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Porfilio, Brad J.; Roychoudhury, Debangshu; Gardner, Lauren – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2013
The purpose of this essay is to ameliorate the virulent discursive and material attack against today's "border" youth launched by large-scale corporations and Western politicians. Specifically, the authors problematize the dominant tropes of youth being mindless, obedient objects who passively accept the stark social reality they…
Descriptors: Urban Culture, Popular Culture, African American Students, Social Justice
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de Vreede, Catherine; Warner, Alan; Pitter, Robert – Journal of Environmental Education, 2014
Peer education is an understudied yet valuable strategy for sustainability educators in shifting youth to take action for sustainability. This case study conceptualizes the change process in facilitating youth to take sustainability actions, and explores the benefits, dynamics, and challenges of peer education as a strategy in facilitating change.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Peer Teaching, Peer Relationship
Armstrong, Denise E.; McMahon, Brenda J. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2006
This book is motivated by the authors' experiences in working with students and their families in urban communities. They are particularly concerned about the urgent imperative to address the endemic educational and societal challenges that pervade the lives of urban students, particularly those who live in poverty, are of minority and immigrant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Urban Schools, Race