Abstract
The theme of Issue 53 of the Bank Street Occasional Paper Series, Speculative Youth Participatory Action Research: Narratives of Imaginative Social Dreaming, arose from our perception that many youths and teachers assumed that youth participatory action research (YPAR) was unattainable to them. We argue that, to the contrary, many have been living different forms of YPAR for years.
Author Biography
Ricardo Martinez
Ricardo Martinez is an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University,
where he works to create ontological playgrounds of liberation—spaces where
youth, teachers, community members, and faculty can empower themselves.
His interdisciplinary research is situated in critical youth studies and becomes
whatever the youth want and need the research to be. As a poet, Ricardo
is passionate about exploring poetry as a qualitative method and works to
highlight poetry as a praxis to enhance mathematical teaching and learning.
Ezequiel Aleman
Ezequiel Aleman is a director at Universidad Tecnológica in Uruguay and an
assistant professor in the Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
where he leads a college access program for rural youth. His research explores
the participatory design of learning experiences that serve as spaces for youth
to make sense of their lived experiences in relation to digital technologies and
their place-based relationships.
Recommended Citation
Martinez, R.,
&
Aleman, E.
(2025).
Speculative youth participatory action research: narratives of imaginative social dreaming.
Occasional Paper Series,
(53).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58295/2375-3668.1567
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