Partnering for Transformation in Schools and Beyond
Community-Engaged Learning in Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights Education
Published on 24. April 2026
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-8077-8354-2 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive book offers both theoretical and practical guidance for understanding and enacting community-engaged learning through peace, social justice, and human rights education.
With a focus on new directions in peace, social justice, and human rights education, this book examines how local communities engage in collaboration with scholars and practitioners to advance these educational approaches and movements. Chapters from educators, artists, researchers, students, and community-based organizations from across the globe highlight the challenges and possibilities of implementing community-engaged praxis in diverse sites and contexts. The authors conceptualize community-engaged partnerships in many ways, including collaborative participation in social movements, school programs, extracurricular clubs, research projects, arts initiatives, youth development opportunities, higher educational initiatives, and civic actions. The volume provides a broad array of community-based exemplars to illustrate the varied ways in which peace and human rights education can positively transform communities locally and globally.
Book Features:
Examines how diverse educational spaces are being reimagined through community-engaged partnerships and initiatives, with the goal of creating a more equitable and socially just world.
Offers a range of writing, including empirical case studies, research projects, reflective essays, theoretical treatises, and methodological insights.
Disrupts top-down initiatives by centering local knowledges in the acts of transformation and liberation.
Explores the intersections of critical peace education, social justice education, and human rights education to provide a bridge for those working at the nexus of these fields.
All three editors are actively engaged in professional development with educators, universities, and K-12 schools, as well as community-based organizations.
With a focus on new directions in peace, social justice, and human rights education, this book examines how local communities engage in collaboration with scholars and practitioners to advance these educational approaches and movements. Chapters from educators, artists, researchers, students, and community-based organizations from across the globe highlight the challenges and possibilities of implementing community-engaged praxis in diverse sites and contexts. The authors conceptualize community-engaged partnerships in many ways, including collaborative participation in social movements, school programs, extracurricular clubs, research projects, arts initiatives, youth development opportunities, higher educational initiatives, and civic actions. The volume provides a broad array of community-based exemplars to illustrate the varied ways in which peace and human rights education can positively transform communities locally and globally.
Book Features:
Examines how diverse educational spaces are being reimagined through community-engaged partnerships and initiatives, with the goal of creating a more equitable and socially just world.
Offers a range of writing, including empirical case studies, research projects, reflective essays, theoretical treatises, and methodological insights.
Disrupts top-down initiatives by centering local knowledges in the acts of transformation and liberation.
Explores the intersections of critical peace education, social justice education, and human rights education to provide a bridge for those working at the nexus of these fields.
All three editors are actively engaged in professional development with educators, universities, and K-12 schools, as well as community-based organizations.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-8354-2 (9780807783542)
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Persons
Sandra Sirota is assistant professor in residence of experiential global learning and human rights and director of the Human Rights Close to Home program at the University of Connecticut.
Amy Argenal is an assistant teaching professor of sociology in community-engaged learning and research at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Maria Hantzopoulos is professor of education at Vassar College, coordinator of Adolescent Education, and director of the International Studies program.
