It Takes a Village: How School-Community Partnerships Enhance Youth Agency

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 13
  In Poster Session: Family-School-Community Partnerships Poster Session

Abstract

This paper explores how the opportunity for youth to articulate their desires is enhanced through their stop-motion film projects via a school-community partnership during a week-long media arts residency. The research addresses how collaborations between schools and communities facilitate the illumination of youth agency by: (1) leveraging the differing expertise of school teachers and museum teaching artists and (2) adapting preconceived curriculum to reflect students’ desires. Findings advance the ways that multiple stakeholders can work together to engage youth interests and magnify their agency.

Authors

• Diana Chandara, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Betsy Maloney Leaf, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Bic H. Ngo, University of Minnesota