Critical Youth Participatory Action Research

We are living in a “moment”, so to speak. As young adults, the aggressive nature of gendered, racialized, and capitalist violence and dispossession appears in our everyday interactions, and manifests in our generation’s increased disenfranchisement from p

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Youth as/in Crisis Young People, Public Policy, and the Politics of Learning

Edited by Sara Carpenter University of Alberta, Canada and Shahrzad Mojab University of Toronto, Canada

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgementsvii 1. Youth, Policy, and Research Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab

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Part One: Theorizing Young People 2. “Youth” as Theory, Method, and Praxis Genevieve Ritchie 3. Critical Youth Participatory Action Research: Ideology, Consciousness, and Praxis Paula V. Elias

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Part Two: Youth, Public Policy, and Programs 4. Alternative Futures for Work-Related and Vocational Education: Stratification and Entrepreneurialism Kiran Mirchandani and Meaghan Brugha

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5. The “Youth” Crisis in Nova Scotia: An Examination of Masked Relations65 Stephanie MacKinnon 6. The Ontario Youth Outreach Worker Program as Racialized Spatial Praxis Ahmed Ahmed and Sara Carpenter

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7. Difference Is: Sexual and Gender Minority Youth and Young Adults and the Challenges to Be and Belong in Canada André P. Grace

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Part Three: Youth and the Politics of Learning 8. Where Do I Begin? Educational Citizenship and Sexual Minority International Students in Ontario Trevor Corkum

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9. “Isn’t the Right to an Education a Human Right?” Experiences of Precarious Immigration Status Youth Navigating Post-Secondary Education127 Tanya Aberman and Philip Ackerman with members of the FCJ Refugee Centre’s Youth Network v

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10. Exploring Transitions of Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in Canadian Urban Contexts Lance T. McCready and David A. Pereira

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11. The Politics of Participation: The Progressive Potential of Young Adults’ Formal Political Engagement Chloe Shantz-Hilkes

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12. Youth, Crisis, and Learning: The Experiences of Ontarian Young Adults in a Leadership Development Program Scott Zoltok

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About the Authors

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Index201

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to thank the research participants and contributors for their diligence, perseverance, and insight in bringing this collection to publication. Further, we thank Jamie Lynn Magnusson, Helen Colley, Tara Silver, Alex Means, and June Larkin for their collaboration and contributions to our learning. Many of these chapters were presented in draft form at the 201