Engaging Youth in Critical Arts Pedagogies and Creative Research for Social Justice
Opportunities and Challenges of Arts-based Work and Research with Young People
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Engaging Youth in Critical Arts Pedagogies and Creative Research for Social Justice
Opportunities and Challenges of Arts-based Work and Research with Young People
About This Book
Originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, this volume explores how researchers, educators, artists, and scholars can collaborate with, and engage young people in art, creative practice, and research to work towards social justice and political engagement.
By critically interrogating the dominant discourses, cultural, and structural obstacles that we all face today, this volume explores the potential of critical arts pedagogies and community-based research projects to empower young people as agents of social change. Chapters offer nuanced analyses of the limits of arts-based social justice collaborations, and grapple with key ethical, practical, and methodological issues that can arise in creative approaches to youth participatory action research. Theoretical contributions are enhanced by Notes from the Field, which highlight prime examples of arts-based youth work occurring across North America. As a whole, the volume powerfully advocates for collaborative creative practices that facilitate young people to build power, hope, agency, and skills through creative social engagement.
This volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, postgraduate students, and scholar-practitioners involved in community- and arts-based research and education, as well as those working with marginalized youth to improve their opportunities and access to a quality education and to deepen their political participation and engagement in intergenerational partnerships aiming to increase the conditions for social justice.
Frequently asked questions
Information
Art is a rigorous medium for analyzing, producing, and sharing knowledge
1 Countering Dominant Discourses about Youth
Critical Arts Approaches to Analyze Ideological and Institutional Oppressions
Introduction
- In what ways might youth discourses that classify youth as categorically distinct from adults construct and marginalize young peopleās knowledge production, systemic analysis, and transformative agency?
- How can educators support approaches to advance young peopleās learning in ways that blur the distinctions between adult and youth roles, disrupt asymmetrical power relations, and engage youth expertise and analysis to design research, shape curriculum design, produce knowledge and partner with adults on community action plans?
- How can researchers, theorists, and educators support curriculum and pedagogical strategies to promote young peopleās knowledge production, systemic analysis, and transformative agency to address and transform structural injustices?
Critical Youth Studies (CYS)
Examining Pathologizing Youth Discourses
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Education for Liberation Timeline: By Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
- Introduction: A Playlist for a Praxis of Possibilities: Reflecting on Creative and Critical Research with Young People
- Intergenerational Organizing for Movement Building in the Eastside of Los Angeles
- Part 1: Art is a rigorous medium for analyzing, producing, and sharing knowledge
- Part 2: Authentic and reciprocal relationships matter
- Part 3: Change can occur on multiple levels, oftentimes simultaneously
- Part 4: It is all about praxis and the process
- Index