Youth Culture and Arts Education

Harvard HGSE

There is widespread agreement in education that schools must engage young peoples’ cultural experiences as resources for learning and fulfilling the promise of education in a pluralistic democracy. School leaders, policymakers, and researchers understand that diverse learners come to school with funds of knowledge that differ from the cultural logics upon which schools are founded—and view youth culture as a strategy for supporting greater equity in education. Arts education has a vital, if…