Critical Youth Engagement: Participatory Action Research and Organizing
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Critical Youth Engagement: Participatory Action Research and Organizing
Abstract/Description
This chapter explores critical youth engagement: how young people—especially those from low-income and immigrant communities—understand conditions of social inequity and negotiate these stresses psychologically and politically. Further, it examines the conditions under which they decide to take up civic engagement by confronting structural injustice and human rights violations collectively. We witness critical youth engagement among low-income urban youth through a youth participatory action research (YPAR) and youth organizing approach. The second half of the chapter describes and explores this methodology. We also consider what critical youth engagement and YPAR means for social research, especially for research on youth civic engagement across populations of youth from any background. We hope that our chapter provides a wide-angle research agenda that can capture the theoretical and empirical wingspan of critical youth engagement projects on youth, adults, institutions, social movements, and youth policy, over time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
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Date
In publication
Pages
621-649
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
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Published Text
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Open access/full-text available
No
ISBN
978-0-470-52274-5
978-0-470-63678-7
978-0-470-63679-4
978-0-470-63680-0
978-0-470-76760-3
Citation
Fox, M., Mediratta, K., Ruglis, J., Stoudt, B., Shah, S., & Fine, M. (2010). Critical youth engagement: Participatory action research and organizing. In Handbook of research on civic engagement in youth (pp. 621–649). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470767603.ch23
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