Youth Education and Wellbeing in the Americas

<p>This book explores ways in which education supports or negates the wellbeing and rights of young people in or from the Americas. It shows how young people diagnose problems and propose important new directions for education. A collective chronicle from researchers working alongside young people in Chile Dominican Republic Guatemala Honduras Trinidad and Tobago Jamaica and the Caribbean and Latin American diaspora in Canada the authors embrace the work in terms of justice: intergenerational racial cultural and ecological with/by/for various groups of young people.</p><p>This book delves into the wide gap between the expressed rights of young people in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the ways in which education operates. In so doing it examines the entrenched colonial legacies which persist including systemic racism flabby curriculum hyper-surveillance and broken promises for care and human relationships needed to support youth. The resourceful young people shown here – who identify as Latin American Black Indigenous and/or diasporic – are diagnosing and negotiating these injustices in revolutionary moves for education. Teachers parents communities and youth themselves could learn from these critical transformative and anticolonial youthful pedagogies for being with education.</p><p>This book will appeal to scholars students policymakers and practitioners in the areas of youth studies education social justice sociology human rights wellbeing and social work.</p>