Revolutionizing education: Youth participatory action research in motion

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Katie Richards-Schuster

Abstract

This article reviews 'Revolutionizing education', a deeply reflective and retrospective book of scholarship on critical questions about youth participatory action research. The book contains a series of case study chapters that examine how youth participatory action research transforms young people and the social contexts in which they live as well as the learnings and implications yielded from this research. The book examines youth participatory action research both for its radical and revolutionary challenge to 'traditional research' practices but also for its active focus on research as a vehicle for increasing critical consciousness, developing knowledge for 'resistance and transformation' and for creating social change. It represents an important contribution to the field of youth participatory action research and community-based research.

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Katie Richards-Schuster, University of Michigan

Katie Richards-Schuster, PhD, is an Assistant Research Scientist with the Michigan Youth and Community Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Her research focuses on building the capacity of young people to create community change in economically disinvested and racially segregated communities.