Youth Inquiry as Resistance
摘要
Drawing from anticolonial scholarship, critical race theory, and critical youth studies—this paper positions youth inquiry as a form of resistance to schooling. Youth resistance communities represent learning contexts that insist on the immediacy of challenging the pain of normative schooling through Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR). Our driving research questions were: (1) What is the capacity of inquiry to operate as a form of resistance? and (2) How does youth inquiry disrupt normative schooling? To answer these questions we pulled from ethnographic projects with youth conducting YPAR across multiple sites. Findings illustrate how youth inquiry operated as resistance to the violence of invisibility, resistance to the violence of standards/standardization, and resistance to the violence of youth-adult power dynamics.