Educational Foundations articles from January 2007

Educational Foundations archives from January 2007

"Today we March, tomorrow we vote": youth transforming despair into social justice.
January 1, 2007... I wonder when all this madness is going to go away, when we all can reunite together as a nation... I hear crying and lost souls screaming for help so loud to the point where life just passed you by like a vapor. I see dead corpses lying on...

Organizing MySpace: youth walkouts, pleasure, politics, and new media.
January 1, 2007... While the major urban centers around the country were flooded by millions of protesters demanding immigrant rights in March 2006, the San Francisco Bay Area remained relatively quiet. A coalition of organizers, including Centro Legal de la...

Young people assert and forge cultural identities in the course of their political activism within alternative spaces.
January 1, 2007... The article examines African-American, Latina/o, and White high school students' assertions of cultural and ethnic identities as they struggle for their educational rights in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. In doing so, the study illustrates the...

"Eyes on me regardless": youth responses to high school surveillance.
January 1, 2007... In public schools across the country, students are encountering the effects of a variety of security measures designed to make schools safer. Students enter and exit their schools through metal detectors, scanning machines, and under the...

Students Informing Now (S.I.N.) Challenge the Racial State in California without Shame ... SIN Verguenza!
January 1, 2007... It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.--Paulo Freire On a cold and wet Friday night in January of 2006,...

Chinese American students fight for their rights.
January 1, 2007... Introduction Adolescents in suburban American schools are expected to follow class rules and school discipline policies, and little attention has been paid to their rights. Since young people in schools have little power, they usually...

Discovering the possibilities: a study of African American youth resistance and Activism.
January 1, 2007... Theoretical Framework This article builds on the work of youth development psychologists, social movements, critical class-race theory, and group theory. Arguably, youth have historically responded to external forces in part due to their...