Nurturing High School Students of Color's Transformative Agency in a Critical Civic Engagement Program

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Eighteen
  In Roundtable Session: Students as Leaders, Educators of Color, and School Transformation (Table 5)

Abstract

In this proposal, we build on and extend research on transformative agency among youth. More specifically, we draw on ethnographic methods to document a team of high school students of colors’ expressions of agency and the cultural tools that mediate this process. Students were part of a youth-led critical civic engagement program. We draw on ethnographic approaches embedded in a case study design to document and understand the dynamic and culturally mediated process of youths' transformative agency. Our findings indicate culturally mediated tools that shaped facets of team members’ transformative agency across a school year. Our research provides key insights into the kinds of meaning and forms of participation that may fuel and sustain young people’s transformative agency.

Authors

• Enrique Lopez, University of Colorado - Boulder
  Presenting Author

• Charla Agnoletti
  Presenting Author

• Cynthia Corral-Robles
  Non-Presenting Author

• Maria Martinez
  Non-Presenting Author

• Trinity Ornelas
  Non-Presenting Author