Towards a decolonial developmental science: Adolescent development in the Majority World taking center stage

IF 4.6 2区心理学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Journal of Research on Adolescence Pub Date : 2024-05-21 DOI:10.1111/jora.12956

Amina Abubakar, Angelo Brandelli Costa, Lixian Cui, Silvia H. Koller, Chidozie Edwin Nwafor, Vaishali V. Raval

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While aspiring to be a diverse and global science, developmental science continues to be dominated by EuroAmerican epistemologies, researchers, and communities in its published scholarship. Adolescents in communities across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America comprise 85% of the world's adolescent population, and yet their experiences and perspectives are marginalized in our science. Adolescents in the Majority World live in highly diverse social, cultural, political, economic, educational and healthcare contexts that contribute to their development, and we have much to learn from their experiences. This article situates the marginalization of the global majority within coloniality embedded in developmental science. The article describes the impetus for this special issue Towards a decolonial developmental science and the process of putting it together, along with providing an overview of the 18 articles in this collection that push us towards decoloniality. The special issue serves as a call to transform developmental science to be decolonial by empowering adolescent development in Majority World communities to take center stage. Adolescent development research from Majority World communities has the potential to challenge the knowledge base generated from Minority World samples, contributing to a science that is comprehensive, inclusive, and can inform prevention and intervention efforts to support the well-being of adolescents globally.

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迈向非殖民发展科学：多数世界的青少年发展占据中心位置。

虽然发展科学渴望成为一门多元化和全球性的科学，但在其已出版的学术成果中，欧美认识论、研究人员和社区仍占主导地位。非洲、亚洲、中东和拉丁美洲社区的青少年占世界青少年人口的 85%，但他们的经历和观点在我们的科学中却被边缘化了。多数世界的青少年生活在高度多样化的社会、文化、政治、经济、教育和医疗保健环境中，这些环境对他们的发展起到了促进作用，我们可以从他们的经历中学到很多东西。这篇文章将全球大多数人的边缘化归因于发展科学中的殖民主义。文章介绍了这本特刊的推动力《走向非殖民地发展科学》以及编纂过程，并概述了这本特刊中推动我们走向非殖民地的 18 篇文章。本特刊呼吁通过让多数世界社区的青少年发展成为中心舞台，将发展科学转变为非殖民地科学。来自多数世界社区的青少年发展研究有可能对来自少数世界样本的知识库提出挑战，从而促进科学的全面性和包容性，并为预防和干预工作提供信息，以支持全球青少年的福祉。

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Journal of Research on Adolescence Multiple-

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6.90

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： Multidisciplinary and international in scope, the Journal of Research on Adolescence (JRA) significantly advances knowledge in the field of adolescent research. Employing a diverse array of methodologies, this compelling journal publishes original research and integrative reviews of the highest level of scholarship. Featured studies include both quantitative and qualitative methodologies applied to cognitive, physical, emotional, and social development and behavior. Articles pertinent to the variety of developmental patterns inherent throughout adolescence are featured, including cross-national and cross-cultural studies. Attention is given to normative patterns of behavior as well as individual differences rooted in personal or social and cultural factors.