[RSCT] Exploring the Roots of Youth Violence Curriculum Guide

[Eric (Rico) Gutstein]

Bob or ?? -- please post, as soon as you can, include attachment.

thanx Rico

CALL FOR CURRICULUM SUBMISSIONS

  Exploring the Roots of Youth Violence -

A Youth-Led Action 
Research<http://bl139w.blu139.mail.live.com/mail/RteFrame_15.1.3023.1012.html?pf=pf#_ftn1>[1] 
Curriculum Guide



The Chicago Freedom School, Project NIA and 
Teachers for Social Justice are partnering to 
develop a youth-led action research curriculum 
guide in order to contribute to the ongoing 
efforts by young people and their adult allies to 
analyze the root causes of youth violence and to 
create local solutions.



The question of "Why Did Derrion Die?" lends 
itself to city-wide youth-led action research 
projects.  What is currently missing however is a 
curriculum guide that can help youth workers and 
teachers to facilitate such projects.



We invite all interested individuals to help us 
to develop the guide by submitting readings, 
activities and curricula ideas focused on helping 
young people to understand and to critically 
analyze the root causes of youth violence.  All 
submissions are due by December 15th 2009.



Attached is a more detailed description of the project.



<http://bl139w.blu139.mail.live.com/mail/RteFrame_15.1.3023.1012.html?pf=pf#_ftnref1>[1] 
Action research is a systematic process of 
inquiry, which involves gathering information 
about an issue or problem, analyzing the 
findings, and developing practical plans for 
affecting positive change.  It is motivated by 
the desire to investigate in order to better 
understand the root causes of social and 
political injustices, such as poverty, racism, 
youth violence, etcŠ and to develop action plans 
to address inequities.  One distinguishing 
feature of action research is that all stages of 
the process, from designing the project to 
deciding how its findings will be used, are 
carried out in cooperation with those people who 
are themselves affected by the situation under 
investigation.  The goal of action research is to 
gather new information so that participants can 
plan actions that will address their concerns and 
enhance the quality of people's lives.
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