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Publications on Student Activism
These are publications that offer resources, research, and information that supports student organizing for school change.
Hope for Schools thru Student Action - Stories of Success - K. Kunst (2004). Stories collected from across the Internet about the effects and impacts of student activism for school change. Includes more than a dozen organizations from across the U.S.
Co/Motion: A Guide to Youth-Lead Social Change - L. Dingerson & S.H. Hay. (1998). This guide is a comprehensive resource aimed directly at young people attempting to make a difference in their schools, communities and in society at large.
Occasional Paper No. 01: An Emerging Model for Working with Youth: Community Organizing + Youth Development = Youth Organizing. - Prepared by the training and support organization LISTEN, Inc., this paper explores the influences of community organizing and youth development on youth organizing; describes a continuum that identifies different levels and models of youth engagement; and outlines the fundamentals of youth organizing: its processes, guiding principles, practices and impacts.
Occasional Paper No. 02: Youth and Community Organizing Today. - This paper, prepared by journalist Daniel HoSang, traces the history of youth involvement in 20th- and 21st-century social change efforts and examines some of the major organizations, themes and trends in this burgeoning, but nascent field. The paper explores characteristics common to youth organizing and three primary issue areas around which youth organizing efforts are focused: public school reform, criminal justice, and environmental justice.
Occasional Paper No. 03: Youth Organizing: Expanding Possibilities for Youth Development. - Scholar-activist Shawn Ginwright discusses the nexus of youth development and youth organizing, and the promise of youth organizing in yielding both individual transformations and social change. The paper examines how processes unique to youth organizing have pushed and broadened youth development practices to include a deeper analysis of issues such as inequality and discrimination and their impact on the development of young people and their communities.
Occasional Paper No. 04: Annotated Bibliography on Youth Organizing. - Drawing upon the fields of youth development, community organizing and civic engagement, Social Policy Research Associates compiled this compendium to centralize information about the existing resources from and for the field of youth organizing. This appendix presents a digest of research and reports, reflections from the field, and youth organizing curricula and toolkits.
Pedagogy Of The Oppressed. - Freire, P. (1970). New York: Continuum. This important book offers a theoretical deconstruction of schools, offering a critical analysis of educational practices from a historical social justice perspective. The author is the widely-respected forefather of critical pedagogy.
More Than Service: Philadelphia Students Join a Union to Improve Their Schools. - by What Kids Can Do (2002). Provides details about the formation and operation of one of the first student-led activist organizations in the US focusing on improving education.
Taking Democracy In Hand: Youth Action For Educational Change in the San Francisco Bay Area - by What Kids Can Do (2002). This report highlights the accomplishments and growing wisdom of ten Bay Area youth organizing groups. It also sketches how their work builds, step by step, capital and capacity among participants; why youth-adult partnerships are important; where dots are being connected (between issues, between strategies, across races) and where they need connection (between youth and adult school reformers).
Students Push for Equity in School Funding - by What Kids Can Do (2003). Alabama students fight to save their small school from consolidation, Ohio students rally at their state’s capitol, and a government class in Poughkeepsie, NY throws itself into that district’s school budget deliberations.
Young Organizers Mobilize to Change Their World, Starting with School - by What Kids Can Do (2003). T his web-based collection features two experienced youth organizing groups working to improve their schools, an interview with a veteran youth organizer, an annotated directory, and new research on the power of youth organizing.
Youth Action for Educational Change - by American Youth Policy Forum (2002). Details about a Hill briefing in Washington, DC, on student activism for school change.
HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS
We’re Not Grinning Anymore - (1970). An essay exploring the oppressive nature of schooling.
The Student Movement: Where Do You Stand? - by Barry McGhan (1971). An exploration of different adult perceptions of student activism.
Students for a Democratic Society - (1959-1973). The foremost student activist group of the 1960s, often cited as the motivator of the "hippy" movement. OTHER MEDIA Student Voices 2002 - WGBH 89.7 went behind the scenes with Boston YWCA's Youth Voice Collaborative to produce "Classroom Voices: Teen and Teacher Radio Diaries." The series explores the first-hand experiences of Boston public school students and teachers in the midst of education reform. The following radio diaries are from 2002. Student Power!: Organizing For School Reform - This In the Mix program chronicles the struggles and accomplishments of several student-run organizations who are turning their passion into power...and making school reform happen in their communities.
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