural environment. The study explored factors related to academic and social success among rural black adolescents. The focus of the investigation was on identifying psychological and social variables which may successfully influence the transaction between black youth and the rural educational system. Such success variables are important for research because of the traditional emphasis in the social sciences on concepts of deficit in the person-environment interactions of black youth. This article presents a profile of successful black adolescents in a rural school system in the Southeast. The profile was developed from personal interviews with 68 black students identified by teachers as successful, often despite social or economic hardship. The implications for future research and rural educational policy and program from the profile are discussed.
本研究的目的是调查与南部农村环境中黑人青少年教育发展相关的重要社会心理变量。该研究探讨了农村黑人青少年学业和社交成功的相关因素。调查重点在于确定可能成功影响黑人青年与农村教育系统互动的心理和社会变量。由于社会科学传统上强调黑人青年在人与环境互动中的缺陷概念，此类成功变量对研究很重要。本文展示了东南部农村学校系统中成功黑人青少年的概况。该概况是通过对68名被教师认定为成功的黑人学生进行个人访谈得出的，这些学生往往尽管面临社会或经济困难。文中还讨论了该概况对未来研究以及农村教育政策和项目的启示。
