{"id":12652,"date":"2017-10-31T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=12652"},"modified":"2017-11-27T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T17:55:23","slug":"writing-our-civic-futures-november-reimagining-civic-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/writing-our-civic-futures-november-reimagining-civic-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Our Civic Futures (November): Reimagining Civic Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month we kicked off Writing Our Civic Futures<\/a>, a collaboration of the National Writing Project<\/a> and Marginal Syllabus<\/a> that supports conversations about civic engagement and learning over the course of the 2017-18 academic year. Refer to the syllabus<\/a> for information on all the annotatable readings, which will go \u201clive\u201d on the first Monday of each month, along with related events hosted by CLTV and others.<\/p>\n

This Month\u2019s Topic: Reimagining Civic Participation<\/h4>\n

For November\u2019s reading, we are focusing on reimagined definitions of civic education and engagement that take systemic inequality into account and foreground youth voice and experience.<\/p>\n

We invite you to read \u201cCivic Participation Reimagined: Youth Interrogation and Innovation in the Multimodal Public Sphere<\/a><\/strong>\u201d by Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia and annotate the text with your own thoughts and reactions. This chapter was originally published in Vol 41, Issue 1, 2017 of American Educational Research Association (AERA)\u2019s Review of Research in Education<\/em> and is used with permission from Sage Publishing.<\/p>\n

In their chapter, Mirra and Garcia explore ideologies that inform traditional forms of civic engagement and education in the U.S. and offer updated visions that take into account ongoing struggles for social justice and the impact of digital media and participatory culture on public and political life. The authors also look to youth participatory action research (YPAR) as a model for supporting youth civic leaders.<\/p>\n

Access the full text<\/a> via Educator Innovator. Using this link will enable you to view annotations (yellow highlights indicate annotations; the annotation tool displays along right side of your browser) others have added to the text.<\/p>\n

Related CLTV Episode: Re-Imagining Youth Civic Engagement<\/h4>\n