YOUTH VOICES PUBLIC SPACES AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

This collection of original research explores ways that educators can create participatory spaces that foster civic engagement, critical thinking, and authentic literacy practices for adolescent youth in urban contexts. Casting youth as vital social actors, contributors shed light on the ways in which urban youth develop a clearer sense of agency within the structural forces of racial segregation and economic development that would otherwise marginalize and silence their voices and begin to see familiar spaces with reimagined possibilities for socially just educational practices.

Stuart Greene is Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame, USA.

Kevin Burke is Assistant Professor of English Education, University of Georgia, USA.

Maria McKenna is Assistant Professor of the Practice, University of Notre Dame, USA.