Ben Kirshner, PhD, is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences听in the School of Education at the University of Colorado听Boulder. He also serves as Faculty Director of听, whose mission is to work collaboratively with students, staff, faculty, and community groups to address complex public challenges.听
On June 15th, Dr. Kirshner released a book titled, (NYU Press, 2015). Readers are given insight into the political power today鈥檚 youth have come to acquire in an era of racial inequality, diminished educational opportunity and an atrophied public square. This is revealed through several examples, including one in which local youth organizers negotiate new school discipline policies to end the 鈥渟chool-to-jail鈥� track, discussed further in听听by Kirshner and Ricardo Martinez.
These examples, based on ten years of youth development research, explore how young people from marginalized communities interpret their sociopolitical context, learn to exercise collective political agency, and how activism contributes to youth development.
Shawn A. Ginwright of San Francisco State University describes this study as 鈥渁 powerfully rich analysis of youth activism, and youth participatory research across a variety of settings.鈥�
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