Empowering Youth Researchers Through Engaged Scholarship: A Collaborative Reflective Practice

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Abstract

Reflective practice is a requirement of effective pedagogy (Winkel et al., 2017), including when preparing youth as researchers. This paper shares the reflections of three graduate students who assisted in implementing a development program for youth researchers as part of a participatory NSF-funded project. Guided by a collaborative self-study approach, graduate students participated in the reflective practice to document their experiences mentoring the youth researchers and learning from the community-engaged scholarship. This paper contributes to the field of action research by leveraging the voices of graduate students to demonstrate the significance of reflective practice in their professional development. Additionally, it provides a partnership model for youth researcher development programs in a community-based context, offering broader implications for engaged scholarship.

Authors

• Yiheng Zhou, University of Iowa

• Tugce Karatas, Purdue University

• Viviana Piceno, Purdue University

• Amanda Sommerfeld Case, University of Iowa