SXSW EDU 2025
Whose Voice? Our Voice! Youth Participatory Action Research
Description:
The Whose Voice? Our Voice! session is a hands-on YPAR session for youth to explore becoming researchers and policy makers working to solve issues that affect them. Using an arts-based Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) methodology, participants will discuss, draw, and imagine a better world together. The session culminates with a "flash" policy roundtable where the youth researchers share their proposed initiatives.
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Takeaways
- Youth learn key elements of Arts Based Youth Participatory Action Research methodologies such as game design, survey, interview/focus group design.
- Youth work in small groups to identify systemic issues of social justice that affect them in school, from detentions to suspensions to lack of funding
- Youth experience being leaders, engaging in civic participation for social justice, aimed at making lasting change at the personal and policy levels.
Speakers
- MARTIN URBACH, Founder & Director of Artivist Education, The Circle Keepers
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Martin Urbach, Founder & Director of Artivist Education, Circle Keepers
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