ISBN:
9781003029021
,
1003029027
,
9781000771183
,
1000771180
,
9781000771169
,
1000771164
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) :
,
illustrations.
Series Statement:
Youth, young adulthood and society
Series Statement:
Youth, young adulthood and society.
Parallel Title:
Print version: Youth, education and wellbeing in the Americas
DDC:
305.235097
Keywords:
Youth Civil rights
;
Education
;
Education.
;
Youth Civil rights.
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
;
America.
;
Electronic books.
Abstract:
"This book explores ways in which education supports or negates the wellbeing and rights of young people in/from the Americas. It shows how young people diagnose problems and propose important new directions for education. A collective chronicle from researchers working alongside young people in Chile, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, and the Caribbean and Latin American diaspora in Canada, the authors embrace the work in terms of justice: intergenerational, racial, cultural, and ecological with/by/for various groups of young people. This book delves into the wide gap between the expressed rights of young people in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the ways in which education operates. In so doing it examines the entrenched colonial legacies which persist including systemic racism, flabby curriculum, hyper-surveillance and broken promises for care and human relationships needed to support youth. The resourceful young people shown here-who identify as Latin American, Black, Indigenous and/or diasporic-are diagnosing and negotiating these injustices in revolutionary moves for education. Teachers, parents, communities and youth themselves could learn from these critical, transformative and anticolonial youthful pedagogies for being with education. This book will appeal to scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners in the areas of youth studies, education, social justice, sociology, human rights, wellbeing and social work"--
DOI:
10.4324/9781003029021
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003029021
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