June 2016

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10 Questions Primer

What are the 10 Questions?

From 2009 to 2017, scholars from the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics studied how digital...
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Facing History and Ourselves with 10 Questions for Young Changemakers –– Student Activism

In collaboration with Facing History and Ourselves, the Democratic Knowledge Project developed a unit about youth civic agency that focuses on two cases of student activism: the 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott and the movement against gun violence launched by Parkland high school students in 2018. The two cases differ in terms of social and historical context, organization and strategy, and the consequences faced by student participants. Parkland students’...
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Example 5: Youth Participatory Action Research for the 8th Grade Civics (civics)

Melissa Strelke, a teacher at Frontier Regional High School at Deerfield, MA, folded the Ten Questions framework into her school-wide youth participatory action research project for the 8th graders.
Danielle Allen on Civic Agency in a Digital Age

Professor Danielle Allen describes three types of civic agent in the digital age: engaged citizens, activists, and politicians. All three are essential to democratic practice, but frequently (though not always) differ on the goals they pursue, types of action they take, and strategies of participation they deploy in seeking voice and influence. Professor Allen argues that the Ten Questions for Change Makers can serve as a tool for reflection and contemplation of possible consequences for each civic role...
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Facing History with the YPP Action Frame––Focusing on Eyes on the Prize: Ain’t Scared of Your Jails

November 1, 2016

By Chaebong Nam, Adam Strom, and Danielle Allen

I am pleased and proud to see my colleagues from the YPP Action Frame Project collaborate with Facing History to explore how our ten reflection questions for budding civic agents can support the sorts of inquiry that Facing History so ably guides. Below you will find a powerful suggestion for a classroom exercise that links study of past examples of civic agency with efforts to cultivate the civic empowerment of young people in the present. –Danielle Allen
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10 Questions for Young Changemakers

June 2016

What Is Participatory Politics?

Featured Posts

10 Questions Primer

What are the 10 Questions?

Facing History and Ourselves with 10 Questions for Young Changemakers –– Student Activism

Example 5: Youth Participatory Action Research for the 8th Grade Civics (civics)

Danielle Allen on Civic Agency in a Digital Age

Facing History with the YPP Action Frame––Focusing on Eyes on the Prize: Ain’t Scared of Your Jails

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