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Ali, Arshad Imitaz – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2016
In the 14 years since the 9/11 events, this nation as a whole, and New York City in particular, has escalated its state-sanctioned surveillance in the lives and activities of Muslims in the United States. This qualitative study examines the ramifications of police infiltration and monitoring of Muslim student and community-based organizations.…
Descriptors: Arabs, Muslims, Secondary School Students, College Students
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Krueger-Henney, Patricia – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2013
Through combining the methodology of portraiture with the epistemological stance of youth participatory action research, this article positions Latino/a youth as experts with their encounters with the school-to-prison pipeline. This article examines what it's like to live within the tight and probational spaces of criminal justice-based school…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Urban Youth, Participatory Research
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Tuck, Eve – High School Journal, 2012
This article discusses competing perspectives on the value of the General Educational Development (GED) credential. Although scholars and journalists debate the worth of the credential, urban youth continue to pursue the GED, especially as proxy for inadequate schooling. Using qualitative data from a participatory action research project, the…
Descriptors: Credentials, Educational Development, Action Research, Educational Researchers
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Ruglis, Jessica – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
This article will put forth an introductory argument and evidence for school non-completion as a form of biopower, and school dropout to be considered a form of biopolitical youth resistance in the United States (US). Beginning with a brief overview of the empirical relationship of education to health and current graduation rates in the United…
Descriptors: Action Research, Graduation Rate, Dropouts, Focus Groups
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Ares, Nancy – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2010
O'Connor and Penuel (2010) argue that viewing research in education as a human science requires explicit attention to social, cultural, historical, and institutional dimensions of human activity, to the agency of participants in learning research, and to the importance of incorporating "emic" perspectives that shift the voice of the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Methodology, Educational Practices, Educational Change
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Litke, Erica – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Research on after-school programs has traditionally focused on those programs serving students in younger grades but found positive correlations between student participation in enriching after-school activities and school engagement. For older students, particularly teenagers, there tends to be lower participation. Research…
Descriptors: Student Participation, After School Programs, High School Students, Program Improvement