Circle Keepers: Investigating Peacemaking and Peacekeeping in High School Settings by Teens for Teens and With Teens

• In Event: Use of Collaborative Action Research to Create Change

Abstract

#riseUP! A Black Lives Matter in Music Education Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) proposes a paradigm shift in music education, moving away from a skill based system of banking education where the students (apprentices) do only/mainly as the master (teacher) tells them to (Freire,1970, Allssup, 2016) and toward a critical, youth co-created liberatory pedagogy where students use music to read the world as well as the word. Reimagining Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Culture Circles and influenced by music activists in the world, #riseUP! positions youth as co-creators of culture, research, theory, and knowledge.

Author

• Martin Urbach, Harvest Collegiate High School