Aspiring and Practicing School Leaders Engaging in Participatory Action Research Alongside Minoritized Youth

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

Youth participatory action research (YPAR) has garnered attention in the field of educational leadership in recent years. However, the extant literature highlights substantial barriers when minoritized youth seek to engage in YPAR in schools, particularly from resistant school staff and administrators. However, this convening strives to highlight empirical research that examines the role of supportive aspiring and practicing educational leaders, working alongside marginalized students and families to create social change. This roundtable session will converge stakeholders from across the country who have engaged in YPAR within P-12 settings: practicing administrators, aspiring school leaders, and university researchers.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Division A - Section 4: School Contexts and Communities

Chair

• Van T. Lac, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers

• "I Was a Bad Kid": Utilizing Youth Participatory Action Research to Promote Educational Dignity in a Title I Elementary School - Van T. Lac, University of Illinois at Chicago; Asia Mitchell

• Unaccompanied Youth in an Urban School - Leyda Waleska Garcia, University of California - Los Angeles

• "Elementary Students Are Capable of Anything": Examining the Co-Construction of Student Voice Initiatives With an Elementary School Principal - Courtney C. Mauldin, Syracuse University

Discussant

• Melanie Bertrand, University of Arizona