Metanoia in Youth Participatory Action Research: Transforming Ourselves, Transforming Our Communities

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 34

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session brings together an intergenerational team of youth researchers, teachers, and university researchers to reflect on social, intellectual, and personal transformation as well communal change as part of a New York City public high school-based youth participatory action research (YPAR) program. The session includes an opportunity for participants to explore with youth researchers as they grapple with how to take their data and findings to produce meaningful change and contemplate their own transformations. A great amount of time will be allotted for conversation with the audience, as our goal is to complicate notions of inquiry, knowledge production, and transformation in schools and classrooms.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Macro-analysis of the social contexts of teaching and learning

Chair

• Ernest D. Morrell, University of Notre Dame

Papers

• Metanoia and the Challenges of Change-Making in Youth Participatory Action Research Classrooms - Tiffany A. DeJaynes, Lehman College; Christopher Curmi, New York City Department of Education

• Research Transformations - Tabatha Cortes; Tibian Elsharief

• Youth Researchers Symposium - Christopher Curmi, New York City Department of Education

Discussant

• Ernest D. Morrell, University of Notre Dame