Youth Research Circles • The Root Of Our Youth (ROOY)

Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 PM PST for High School Credit

 “A goal of critical pedagogy is to help students have more power after the pedagogical encounter than they did before.” -Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade

“Creation of spaces for youth to participate fully in the critical research enterprise promoted the praxis that Freire and other theorists advocate. That is, youth-initiated research that begins with authentic inquiry into issues within the community and neighborhood schools and that brings together students, teachers, university researchers, and community workers to develop questions, collect data, and produce texts enables the students to oppose oppressive structures while also developing academic competencies and the ability to manipulate language and tools of power—namely, academic discourse and the academic research process.” -Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade