Hot Off the Press – Youth, Education and Wellbeing in the Americas

Dahdaleh Institute faculty fellow Kate Tilleczek and Deborah MacDonald has recently published the book, Youth, Education and Wellbeing in the Americas. 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.

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Henry Parada

1. The crucible of education with/by/for youth in the Americas
Kate Tilleczek

2. Youth and the right to education in the Dominican Republic
Sara Guilamo Jimenez and Ana Luisa Reyes

3. The right to education and wellbeing for youth in Guatemala
Belia Aydée Villeda Erazo

4. Youth, education & wellbeing in Honduras: A sociological analysis
María Victoria Ponce Mendoza and Anna Sarony Barahona Rivera

5. Formal education and lived experiences of boys on the margins in Trinidad and Tobago: insights from Institutional Ethnography
Godfrey St. Bernard, Shivana Chankar and Safia King

6. Examining the educational rights of Black Caribbean diasporic youth in Toronto, Canada
Giselle Thompson and Tka Pinnock

7. Black youth disengaging from Ontario’s educational system: Grounded Theory of their educational experiences
Travonne Edwards and Henry Parada

8. Latin American youth and belonging at school in Ontario, Canada
Veronica Escobar Olivo, Henry Parada and Fabiola Limón Bravo

9. Wekimün School: Education with/by/for Indigenous youth and communities in Chile
Pablo Aránguiz Mesias, Kate Tilleczek and Deborah MacDonald

10. Youthful pedagogies for just transitions to wellbeing with/in complex worlds
Pablo Aránguiz Mesias, Kate Tilleczek and Deborah MacDonald

11. Youth as educational revolutionaries: dispatches with/in the Americas
Kate Tilleczek

Tilleczek, K. & MacDonald, D. (2022). Youth, Education and Wellbeing in the Americas. Routledge.

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