The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment
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- Title
- The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment
- Abstract/Description
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Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen describes the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP) as a youth-run cooperative enterprise in which young people direct their peers’ and their own learning for a wage. BAP and similar enterprises are creating an educational network of empowered, employed students.
Gillen argues that this is a proactive political, economic, and educational structure that builds relationships among and between students and their communities. It’s a structure that meets communal needs—material and social, economic and political—both now and in the future. Through the story of the Baltimore Algebra Project, readers will learn why youth employment is a priority, how to develop democratic norms and cultures, how to foster positive community roles for 20–30 year-olds, and how to implement educational accountability from below. - Author/creator
- Gillen, Jay
- Date
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Resource type
- en Research/Scholarly Media
- Resource status/form
- en Published Text
- Scholarship genre
- en Textbook
- Language
- en
- Open access/full-text available
- en No
- Peer reviewed
- en No
- ISBN
- 978-0-8070-6470-2
- Citation
- Gillen, J. (2019). The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment. Beacon Press.
- Item sets
- Handbook Chapter 6 Citations
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