Consent to participate in research
Adults, young people, and whose perspective counts
Rate each statement from 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree). Go with your first honest reaction. You may leave any item blank.
Scenario
Which of these is closest to your first read of what's going on?
Structure, control, and what young people need
Rate each statement from 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree). You may leave any item blank.
Child-rearing in the past and nowadays
In your opinion, which generation was the last to apply “old fashioned” educational practices?
Statements about the education of children
Here follow some statements about practices concerning the education of children drawn from the psychological and pedagogical literature on the topic. Read each sentence and mark the number indicating your level of agreement, according to the following response scale:
How widespread were — and are — these practices?
For this section, please use the following response scale:
In your opinion, how much were the following measures widespread as “old fashioned” educational means?
According to your experience, to what extent are “old fashioned” educational means still in use nowadays?
A couple of brief background questions
Entirely optional — skip either or both if you'd rather not answer. These questions help researchers describe the study sample as a whole; they are never used to identify anyone.
What is your gender?
What is your race and/or ethnicity? (Select all that apply.)
What your lens looks like
Your scores on the Black Pedagogy Scale
Sections 4 and 5 were the Black Pedagogy Scale, a published research instrument (see debrief below).
The connection, in three moves
What you let in. An adultcentric lens filters the young person's own testimony out of the evidence — their words count less, so less reaches your model of them.
How you interpret — and whether you check. The blind spot isn't holding a wrong read; it's holding it confidently and closing early, without asking. Confidence without checking is the monitoring failure.
What you do. Acting on a confident misread tends toward control: consequences, compliance, tighter structure. That is control doing the work that curiosity should have done.
Three questions to sit with
- Think of the last time a young person's behavior confused or frustrated you. Did you ask them what was going on — or did you decide what was going on?
- When was the last time a young person's perspective actually changed something you do? If you can't think of one, what does that say about the direction information flows?
- Where in your day could “I know what this is” become “I wonder what this is”?
About this study (debrief)
This study examines a theorized chain linking adultcentrism (over-weighting adult interpretations of young people's behavior), metacognitive monitoring (whether high confidence in a read is paired with checking it), and Bleak Pedagogy (control-oriented teaching and caregiving responses), framed in the Wholistic Problem Solving Input–Processing–Output structure and Nelson & Narens' model of metacognitive monitoring and control. Sections 4–5 reproduced the Black Pedagogy Scale (Florio, E., Caso, L., & Castelli, I., 2020, “The Black Pedagogy Scale: A New Task to Explore Educational Practices for Children's Well-Being,” Europe's Journal of Psychology, 16(2), 331–351, doi:10.5964/ejop.v16i2.1876), an open-access instrument distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 license and used here in the authors' English translation for exploratory research purposes. Your personal results above are reflective, not diagnostic. Questions: [email protected].
