Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality / Ben Kirshner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirshner, Benjamin, Author.

Series:

Qualitative studies in psychology.

Qualitative Studies in Psychology ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Youth--Political activity--United States.

Youth.

Minority high school students--Political activity--United States.

Minority high school students.

High school students--Political activity--United States.

High school students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner, 2016 Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters to protest high school closure. Young immigration rights activists persuade state legislators to pass a bill to make in-state tuition available to undocumented state residents. Students in an ESL class collect survey data revealing the prevalence of racism and xenophobia. These examples, based on ten years of research by youth development scholar Ben Kirshner, show young people building political power during an era of racial inequality, diminished educational opportunity, and an atrophied public square. The book’s case studies analyze what these experiences mean for young people and why they are good for democracy. What is youth activism and how does it contribute to youth development? How might collective movements of young people expand educational opportunity and participatory democracy? The interdependent relationship between youths’ political engagement, their personal development, and democratic renewal is the central focus of this book. Kirshner argues that youth and societal institutions are strengthened when young people, particularly those most disadvantaged by educational inequity, turn their critical gaze to education systems and participate in efforts to improve them.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Critique and Collective Agency in Youth Development

2. Millennial Youth and the Fight for Opportunity

3. “Not Down with the Shut Down”

4. Teaching without Teaching

5. Schools as Sites of Struggle

Conclusion

Methodological Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4798-0556-4

OCLC:

922640604