1st Edition
Youth, Education and Wellbeing in the Americas
Foreword
Henry Parada
1. The crucible of education with/by/for youth in the Americas
Kate Tilleczek
2. Youth and the right to education in the Dominican Republic
Sara Guilamo Jimenez and Ana Luisa Reyes
3. The right to education and wellbeing for youth in Guatemala
Belia Aydée Villeda Erazo
4. Youth, education & wellbeing in Honduras: A sociological analysis
María Victoria Ponce Mendoza and Anna Sarony Barahona Rivera
5. Formal education and lived experiences of boys on the margins in Trinidad and Tobago: insights from Institutional Ethnography
Godfrey St. Bernard, Shivana Chankar and Safia King
6. Examining the educational rights of Black Caribbean diasporic youth in Toronto, Canada
Giselle Thompson and Tka Pinnock
7. Black youth disengaging from Ontario’s educational system: Grounded Theory of their educational experiences
Travonne Edwards and Henry Parada
8. Latin American youth and belonging at school in Ontario, Canada
Veronica Escobar Olivo, Henry Parada and Fabiola Limón Bravo
9. Wekimün School: Education with/by/for Indigenous youth and communities in Chile
Pablo Aránguiz Mesias, Kate Tilleczek and Deborah MacDonald
10. Youthful pedagogies for just transitions to wellbeing with/in complex worlds
Pablo Aránguiz Mesias, Kate Tilleczek and Deborah MacDonald
11. Youth as educational revolutionaries: dispatches with/in the Americas
Kate Tilleczek
Biography
Kate C. Tilleczek is a grandmother, educator, and Canada Research Chair in Youth, Education & Global Good at York University. She is full professor and director of the Young Lives Research Laboratory, which she founded in 2009 as a unique intergenerational space within and beyond the university to understand, investigate, support and amplify work with/by/for young people and their various communities as they navigate new challenges to their education and wellbeing (such as intersecting systemic injustices, problems of digital technology and ecological degradation). Her newest project, Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing, builds upon lessons learned in this book as well as previous projects and writings.
Deborah MacDonald is a new mother and the senior research associate and manager of Dr. Kate C. Tilleczek’s Young Lives Research Lab at York University, where she supports Professor Tilleczek’s vast body of work and partnerships all around the world. Investigating and learning with and from youth and their communities, she explores interrelated aspects of education, wellbeing, digital technology and planetary health with/by/for young people.
