Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibili

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Highlights the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and well being. This volume offers insights into how to increase the effectiveness of youth development and education programs, and how to create responsive youth policies at the local, state, and federal level.

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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 tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and well being. Inspired by the conviction that urban youth have the right to more equitable educational and social resources and political representation, Beyond Resistance! offers new insights into how to increase the effectiveness of youth development and education programs, and how to create responsive youth policies at the local, state, and federal level.

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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 among urban youth. This volume brings together the work of leading urban youth scholars, highlighting the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and well being. Building on empirical research, the authors outline both theoretical approaches and concrete strategies for educators, youth development practitioners, and policy makers. Undergirded by the conviction that urban youth have the right to a more equitable education, social resources, and political representation, Beyond Resistance! offers new insights into how to increase the effectiveness of both youth development programs and education, and how to create more humane and responsive youth policies at the local, state and federal level.

Author Biography

Pedro Noguera is Professor at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University.Julio Cammarota is an assistant professor in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and the Mexican-American Studies & Research Center at the University of Arizona.ShawnGinwright is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at Santa Clara University.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Reframing Youth Resistance: Building Theories of Youth Activism 1. Beyond Policy: Ideology, Race and the Re-imagining of Youth 2. Examining Youth Organizing and Identity-Support: Two Civic Activist Approaches for Engaging Youth in Social Justice 3. Teaching and Learning in Youth Activism: A Case for Youth-Centered Apprenticeships 4. Sociopolitical Development: The Missing Link in Research and Policy on Adolescents 5. The Racial Dimensions of Social Capital: Towards a New Understanding of Youth Empowerment & Community Organizing in America's Urban Core Section 2: Learning for Justice: Innovative Pedagogies for Justice in Schools 6. From Hunger Strike to High School: Youth Development, Social Justice and School Formation 7. Youth Initiated Research as a Tool for Advocacy and Change in Urban Schools 8. 'Best of Both Worlds': Youth Poetry as Social Critique and Form of Empowerment 9. Urban Youth, Media Literacy, and Increased Critical Civic Participation Section 3: Street Corner Democracy: Youth, Civil Society and Community Change 10. From Hip Hop to Humanization: Café Teatro Batey Urbano, Latino Youth Culture and Community Action 11. Participation in Social Change: Shifting Adolescents' Developmental Pathways 12. Youth of Color Movement for Juvenile Justice 13. 'Taking Their Own Power': Urban Youth, Community-Based Youth Organizations, and Public Efficacy 14. Taking Charge in Lake Wobegon: Youth, Social Justice, and Anti-Racist Organizing in the Twin Cities Section 4: Perspectives on Youth Civic Engagement and Youth Policies 15. Researching and Resisting: Democratic Policy Research By and For Youth 16. Promoting Citizenship and Activism in Today's Youth, Lonnie Sherrod 17. Youth Policy and Institutional Change18. Youth Participation for Educational Reform in Low-Income Communities of Colors Conclusion: Youth Agency, Resistance, and Civic Activism: the Public Commitment to Social Justice

Review

"This volume examines some of the ways in which young people across the United States are being engaged in school reform and community activism" --Theory Into Practice: Urban Education

Long Description

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. Urban youth have been particularly affected by this transformation. The failure of urban school districts and the lack of jobs, health services and effective prevention and intervention programs have placed large numbers of low-income urban youth at risk. In the absence of policies and institutions that respond to the needs of youth, a climate of fear focused particularly on responding to fears of youth crime has also shaped a national consciousness about urban communities and the youth within them. "Urban Youth and Community" "Change" brings together work by leading scholars who study urban youth and who have a grounded knowledge of the issues they face. A commitment to social justice and equity is a unifying theme for this volume, and each of the authors examines to varying degrees how such values and commitments can be incorporated into public policy. The goal of this edited volume is to draw on the knowledge and expertise of these scholars from various academic disciplines and to share with policymakers and the general public insights into the impact of punitive/zero tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and well being. These chapters also offer new ideas about how to support youth placed at risk by deteriorating circumstances in urban areas and offers recommendations on how to create more humane and responsive youth policies at the local, state and federal level.

Details ISBN0415952506 Short Title BEYOND RESISTANCE YOUTH ACTIVI Series Critical Youth Studies Language English ISBN-10 0415952506 ISBN-13 9780415952507 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2006 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Pedro Noguera Edition 1st Subtitle New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth Affiliation San Francisco State University, USA DOI 10.1604/9780415952507 AU Release Date 2006-03-30 NZ Release Date 2006-03-30 UK Release Date 2006-03-30 Author Shawn Ginwright Pages 400 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2006-03-30 Alternative 9780415952514 DEWEY 362.70830973 Illustrations 10 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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