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ERIC Number: EJ998302
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-May
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1389-2843
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Architects, Captains, and Dreamers: Creating Advisor Roles that Foster Youth-Adult Partnerships
Mitra, Dana; Lewis, Tiffanie; Sanders, Felicia
Journal of Educational Change, v14 n2 p177-201 May 2013
While research has documented the many ways in which student voice can enable educational change, the process of how adults can help to enable student voice is less clear. This article examines how adults new to working as advisors of student voice initiatives begin to develop partnerships with young people. Using a Youth-Adult Partnership continuum as a framework, three cases represent a range of beliefs of student leadership. Using the archetypes of Captain, Dreamer, and Architect, the cases indicate how the adults began their work with youth with adult-centered, a student-centered, and an equilibrium approach, respectively. While the article highlights that adults must learn how to scaffold youth participation to help them to develop the leadership skills necessary to share in the work of the partnership, little training and materials exist for adults to learn how to scaffold learning. Part of this training includes the willingness for adults to recognize that they themselves need to change as well in order to facilitate youth leadership.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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