Collective Responsibility and Social Identities: Learning From One Young Person’s Engagement as a Youth Teacher

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 9:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Youth Civic Engagement and Attitudes Toward Social Justice and Morality (Table 1)

Abstract

Young people are brilliant beings with knowledge, histories, and dreams that educators must learn to value, affirm, and sustain. Educators and educational stakeholders have much to learn from youth-led organizations that center young people's voices, identities, goals, and epistemologies. In this paper, I describe and explain how one young person reflects on her identities and experiences as a STEM facilitator, mentor, learner, and teacher while working at a youth-led organization. This case study examines how the young person understood herself, her responsibilities, and her duties at The Young People’s Project and how collective responsibility in the organization contributed to her experience.

Authors

• Ashley Houston-King, Boston University

• Katherine K. Frankel, Boston University

• Eli Tucker-Raymond, Boston University

• Maria C. Olivares, Boston University