Critically Researching Youth addresses the unique possibilities and contexts involved in deepening a discourse around youth. Authors address both social theoretical and methodological approaches as they delve into a contemporary discipline, which supports research with ¿ not on ¿ young adults. This volume is a refreshing change in the literature on qualitative youth, embodying the understanding of what it means to be a young woman or man. It dismisses any consideration to pathologize youth, instead addressing what society can understand and how we can act in order to support and promote them.

Shirley R. Steinberg is Research Professor of Youth Studies at the University of Calgary and the Director of the Institute of Youth and Community Research at the University of the West of Scotland. She is a prolific author and international speaker, and was recently awarded lifetime achievement awards for Social Justice from Chapman University and from the International Conference on Critical Media Literacy.
Awad Ibrahim is Professor of Education at the University of Ottawa. He is a curriculum theorist with special interest in cultural studies, Hip Hop, youth, Black popular culture, social foundations (philosophy, history, and sociology of education), social justice and community service learning, diasporic and continental African identities, ethnography, and applied linguistics. He has researched and published widely in these areas.

Contents: Awad Ibrahim: Preface - Shirley R. Steinberg: Contextualizing Corporate Kids: Kinderculture as Cultural Pedagogy - Michael B. MacDonald: Cipher5 as Method: Aesthetic Education, Critical Youth Studies Research, and Emancipation - Patricia Krueger-Henney: Trapped Inside a Poisoned Maze; Mapping Young People's Geographies of Disposability in Neoliberal Times of School Disinvestment - Carl E. James: Resisting Marginalization: Students' Conversations About Life in University - Tony Kruger/Jo Williams/Marcelle Cacciattolo: The Standpoint Project: Practitioner Research and Action When Working With Young People From Low-Income Families - Haidee Smith Lefebvre/Awad Ibrahim: Kinship Narratives: Beat Nation, Indigenous Peoples (Hip Hop), and the Politics of Unmasking Our Ignorance - John M. Richardson: «Too Much Drama»: The Effect of Smartphones on Teenagers' Live Theater Experience - Awad Ibrahim/Adriana Alfano: Macklemore: Strong Poetry, Hip Hop Courage, and the Ethics of the Appointment - Handel Kashope Wright/Maryam Nabavi: Immigrant Canadian New Youth: Expressing and Exploring Youth Identities in a Multicultural Context - Mary Frances Agnello: Hispanic Youth Leadership in Texas: Creating a Mexican American College-Going Culture in West Texas - Elizabeth Quintero: Conocimiento: Mixtec Youths sin fronteras - George J. Sefa Dei: The Schooling of African Youth in Ontario Schools: What Have Indigenous African Proverbs Got to Do With It? - Mark Vicars/Tarquam McKenna: Making Sense of Non/Sense: Queer Youth and Educational Leadership - Audrey Hudson/Emmanuel Tabi: Where We @? Blackness, Indigeneity, and Hip Hop's Expression of Creative Resistance - Paul R. Carr/Gina Thésée: Interracial Conscientization Through Epistemological Re-Construction: Developing Autobiographical Accounts of the Meaning of Being Black and White Together.