BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16017-13e09a285ead1b17c9c6f3c9cee42659@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260501T150812Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251002T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251002T161500 SUMMARY:2025–26 Lois Bloom Lecture: Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor DESCRIPTION:\nAdriana J. Umaña-Taylor\, Ph.D.\n\nSara Lawrence-Lightfoot Professor of Education\n\nHarvard Graduate School of Education\n\n"Inte rvening in Adolescents' Ethnic-Racial Identity Development\, Promoting P ositive Youth Development\, and Contributing to a More Global Developmen tal Science"\n\nAbstract: In societies where the social constructs of ra ce and ethnicity are used to inform and justify a hierarchical structure of power and access to resources\, ethnic-racial identity formation bec omes an important developmental competency to understand and foster in y oung people. Furthermore\, the developmental period of adolescence provi des a unique context within which to understand how age-graded and socio -culturally informed contingencies interact to shape young people’s deve lopment. This presentation will explore how school-based interventions s uch as the Identity Project can promote adolescents’ ethnic-racial ident ity development and\, in turn\, their psychosocial adjustment. Findings will be shared from a series of investigations that (a) tested the effic acy of the Identity Project curriculum\, (b) examined changes in adolesc ents’ ethnic-racial identity when their teachers implemented the Identit y Project\, (c) tested the feasibility of training educators to deliver the curriculum with fidelity\, and (d) explored changes in high school t eachers’ culturally sustaining pedagogical practices after training for and implementing the Identity Project. Finally\, emerging research on th e cross-cultural adaptation of the Identity Project will be presented\, with attention to how this work may contribute to building a more global developmental science.\n\nLight reception to follow.\n\nFor more detail s: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/umana-taylor/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Ph.D.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Professor of Educa tion
Harvard Graduate School of Education

"Intervening in Adolescents' Ethnic-Raci al Identity Development, Promoting Positive Youth Development, and Contr ibuting to a More Global Developmental Science"

Abstr act: In societies where the social constructs of race and ethnicity are used to inform and justify a hierarchical structure of power and access to resources, ethnic-racial identity formation becomes an important deve lopmental competency to understand and foster in young people. Furthermo re, the developmental period of adolescence provides a unique context wi thin which to understand how age-graded and socio-culturally informed co ntingencies interact to shape young people’s development. This presentat ion will explore how school-based interventions such as the Identity Pro ject can promote adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity development and, in turn, their psychosocial adjustment. Findings will be shared from a ser ies of investigations that (a) tested the efficacy of the Identity Proje ct curriculum, (b) examined changes in adolescents’ ethnic-racial identi ty when their teachers implemented the Identity Project, (c) tested the feasibility of training educators to deliver the curriculum with fidelit y, and (d) explored changes in high school teachers’ culturally sustaini ng pedagogical practices after training for and implementing the Identit y Project. Finally, emerging research on the cross-cultural adaptation o f the Identity Project will be presented, with attention to how this wor k may contribute to building a more global developmental science.

Light reception to follow.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/umana -taylor/

URL:https://csc.la.psu.edu/speaker-series/lois-bloom-lecture/ LOCATION:Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom A/B END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR