Youth dialogue and design for educational possibility: eliciting youth voice in community development. Issue 2 (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Richardson Bruna, Katherine; McNelly, Carla A.; Greder, Kimberly; Rongerude, Jane
• Is Part Of: Journal of community practice. Volume 28:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 121
• Page End: 131
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Community development -- university partnership -- educational equity -- youth research; Community organization -- Periodicals; Social work administration -- Periodicals; Community development -- Periodicals; 361.05
• DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2020.1757006
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1070-5422

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Working with a community-based organization, we engaged middle school youth in mapping the realities of and dreams for their neighborhoods. We document the process we used to guide youth reflection on themselves as learners and, more specifically, detail our discoveries about their schools as learning places. Using critical literacy as a frame, we assert that youth insights about the physical, relational, and agentive environments of school reveal that they were able to read themselves as products of their community "text" in ways supported by scholarly understandings of educational inequity. This advanced and legitimized youth representation in our university-school-community partnership effort.