Casting Shadows and Shedding Light: Promoting Historical Empathy With Youth Participatory Action Research

• In Event: Teaching, Interrogating, and Dismantling Historical Injustices

Abstract

This study explores a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project about the history and legacy of Shermantown, a historically Black community, and its relationship with Stone Mountain, Georgia. During the investigation, we sought to understand how youth develop and experience historical empathy as part of place-based, community engaged research.

Authors

• Katherine A. Perrotta, Mercer University

• Leah Panther, Mercer University

• Sally Stanhope, DeKalb County School System