EDUCATION AND RESISTANCE IN COMMUNITY-BASED SPACES
Engage with and discuss the historical, ideological, and contemporary issues surrounding community-based spaces and programs serving youth. Topics will include: grassroots organizing and activism, pedagogies of the home, academic outcomes and access to higher education, full-service community-schools/school-community partnerships, social identity, funding and philanthropy, neoliberalism and education privatization, and after school and out-of-school time education. Examine the social and political context of community-based educational efforts in order to understand how they can be nurturing spaces of resistance for youth, as well as spaces of conflict and social reproduction.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the political and social context of community-based spaces engaging youth Audience: Graduate 2. Disrupt and redefine static notions of “community,” “education,” and “educator” Audience: Graduate 3. Understand the heterogeneity of community-based spaces engaging youth Audience: Graduate 4. Examine the relationships of power undergirding community-based spaces Audience: Graduate 5. Explore the role, challenges, and experiences of community-based leaders, educators, and youth workers Audience: Graduate 6. Explore the experiences of diverse youth participants in community-based programs Audience: Graduate 7. Understand the relationship between community-based educational spaces and traditional school contexts Audience: Graduate 8. Engage in critical dialogue about the role of "youth work" and community-based spaces in broader education discourse and reform Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the political and social context of community-based spaces engaging youth Audience: Graduate 2. Disrupt and redefine static notions of “community,” “education,” and “educator” Audience: Graduate 3. Understand the heterogeneity of community-based spaces engaging youth Audience: Graduate 4. Examine the relationships of power undergirding community-based spaces Audience: Graduate 5. Explore the role, challenges, and experiences of community-based leaders, educators, and youth workers Audience: Graduate 6. Explore the experiences of diverse youth participants in community-based programs Audience: Graduate 7. Understand the relationship between community-based educational spaces and traditional school contexts Audience: Graduate 8. Engage in critical dialogue about the role of "youth work" and community-based spaces in broader education discourse and reform Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027