MJCSL Call for Proposals: Centering Youth in Youth Participatory Action Research – Dec 1

Posted by Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning on November 7, 2023

The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) is pleased to invite proposals for a special section focused on Centering Youth in Youth Participatory Action Research (Volume 30, Issue 2).

This themed issue of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning centers Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) as a promising approach for building with and extending the interplay of youths’ voices, perspectives, and intersectional identities as youth enact contemporary movements toward justice in the on-going work of and quest for social justice (Marciano & Watson, 2021; Richards-Schuster et al., 2021; Watson & Petrone, 2020). Specifically, we welcome renderings within and across contexts of service learning that foreground such participatory approaches, referred to most commonly as YPAR but also in some cases as Youth Participatory Evaluation or Youth Participatory Research and Evaluation.

Call for Youth Contributions: 

In addition to the above call, we invite youth authors (ages 15-24) to share their experiences with YPAR in a range of genres (i.e., writing, poetry, photography, art, drama, and music) to be spotlighted on the MJCSL blog.  These submissions will not be part of the peer review process.

Read more and submit a proposal by December 1, 2023.