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Bertrand, Melanie; Durand, E. Sybil; Gonzalez, Taucia – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2017
This article seeks to illuminate the complexity of youth participatory action research (YPAR) through the use of two concepts: (1) transformative agency, a collective initiative to address conflicts and contradictions in activity systems, and (2) role re-mediation, the disruption of power relations. We demonstrate that these concepts, in…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Low Achievement, Transformative Learning
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Bertrand, Melanie; Perez, Wendy Y.; Rogers, John – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Policy insiders across party lines increasingly acknowledge educational "gaps," yet they talk about this inequity in very different ways. Though some critique disparities through a structural lens, others use deficit discourse, blaming families of color and working-class families for educational outcomes. This study examines how state…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Bias, Racial Bias, Educational Policy