{"id":3094,"date":"2015-11-17T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2024-02-08T01:06:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T01:06:32","slug":"professor-ben-kirshners-new-book-youth-activism-in-an-era-of-education-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/professor-ben-kirshners-new-book-youth-activism-in-an-era-of-education-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Ben Kirshner&#8217;s New Book: &#8220;Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BEN KIRSHNER\u00a0(NYU Press) ($27, paper).<\/p>\n<p>The book is part of NYU\u2019s Qualitative Studies in Psychology series. See below for a blurb. It is available for order from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=http-3A__nyupress.org_books_9781479898053_&amp;d=CwMGaQ&amp;c=8v77JlHZOYsReeOxyYXDU39VUUzHxyfBUh7fw_ZfBDA&amp;r=aNh5U7ppHUY74ro4Y8wXEYR-pWvAS11aTSQm4m5DqCA&amp;m=nNurHN1YJZ32nHKFApVJukr4zdNacAChjyksQw0KJv4&amp;s=XSNBI8DrhRtvn_n3qQTnJ-vdExoFJ8aVqkdnzwxFeA8&amp;e=\">NYU Press[nyupress.org]<\/a>\u00a0or other fine stores.<\/p>\n<p>This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters to protest high school closure. Young immigration rights activists persuade state legislators to pass a bill to make in-state tuition available to undocumented state residents. Students in an ESL class collect survey data revealing the prevalence of racism and xenophobia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These examples, based on ten years of research by youth development scholar Ben Kirshner, show young people of color building political power during an era of racial inequality, diminished educational opportunity, and an atrophied public square. The book\u2019s case studies analyze what these experiences mean for young people and why they are good for democracy. What is youth activism and how does it contribute to youth development? How might collective movements of young people expand educational opportunity and participatory democracy? The interdependent relationship between youths\u2019 political engagement, their personal development, and democratic renewal is the central focus of this book. Kirshner argues that youth and societal institutions are strengthened when young people, particularly those most disadvantaged by educational inequity, turn their critical gaze to education systems and participate in efforts to improve them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality\u2028 BEN KIRSHNER\u00a0(NYU Press) ($27, paper). The book is part of NYU\u2019s Qualitative Studies in Psychology series. See below for a blurb. It is available for order from\u00a0NYU Press[nyupress.org]\u00a0or other fine stores. This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[23,166,167],"tags":[157,169],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7HMh0-NU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}