Toward Transformative Intergenerational Collaboration: Identities, Literacies, and Contexts for Participatory Research With Youth

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Recognizing participatory action research with youth (YPAR) as a unique form of knowledge production that problematizes orthodox research practices and asserts anti-hegemonic knowledges in education, particularly in light of current threats to justice and equity for many marginalized communities, this session explores perspectives, epistemological frameworks, and structures that support intergenerational collaboration with youth. This symposium will 1) present the interdisciplinary conceptual framework that informs a participatory research collaborative between two universities and a youth-engaged research program, 2) offer an interactive experience to highlight the dialogical intergenerational engagement that inspires this research, and 3) provide an opportunity for discussion about the perspectives, contexts, challenges and aspirations of collaborative intergenerational endeavors and their implications for future research, policy, and practice.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Limarys Caraballo, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Growing Together: Sustaining Identities, Literacies, and Epistemologies of Intergenerationality - Limarys Caraballo, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Setting the Stage: Imagining, Planning, and Facilitating Contexts for Intergenerational Inquiry - Karen Zaino, Miami University (OH); Mijin Yeom, Queens College - CUNY

• Centering Youth Voices in Intergenerational and Participatory Inquiry - Diana Liu, Teachers College, Columbia University; Vivett Cereta Hemans Dukes, Teachers College, Columbia University; Edith P. Middleton, Teachers College, Columbia University; Gregory D. Petershack, Teachers College, Columbia University; Fabiola Quinones, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• Emery Marc Petchauer, Teachers College, Columbia University