Amy Argenal is an assistant teaching professor of sociology in community-engaged learning and research at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Maria Hantzopoulos is professor of education at Vassar College, coordinator of Adolescent Education, and director of the International Studies program.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments ?vii
Introduction: Centering Community-Engaged Praxis in Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights Education ?1
Amy Argenal, Sandra Sirota, and Maria Hantzopoulos
SECTION 1: THEORIZING COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PRAXIS
1. ?Activist Accompaniment as Pedagogy ?10
Amy Argenal and Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga
2. ?Centering Living Knowledges in Migration Studies and Community-Centric Praxis: A Letter to Students, Accountability Partners, and Future Builders ?19
Jane Pak
3. ?Challenging Structures of Coloniality Through Co-Authorship: A Framework for Praxis ?31
Rina Malagayo Alluri and Zeus Hans Mendez
4. ?"Steelpanning" Decolonial Peace Education: Grassroots Peacebuilding Through Restorative Circles ?38
Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Kyle Bushell, LaToya Williams-Mohammed, Sheirane Beckles, Carlene Donald, and Kerrie-Ann Gayadeen
SECTION 2: RESEARCH POSSIBILITIES FOR COMMUNITY- ENGAGED PRAXIS
5. ?Participatory Action Research as Liberatory Educational Praxis ?49
Melissa Ann Canlas, Rachel Brand, and Gabriela Holmes
6. ?Agency, Belonging, and Exclusion in a Youth-Led Movement Organization: Reflections on a Youth Participatory Action Research Project ?59
Sandra Sirota, Taylin Santiago-Williams, and Zeraiah Ramos
7. ?Purposeful Work: Forging a "For Us, By Us" Model Through a Black Community Activist Research Collaborative ?68
Linda Francis Ross, T. Gertrude Jenkins, Eghosa Obaizamomwan Hamilton, and Colette Cann
8. ?STEM Community Praxis: Toward Social Justice-Based Program Evaluation in Education ?77
Christine A. Liboon, Bilgehan Ayik, and Jason N. Dorio
9. ?Indigenous Peoples' Collective Rights and Human Rights Education: Lessons From the Indigenous Navigator Partnership in Lomerio, Bolivia ?88
Romina Quezada Morales
10. ?The Mobile Cafe of Migrant Justice: The Ambigu Trashumante Barra de Cafe Ambulante Project ?97
Augusto M. Rivero
SECTION 3: COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PRAXIS IN INFORMAL EDUCATIONAL SPACES
11. ?Reciprocity in Community Practice: Reflections From an Arts-Based Climate Justice Project With Adolescents ?110
Norin Taj
12. ?"Those Closest to the Problem Are Closest to the Solution": Moving From Incarceration to Community-Engaged Justice Through Co-Generative Praxis ?120
Matthew M. Green, Consuela Gaines, Norris Henderson, Checo Yancy, and Ilona Prieto
13. ?Starting From Scratch? The Challenges and Rewards of Starting a Place-Based Peace Education Center ?130
Leonisa Ardizzone
14. ?Welcome Through Football: Building Inclusive Communities With Refugee Children Through Sport ?141
Lida Tsene
15. ?Exploring Liberatory Praxis Through Youth-Centered Participatory Programming ?152
Heidi I. Fahning, Joanna Tzenis, Erma Fetic Mujic, Zhuldyz Amankulova, and Ashley Purry
SECTION 4: COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PRAXIS THROUGH FORMAL EDUCATIONAL SPACES
16. ?Equitable Futures: Antiracist Praxis Through Community and Higher Education Collaborations ?162
Nicole Gao, Nyhisha T. Gibbs, Grace Hill, Taneisha N. Means, Sophie Mode, Shona Tucker, and Eva Woods Peiro
17. ?Bridging Gaps in Peacebuilding: Youth Empowerment Through Participatory Filmmaking in Yogyakarta, Indonesia ?175
Dody Wibowo, Nitiprabhu Pramatatya, and Glory Prayoga Victor Fanggidae
18. ?The Human Right to Higher Education: A Digital Toolkit for Refugees Through the Article 26 Backpack Initiative ?184
Keith David Watenpaugh
19. ?Unlearning to Relearn: Building College-Community Partnerships in South Carolina ?194
Alysa M. Handelsman
20. ?Community-Engaged Praxis on Human Rights Education and Migration: Building Relationships Between Colleges and Local Public Schools ?204
Melanie Hidalgo, Arlene Chen, and Maria Hantzopoulos
