Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion

Children, Youth and Environments Vol. 18 No. 2 (2008) ISSN: 1546-2250 Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion Cammarota, Julio and Fine, Michelle (2008). New York: Routledge; 248 pages. $34.95. ISBN 0415956161. This book discusses how the methods of Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) can be applied in different settings to put tools for education that promotes social justice in young people’s hands. In their introduction, the editors note that when youth develop a critical awareness of injustice, they can respond in three ways: by self-defeating resistance, such as dropping out of schools or job markets that fail to meet their needs; by conforming with the existing…