Teaching Beyond the Curriculum
Abstract
This is a critical-phenomenological interview-based study in which young people who participated in Social Justice Youth Arts (SJYA) programs during their teenage years engaged in a series of semi-structured interviews focused on recollecting their lived experiences in those programs and the years since. These interviews investigate the ways in which the principles of Healing-Centered Engagement (Ginwright, 2018) were present within these young people’s experiences of those programs, as well as the extent to which those experiences may have encouraged or cultivated a lived praxis of the principles of the contemporary abolitionist movement (Kaba, 2021; Kaepernick, 2021). This study describes how these young people’s engagement with SJYA programming encouraged their process of identity formation as artists and activists, and how the durability and evolution of those self-identifications manifested in their broader social and behavioral context over time.
Laurel is an arts education & social justice consultant based in LA, where she is the Director of Youth Programming for Everyday Arts and teaches at Loyola Marymount University. Laurel previously served as Associate Director of UCLA’s Visual and Performing Arts Education program as well as Arts Education & Social Emotional Learning Specialist for the LA County Office of Education. She has presented at the Allied Media Conference, the Create Justice conference and the National Convening for Teens in the Arts, and is completing her doctorate in Social Justice Leadership for Educational Practice.
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Thursday 16th November, 2023