Out-of-School Learning: Students' Perspectives

• In Event: 66.058 - Roundtable Session 28
  In Roundtable Session: 66.058-7 - Learning From Youth: Examining Education From the Perspective of Youth

Abstract

An important narrative is all but missing from the discourses around culturally relevant pedagogy (e.g., Ladson-Billings, 1995); children’s voices about what matters to them in their community(ies) and what teachers should know about them are rarely heard. This case study seeks (at least in part) to fill this gap by exploring what can be learned as students assume the agency for teaching practitioners about their out-of-school learning experiences via a photovoice project. Findings suggest that not only do teachers need to create classrooms that validate students’ experiences and acknowledge the assets they bring into the classroom, but they may also (at least in some cases) need to help children see the value in what they bring into the classroom.

Author

• Abigail Felber-Smith, Saint Paul Public Schools