Partnerships and Pedagogical Collaboration: A Research University and Continuation High School

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 45
  In Roundtable Session: Supporting Youth Through School-University Partnerships

Abstract

This paper explores both the significance of a collaborative alternative education program between a research one university and local continuation high school as well as how such an educational endeavor may reproduce and/or resist deficit model ideologies and nondominant student internalizations of failure. Specifically, I make visible the processes of learning during the university’s alternative program, housed within the continuation high school setting. Preliminary analyses suggest that alternative programs, although theorized as alternative, may in fact reproduce marginalizing school practices and educational inequalities. At the same time however, these spaces have potential in fostering youth driven, community-based participatory work where students transcend the perils of social categorization and academic injustice.

Author

• Jenny Sperling, University of California - Santa Barbara