Revolutionizing Education, Revitalized Creative Resistance Through Youth Participatory Action Research

Part 1: Conceptual Considerations

1. A New Renaissance Era: The Revival of Creative Resistance in Youth Participatory Action Research
Ashley D. Domínguez and Julio Cammarota

2. Participatory Action Research: Historical Roots in the Global South and Intersectional Justice Frameworks
Dana E. Wright

3. Posthumanist Learning and Spooky Entanglements in a Multi-Year Youth Participatory Action Research Project
Thomas Albright, Dana Altshuler, and Shantel Fernandez

Part One Senior Commentary
Louie F. Rodriguez

Part 2: Contexts and Subject Matter Areas

4. Facilitating Space for Creative Resistance Through Literacy and Arts-Based Methods
Courtney Mauldin-Jones

5. Co-Composing a Music of the Oppressed as Critical, Cultural, and Creative Resistance: Whose Voice? Our Voice
Martín Urbach with Maddy Fox and The Circle Keepers Fellows: Yage Lin, Orla Flynn, Emma Jahira Lopez, Sienna Reynolds, Emily Duenas, Kira Ha-Healey, and Aislinn Cao

6. Revolutionizing Adult-Led Research-Practice Partnerships Through YPAR: Theatrical, Mindful, and Artful Joy With Guatemalan Newcomer Youth
Sophia Piral Lee and Van Lac

7. Desert Stories of Environmental Justice Through YPAR With High Schoolers in an After-school Club: Don’t Drink the Water!
Julio Cammarota, Cindy Cruz, Saray Argumedo, Caren Zimmerman, Celina “La Loterio” Corral Arreola, Leticia Valdez, Giselle Galvan, Claudia Arreola, Demarco Royster, Jesus Luzania, Eliseo Somoano, and Safrio Encinas Gomez

8. Disrupting Sexual Exploitation With Native Youth: Digging Up the Roots with Arts-Based Participatory Action Research
Katie Johnston-Goodstar, Montana Filoteo, Rayan Arnold, Baki Porter, Kiora Matthews, Khaloni Freemont, G. Nic Rider, Barbara McMorris, and Lauren Martin

9. Arts-Based Methods of Creative Resistance: Ideas for YPAR Collectives from the Youth Research Council
Meagan Call-Cummings, Lin Rudder, Bethany Monea, Widad Khalid, Duchmaa Ariunbold, Sabry Tate, Anya Dutta, Reanna Vardhanapu, and Khaseem Davis

Part 2 Senior Commentary
Ben Kirshner

Part 3: Outcomes of Engaging in YPAR

10. From Critical Consciousness to Creative Resistance: The Impacts of Youth Participatory Oral History in NYC Schools Serving Youth From Immigrant Households
Samuel Finesurrey, with Navil Abreu, Samantha Bruno, Aldry J. Capellan, Ixchel de Dios, Jonathan Erazo, Abigail Eusebio, Thierno Diallo, Emma Fernandez, Alanna Garcia, Aslyn Harvey, Viviana Houck-Loomis, Bashir Juwara, Aidan Lam, Gabriela Mena, Alison Mosquera, Sheylany Paulino, Dana Pérez, Jacob Rodriguez, Samantha Ruiz-Correa, Nathaniel Santiago, Juliette Vargas Hernandez, Alyssa Victoria, and Maya Whitfield

11. Fostering Joy and Liberation: The Healing Path of Youth Participatory Action Research
Andrea N. Juarez Mendoza, Desiree Armas, Niara Frankson, Zenetta Zepeda, and Jennifer Ayala

12. Reframing Youth Participatory Action Research Outcomes for Creative Resistance
Amanda C. Wager, Kristen P. Goessling, Dana E. Wright, and Marit Dewhurst

Part 3 Senior Commentary
Tara Brown

Conclusion
Julio Cammarota and Ashley D. Domínguez

Epilogue: Intellectual Fire in Fascist Times: YPAR as Fuel in the Struggle for Education and Youth Justice
Michelle Fine

Biography

Ashley D. Domínguez is Assistant Professor of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.

Julio Cammarota is Professor of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.

“The second volume of Revolutionizing Education is evidence that Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) has remained and will continue to blaze new paths in our understanding of research, pushing against norms of what we consider evidence, knowledge, and knowing…the authors continue this tradition by brilliantly blending empirical precision, scientific imagination, creative expression, and methodological love.”
From the Foreword by Shawn A. Ginwright, Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA

"This timely volume is both a resource and a call to action for all those committed to joining youth and communities in creative resistance through participatory research."
Django Paris, Professor of Multicultural Education, University of Washington, USA

“With consciousness and care, Drs. Cammarota and Domínguez have gathered community members, youth and scholars to tell an unapologetic truth in fascist times. It is my hope that we take the lessons from this book and continue to fight with righteous rage. As the youth constantly remind us, ‘we are the only ones who will get us out of this mess.’”
David Stovall, Professor of Educational Policy and African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

"We are indebted to Ashley D. Domínguez and Julio Cammarota for gathering writers/scholars/artists/students together, again, to affirm that young people are deeply engaged in asking hard questions, gathering collective materials, analyzing with critical theory, and (re)presenting themselves/their communities and their struggles with critical science and through the arts."
From the Epilogue by Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology and Urban Education CUNY, USA and Visiting Professor at the University of South Africa