Students At-Promise: Developing Courageous Communities through Youth Empowerment and Culturally Relevant Teacher Education.
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This cross-case study centers on three university-sponsored youth-based programs illustrating social justice in practice. We examine how program practices support disenfranchised youth as empowered, active agents and how serving as mentors can alter undergraduate students’ relationships to marginalized communities (Author, et al., 2006), dismantling or at least profoundly disrupting carefully constructed borders of race, class, language, and culture. To interweave these studies, we address three questions: 1) how can colleges of education create experiences of care and community in which youth discover individual and communal power, 2) how does program participation help close cultural gaps between college mentors and participating youth, and 3) how do these programs educate those working with youth to create empowering, culturally relevant classroom experiences?
