Rachel's Pizza of SJYD spaces

BLOG POST #3:   Write up this article in one of two ways:  1) Create a reverse outline of this article. How does the author set up their article chunk by chunk? Or 2) Use the Research Pizza menu to explain how this author approaches their content.

2) Use the Research Pizza menu to explain how this author approaches their content.

I chose to use the research pizza to explain how the author approaches their content because this method is easiest to understand and do! Rachel Clemons focused on methodology, results, discussion, implications, and conclusions to understand social justice youth development spaces. The crust or type of research done for this research article was Qualitative: sampling phases were community selection, site selection, and participant selection. I question if quantitative sampling was done here to make the crust a mixed methods data collected source. Throughout the paper, there is a discussion of percentages and data as an example pulled from Rhode Island Education Data Reporting. The qualitative data was collected by narrowing the city with a varied demographic to youth organizations that engaged in social justice activism to meet with youth workers through open-ended interviews, questionnaires, observation of youth workers in engagements, and research of organization websites. 

Ideology - Sauce

The ideology structure of the research Rachel completes is through a critical theory.  She has conversations with the participants, allowing the lead to be taken from them instead of her guiding categories. The studies were more personal. Those in power ( youth workers) make the truth. Their active work is the research itself. 

Sample tools - Toppings

Rachel used surveys and questionnaires, observations (individual interviews) of youth workers, and artifact analysis as websites to prove her research. 

Through the means of the pizza, Rachel Clemons outlined her research to gain perspective on the critical consciousness and social action praxis in SJYD spaces.