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The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment

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The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment
Abstract/Description
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
2019
Publisher
Beacon Press
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Textbook
Language
en
ISBN
978-0-8070-6470-2
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (Beacon Press)
Citation
Gillen, J. (2019). The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment. Beacon Press.
Cited in
The Theory and Practice of Democracy and Community
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 6 Citations

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