The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment by Gillen, Jay

The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807064542)

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The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment by Gillen, Jay

The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment

$17.95
The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment by Gillen, Jay

The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth knowledge exchanges are evolving into a strong economic and political foundation on which to build radical public education.

Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen describes the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP) as a youth-run cooperative enterprise in which young people direct their peers' and their own learning for a wage. BAP and similar enterprises are creating an educational network of empowered, employed students.

Gillen argues that this is a proactive political, economic, and educational structure that builds relationships among and between students and their communities. It's a structure that meets communal needs--material and social, economic and political--both now and in the future. Through the story of the Baltimore Algebra Project, readers will learn why youth employment is a priority, how to develop democratic norms and cultures, how to foster positive community roles for 20-30 year-olds, and how to implement educational accountability from below.

Author: Jay Gillen
ISBN-10: 0807064548
ISBN-13: 9780807064542
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2019
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/06/2019 pg. 1
By Jay Gillen
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Jay Gillen has taught and organized in and around Baltimore City Public Schools since 1987. In 1994, after a 2-year organizing campaign, he became teacher-director of the new Stadium Middle School, the first community-controlled public school in Baltimore in many years. Working with graduates of the Stadium School, Gillen developed the peer-tutoring Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP). He currently teaches in a juvenile detention center for young women and is helping to develop a peer-to-peer youth enterprise incubator. Gillen is the author of numerous articles and the book Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty.

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