By Us, for Us, and With Us: Minoritized Youth Leveraging Participatory Action Research to Reimagine Educational and Racial Justice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will feature 4 youth groups from across the country who have leveraged participatory action research (PAR) as a tool to address pressing educational and social issues in their schools, neighborhoods and communities. Focusing on a variety of issues that go from computer science education to teacher training, this collection of YPAR projects strives to flip the paradigm of traditional, adult-centric driven research by organizing and featuring exclusively PAR projects led by Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous youth who grapple with critical issues at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, geography, and citizenship.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Education Reform

Chair

• Van T. Lac, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers

• Beyond Centering Voices: Positioning Indigenous Youth as Educational and Community Leaders - Erica Fernandez, Miami University; Brad Kuunux Teerit Kroupa, Indigenous Youth Rising

• Intergenerational Reflection and Collaboration: Youth Organizers and a Teacher Educator Engaging in Community-Based Action Research - Kaitlin E. Popielarz, SEMIS Coalition and We The People of Detroit

• Igniting Youth as Catalysts for Broadening Participation in Computer Science - Susan S. Yonezawa, University of California - San Diego; Minhtuyen Mai, University of California - San Diego

• Art Education as Liberatory Praxis - Ana Carolina Fernandes de Bessa Antunes, University of Utah

Discussant

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago