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Critical Youth Engagement: Participatory Action Research and Organizing

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Title
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)
Author/creator
Fox, Madeline
Mediratta, Kavitha
Ruglis, Jessica
Stoudt, Brett
Shah, Seema
Fine, Michelle
Date
2010
In publication
Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement in Youth
Pages
621-649
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Keywords
action research
motivation
immigration
activism
athletic participation
experimentation
human rights
lower income level
social equity
urban environments
Open access/full-text available
en 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
DOI
10.1002/9780470767603.ch23
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (Wiley Online Library)
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
Cited in
Solidarity-Driven Codesign: Evolving Methodologies for Expanding Engagement with Familial & Community Expertise
Place
Hoboken, NJ, US
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 16 Citations

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