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"I See Myself as a Warrior": Cultivating Youth Activist Narratives through Projects of Social Justice

Butler, Tamara T.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1402068574

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
Informed by a critical multicultural framework, this research explores how youth raise awareness, critique inequitable structures, and engage in an array of social justice work. Two research major questions that guide this project are as follows: How do students create youth activist narratives using social justice experiences? What do students' reflections about the narrative writing process reveal about why they engage in social justice work? In order to answer these questions, I used critical narrative inquiry as I entered a ninth-grade World Humanities classroom at Justice High School for a ten-month qualitative study. In the Humanities classroom, I focused on how students developed social justice projects on a variety of contemporary injustices (e.g., human sex trafficking, domestic violence, discrimination against LGBTQI youth, gentrification) and explored how youth came to understand, speak, and write about social inequities and injustices as well as how they position themselves as advocates, allies, and/or activists. Through thematic analysis of their Capstone Project, I analyzed how four girls used stories to engage in socially just activist practices. The narratives that emerged from this work can offer insight into how K-20 classrooms can foster partnerships that generate transformative, activist curricular engagements. I propose that major implications of this dissertation research will ultimately impact theoretical, methodological, and praxis-oriented understandings of teaching, learning, and sustaining socially just partnerships.
Valerie Kinloch, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Beverly Moss, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Timothy San Pedro, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
259 p.
Multicultural Education; Secondary Education
Social Justice; youth activism; activism; community engagements; critical multiculturalism; critical narrative inquiry

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  • Butler, T. T. (2014). "I See Myself as a Warrior": Cultivating Youth Activist Narratives through Projects of Social Justice [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1402068574

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Butler, Tamara. "I See Myself as a Warrior": Cultivating Youth Activist Narratives through Projects of Social Justice. 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1402068574.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Butler, Tamara. ""I See Myself as a Warrior": Cultivating Youth Activist Narratives through Projects of Social Justice." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1402068574

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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