21. ?Concluding Thoughts: The Necessity of Community-Engaged Praxis ?212
Amy Argenal, Sandra Sirota, and Maria Hantzopoulos
Endnotes ?215
References ?221
Index ?247
About the Editors and Contributors ?261
Acknowledgments ?vii
Introduction: Centering Community-Engaged Praxis in Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights Education ?1
Amy Argenal, Sandra Sirota, and Maria Hantzopoulos
SECTION 1: THEORIZING COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PRAXIS
1. ?Activist Accompaniment as Pedagogy ?10
Amy Argenal and Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga
2. ?Centering Living Knowledges in Migration Studies and Community-Centric Praxis: A Letter to Students, Accountability Partners, and Future Builders ?19
Jane Pak
3. ?Challenging Structures of Coloniality Through Co-Authorship: A Framework for Praxis ?31
Rina Malagayo Alluri and Zeus Hans Mendez
4. ?"Steelpanning" Decolonial Peace Education: Grassroots Peacebuilding Through Restorative Circles ?38
Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Kyle Bushell, LaToya Williams-Mohammed, Sheirane Beckles, Carlene Donald, and Kerrie-Ann Gayadeen
SECTION 2: RESEARCH POSSIBILITIES FOR COMMUNITY- ENGAGED PRAXIS
5. ?Participatory Action Research as Liberatory Educational Praxis ?49
Melissa Ann Canlas, Rachel Brand, and Gabriela Holmes
6. ?Agency, Belonging, and Exclusion in a Youth-Led Movement Organization: Reflections on a Youth Participatory Action Research Project ?59
Sandra Sirota, Taylin Santiago-Williams, and Zeraiah Ramos
7. ?Purposeful Work: Forging a "For Us, By Us" Model Through a Black Community Activist Research Collaborative ?68
Linda Francis Ross, T. Gertrude Jenkins, Eghosa Obaizamomwan Hamilton, and Colette Cann
8. ?STEM Community Praxis: Toward Social Justice-Based Program Evaluation in Education ?77
Christine A. Liboon, Bilgehan Ayik, and Jason N. Dorio
9. ?Indigenous Peoples' Collective Rights and Human Rights Education: Lessons From the Indigenous Navigator Partnership in Lomerio, Bolivia ?88
Romina Quezada Morales
10. ?The Mobile Cafe of Migrant Justice: The Ambigu Trashumante Barra de Cafe Ambulante Project ?97
Augusto M. Rivero
SECTION 3: COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PRAXIS IN INFORMAL EDUCATIONAL SPACES
11. ?Reciprocity in Community Practice: Reflections From an Arts-Based Climate Justice Project With Adolescents ?110
Norin Taj
12. ?"Those Closest to the Problem Are Closest to the Solution": Moving From Incarceration to Community-Engaged Justice Through Co-Generative Praxis ?120
Matthew M. Green, Consuela Gaines, Norris Henderson, Checo Yancy, and Ilona Prieto
13. ?Starting From Scratch? The Challenges and Rewards of Starting a Place-Based Peace Education Center ?130
Leonisa Ardizzone
14. ?Welcome Through Football: Building Inclusive Communities With Refugee Children Through Sport ?141
Lida Tsene
15. ?Exploring Liberatory Praxis Through Youth-Centered Participatory Programming ?152
Heidi I. Fahning, Joanna Tzenis, Erma Fetic Mujic, Zhuldyz Amankulova, and Ashley Purry
SECTION 4: COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PRAXIS THROUGH FORMAL EDUCATIONAL SPACES
16. ?Equitable Futures: Antiracist Praxis Through Community and Higher Education Collaborations ?162
Nicole Gao, Nyhisha T. Gibbs, Grace Hill, Taneisha N. Means, Sophie Mode, Shona Tucker, and Eva Woods Peiro
17. ?Bridging Gaps in Peacebuilding: Youth Empowerment Through Participatory Filmmaking in Yogyakarta, Indonesia ?175
Dody Wibowo, Nitiprabhu Pramatatya, and Glory Prayoga Victor Fanggidae
18. ?The Human Right to Higher Education: A Digital Toolkit for Refugees Through the Article 26 Backpack Initiative ?184
Keith David Watenpaugh
19. ?Unlearning to Relearn: Building College-Community Partnerships in South Carolina ?194
Alysa M. Handelsman
20. ?Community-Engaged Praxis on Human Rights Education and Migration: Building Relationships Between Colleges and Local Public Schools ?204
Melanie Hidalgo, Arlene Chen, and Maria Hantzopoulos
21. ?Concluding Thoughts: The Necessity of Community-Engaged Praxis ?212
Amy Argenal, Sandra Sirota, and Maria Hantzopoulos
Endnotes ?215
References ?221
Index ?247
About the Editors and Contributors ?261