Positioning Youth as Organic Intellectuals to Address Belonging Blindspots that Get Overlooked in Contemporary Educational Research

Session Type: Workshop

Abstract

This session showcases emergent methodologies and outputs from rigorous youth-led research projects, with a special emphasis on addressing belonging blind spots—the overlooked and often invisible dimensions of interpersonal, instructional, and institutional opportunities to belong within educational spaces. Through creative scholarly methods and artifacts such as photovoice, digital storytelling, visual art and architectural design, youth researchers use data to understand social processes from new vantage points. Each project will be presented through interactive, multimodal displays—utilizing iPads and QR-linked artifacts—transforming research dissemination into an engaging, community engaged experience that weaves together the imagination and creativity of youth with rigorous scholarship.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction

Chairs

• Joanna N. Ali, North Carolina State University

• Briana Green, Michigan State University

• DeLeon Gray, North Carolina State University

Session Organizer

• DeLeon Gray, North Carolina State University

Discussant

• Janeen Perry-Campbell, Wake County Public School System