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On Being And Becoming: An Exploration Of Young People’S Experiences With Status And Power, Keri L. Dejong
On Being And Becoming: An Exploration Of Young People’S Experiences With Status And Power, Keri L. Dejong
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The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand how young people in a high school and a community-based setting experience status and power related to age. This study assumes that discourses of childhood are constructed with a socio-political purpose. Literature from Critical Youth Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Feminist Theory, and Social Justice Education provide the theoretical and conceptual foundations. This research expands social justice education literature to include adultism/youth oppression as a social justice issue, centering the voices and experiences of those targeted by youth oppression. Research questions explored 1) what information young people encounter on a daily basis that …