Many studies have noted the important role family socioeconomic status (SES) plays in students' out-of-school learning. However, very little is known about the relationship between students' SES and citizenship education in out-of-school contexts. To address this research gap, this study conducted an out-of-school citizenship education survey…

Notions of place-making assume that individuals and groups of people have legitimate 'rights to the city.' This paper unsettles these notions to incorporate the politically and legally tenuous relationships African-American and Immigrant youth have to their cities. We describe a community-based digital STEAM curriculum called Mobile City Science…

Breaking down the social, political, and cultural processes through which race, class, and gender worldviews are established, ideological literacies help students look closely at the intricate, contradictory meanings in texts. The purpose of developing ideological literacies in urban youth is so they become more socially conscious of the…

This article reflects on outcomes of a playmaking project conducted with 14-20-year-old urban students in the USA. The playmaking experience was part of a larger research project designed to facilitate students' understandings of the ways in which their own experiences of discrimination are reflected in pervasive inequity at the societal level,…