ABSTRACT
Originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, this volume explores how researchers, educators, artists, and scholars can collaborate with, and engage young people in art, creative practice, and research to work towards social justice and political engagement.
By critically interrogating the dominant discourses, cultural, and structural obstacles that we all face today, this volume explores the potential of critical arts pedagogies and community-based research projects to empower young people as agents of social change. Chapters offer nuanced analyses of the limits of arts-based social justice collaborations, and grapple with key ethical, practical, and methodological issues that can arise in creative approaches to youth participatory action research. Theoretical contributions are enhanced by Notes from the Field, which highlight prime examples of arts-based youth work occurring across North America. As a whole, the volume powerfully advocates for collaborative creative practices that facilitate young people to build power, hope, agency, and skills through creative social engagement.
This volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, postgraduate students, and scholar-practitioners involved in community- and arts-based research and education, as well as those working with marginalized youth to improve their opportunities and access to a quality education and to deepen their political participation and engagement in intergenerational partnerships aiming to increase the conditions for social justice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |2 pages
Education for Liberation Timeline
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
section |58 pages
Art is a rigorous medium for analyzing, producing, and sharing knowledge
chapter 1|24 pages
Countering Dominant Discourses about Youth
chapter 2|27 pages
Youthspaces as Places of Possibility
section |49 pages
Authentic and reciprocal relationships matter
chapter 3|22 pages
Street Wisdom
chapter 4|19 pages
Storying Youth Lives
section |43 pages
Change can occur on multiple levels, oftentimes simultaneously
chapter 5|20 pages
In the Space Between Us
chapter 6|19 pages
Where Did We Go Right (and Wrong)?
section |37 pages
It is all about praxis and the process