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Session Type: Symposium
In an era marked by political polarization, chronic underfunding, and rising youth crises, school-university-community collaborative research and practice is more crucial than ever. This multigenerational symposium draws on lessons from a network of university-community partnerships (University-Community Links), itself created at a time of crisis as a strategy to overcome institutional racism when affirmative action was eliminated in California (1996). Together, we explore how universities, schools, and local communities, as collaborative partners, work together to research and co-create more just and equitable educational environments, particularly in times of transition and crisis. Presentations implement community-based design approaches and highlight, through diverse ethnographic contexts, the challenges and innovations of school-university-community partnership, reflecting on experiences from their collaborative research and practice.
Community Mapping at the Turn of the Tide: System-Research that Builds Collaborative Culture and Resiliency - Leslie A. Lopez, University of California - Santa Cruz
Youth Participatory Action Research: Transforming Systems to Address Student Homelessness - Deborah McKoy, University of California - Berkeley; Ruby Kosewicz-Strickland, University of California - Berkeley
Design Tensions in Developing Partnerships in Challenging Circumstances - Lee Michael Martin, University of California - Davis; J.C. Leapman, University of California - Davis
Listening and Co-Creating Knowledge: A Qualitative Analysis of University Student Experiences of YPAR - Erin Rose Ellison, California State University - Sacramento; Julia Early, California State University - Sacramento; Juan Antonio Juarez, California State University - Sacramento; Vanesa Reyes, California State University - Sacramento; Javier Vega, California State University - Sacramento; Jasleen Ralh, California State University - Sacramento; Paige Richards, Fresno Pacific University