Youth, Education and Wellbeing in the Americas
- 256 pages
- English
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Youth, Education and Wellbeing in the Americas
About this book
This book explores ways in which education supports or negates the wellbeing and rights of young people in or from the Americas. It shows how young people diagnose problems and propose important new directions for education. A collective chronicle from researchers working alongside young people in Chile, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and the Caribbean and Latin American diaspora in Canada, the authors embrace the work in terms of justice: intergenerational, racial, cultural and ecological with/by/for various groups of young people.
This book delves into the wide gap between the expressed rights of young people in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the ways in which education operates. In so doing, it examines the entrenched colonial legacies which persist, including systemic racism, flabby curriculum, hyper-surveillance and broken promises for care and human relationships needed to support youth. The resourceful young people shown here – who identify as Latin American, Black, Indigenous and/or diasporic – are diagnosing and negotiating these injustices in revolutionary moves for education. Teachers, parents, communities and youth themselves could learn from these critical, transformative and anticolonial youthful pedagogies for being with education.
This book will appeal to scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners in the areas of youth studies, education, social justice, sociology, human rights, wellbeing and social work.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The crucible of education with/by/for youth in the Americas
- 2 Youth and the right to education in the Dominican Republic
- 3 The right to education and wellbeing for youth in Guatemala
- 4 Youth, education, and wellbeing in Honduras: a sociological analysis
- 5 Formal education and lived experiences of boys on the margins in Trinidad and Tobago: insights from institutional ethnography
- 6 Examining the educational rights of Black Caribbean diasporic youth in Toronto, Canada
- 7 Black youth disengaging from Ontario’s educational system: grounded theory of their educational experiences
- 8 Latin American youth and belonging at school in Ontario, Canada
- 9 Wekimün school: education with/by/for Indigenous youth and communities in Chile
- 10 Youthful pedagogies for just transitions to wellbeing with/in complex worlds
- 11 Youth as educational revolutionaries: dispatches with/in the Americas
- Index