(Re)framing service-learning with youth participatory action research: examining students’ critical agency
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Melissa Cochrane Bocci (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Silvia Bettez
Abstract: The current push for K-12 service-learning, particularly as an intervention strategy for “at-risk” youth, makes more urgent the need for critical service-learning constructions that counter deficit ideologies. Responding to this need, the researcher designed, implemented, and researched a course-embedded service-learning project conducted with Latin@ high school students considered “at-risk” by school personnel. To explore the possibilities of creating a critical, social justice, asset-oriented service-learning project in a core classroom setting specifically designed to foster students’ critical agency, the researcher and students blended the service-learning with Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) methods. The findings of the postcritical ethnography of this course-embedded YPAR guided service-learning project indicate that the project did create a unique space within the school for fostering critical agency. Additionally, the work demonstrates how service-learning and YPAR can inform one another, creating a more asset-based and social justice-oriented practice. Finally, the findings model how teachers can successfully navigate the pedagogical, ideological, and practical challenges of fully embedding YPAR and/or service-learning projects into their core classroom practice.
(Re)framing service-learning with youth participatory action research: examining students’ critical agency
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2016
- Keywords
- At-risk students, Critical agency, Critical youth studies, Service-learning, Spanish classroom practice, YPAR
- Subjects
- Action research in education
- Service learning
- Social justice $x Study and teaching (Secondary)
- Hispanic American high school students
- Hispanic American youth $x Education (Secondary)
- Youth with social disabilities $x Education (Secondary)