Access, Inequality, and Representation: Youth Narratives on School Curricula and Civic Engagement (Poster 4)

• In Event: Sunday Poster Session 9:35 am
  In Poster Session: Toward Justice Among BIPOC Youth

Abstract

Questions related to educational access, racial and social inequality, and equitable representation are core issues addressed by youth activism and civic engagement. This poster will focus on youths’ interpretations of and responses to these issues in an intergenerational social inquiry discussion and youth civic engagement research project. Meeting biweekly, virtually and in person, 25 youths, and their researcher-mentors, grapple with critical educational and social problems and conceptualize, conduct, and write about community-based research. Projects range from racial bias in school access and curricula to health equity to urban displacement of historically marginalized groups. Focused on youth research, the presentation will center youths’ oral and written discourses, reflected in their activist research and accounts of how research can inform meaningful change.

Authors

• Vivian L. Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania

• Maritza Moulite, University of Pennsylvania

• Giuliana de Grazia, University of Pennsylvania

• Jennifer Freed, University of Pennsylvania

• Daris McInnis, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

• Sharnita Midgett, University of Pennsylvania

• Jennifer Nunez, University of Pennsylvania