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Liberatory Practices for Learning: Dismantling Social Inequality and Individualism with Ancient Wisdom (Postcolonial Studies in Education)
This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today. These neoliberalist hierarchies imposed through traditional, autocratic knowledge systems have driven... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion (Critical Youth Studies)
Many scholars have turned to the groundbreaking critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address both the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people. Revolutionizing Education makes an extraordinarily ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth (Critical Youth Studies)
The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, educational equity, and healthy adulthood. This volume brings together the work of leading urban youth scholars to highlight the detrimental impact of zero ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change
Over the past decade, urban communities have experienced unprecedented social, economic, and political transformation. Globalization and de-industrialization have contributed to the exodus of jobs, produced higher levels of inequality, and consequent, furthered marginalization of the urban poor. Urb... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006