This book provides a step-by-step guide for teachers to implement an action-based
curriculum, using young adult literature to engage students with contemporary issues. In …

In an attempt to tackle issues of racism in the US public education system, school districts
throughout the country are paying particular attention to how teachers and educational …

In this article, the authors—university faculty members working across college and school
contexts in the United States—detail how teacher educators might address two challenges …

Abstract his paper documents the incentives for, processes of, and outcomes from our multi-
year community-based research project on youth engagement. In line with the theme of the …

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how engaging youth at risk through
a youth-led approach to recreation and leisure programming can contribute to leisure …

Even before the recent election highlighted the growing racial, economic, and economic
divides that are fracturing our country, violent civil unrest and increasing levels of civic …

There are five different constructs related to youth leadership:(1) youth,(2) youth voice,(3)
youth-adult partnerships,(4) youth participatory action research (YPAR), and (5) youth …

This qualitative dissertation study aims to examine the role that social justice-based After-
School (AS) programs play in the development of asset-based oppositional behaviors that …

In this article, we revisit the co‐creation of a 45‐min film, Gender is Like an Ocean, produced
with middle school students in response to Kirstin Cronn‐Mills's young adult novel Beautiful …

In 2003, Canada proclaimed a new Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), which aims to reduce
the use of courts and custody for the majority of adolescent offenders because “measures …