The Michigan Journal of Commmunity Service Learning {MJCSL), published by the Ginsberg Center, is pleased to invite proposals for a special section focused on Centering Youth in Youth Participatory Action Research (Volume 30, Issue 2). This special section is guest edited by
- Joanne Marciano, Ed.D., Assistant Professor of English Education, Michigan State University
- Katie Richards-Schuster, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Strategic Initiatives and Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Vaughn Watson, Ed.D. Associate Professor of Secondary English Education, Michigan State University
This themed issue of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning centers Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) as a promising approach for building with and extending the interplay of youths’ voices, perspectives, and intersectional identities as youth enact contemporary movements toward justice in the on-going work of and quest for social justice (Marciano & Watson, 2021; Richards-Schuster et al., 2021; Watson & Petrone, 2020). Specifically, we welcome renderings within and across contexts of service learning that foreground such participatory approaches, referred to most commonly as YPAR but also in some cases as Youth Participatory Evaluation or Youth Participatory Research and Evaluation.
Call for Youth Contributions:
In addition to the above call, we invite youth authors (ages 15-24) to share their experiences with YPAR in a range of genres (i.e., writing, poetry, photography, art, drama, and music) to be spotlighted on the MJCSL blog. These submissions will not be part of the peer review process.
Proposals due December 1, 2023.
Learn more and submit proposals here