Streetwork: Exploring & Transforming Cities with Children & Youth

Streetwork: Exploring & Transforming Cities with Children & Youth is a Social Science tutorial taught by Myrna Breitbart.

Course Description
How do young people make sense of their environments and how do environments shape their lives? What assumptions about youth are reflected in the design and management of urban space? How can innovative forms of streetwork that utilize a variety of media and creative methods enable young people to explore their environments while developing their capacities as critical and engaged learners and actors? This course considers how power and privilege structure the spatial and social environments in which young people live and learn. We also utilize the literatures and participative methodologies of urban studies and critical pedagogy to explore the theory and practice of engaging young people in the acquisition of knowledge about their environments and in efforts to effect change. Students will be asked to complete a variety of written assignments as well as a collaborative and/or individual project. Some work with a local youth organization may be arranged for a subset of the class.

Learning Goals

 * Multi-Cultural
 * Project-based
 * Reading
 * Writing