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- Title
Combining Youth Organizing and Youth Participatory Action Research to Strengthen Student Voice in Education Reform.
- Authors
DOLAN, TOM; CHRISTENS, BRIAN D.; CYNTHIA LIN
- Abstract
Community organizing processes seek to address community issues of mutual concern through cycles of relationship development, research, action, and evaluation led by people directly affected by the issues at stake. This chapter examines a community organizing effort in San Bernardino, California, that has built power to address issues in schools and the broader community. This organizing effort, which has involved leadership by hundreds of youth, has achieved numerous changes in programs and policies that have increased educational, recreational, and employment opportunities for young people. In this chapter, we examine the youth organizers' deepening use of (a) organizing research and (b) youth participatory action research (YPAR). We compare these two types of research in a community organizing context and highlight the ways that each type of research has contributed to successes in collective action.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY-based participatory research; EDUCATIONAL change; EDUCATION policy; EDUCATION; COMMUNITY-school relationships; STUDENT participation in administration; STUDENT-administrator relationships
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 2015, Vol 117, Issue 13, p153
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146811511701303