Education and Resistance in Community-based Youth Organizations

Harvard HGSE

The purpose of the course is to provide students the opportunity to engage with and discuss the historical, ideological, and contemporary issues surrounding community-based programs engaging youth. Drawing on theoretical and empirical literature and current events, students will think critically about how political and social context shapes community-based education. Students will examine how educational policy and the confluence of power, race, class, gender, and broader systems of…