The Black Youth Project Curriculum Workshop
Current Curricula
- Key Themes and Findings, by Elizabeth Todd
- Health and Sexuality, by Rayna Brown
- Youth and Hip-Hop, by Daniel Morales-Doyle and Woody Lajeune
- Self-Efficacy and Identity, by Milcah E. Ferguson
About the Curriculum Workshop
The Black Youth Project’s Curriculum Workshop consists of educators, social workers, community activists, and artists creating innovative student-centered curriculum from the Black Youth Project’s data set. The Black Youth
Project is a national research study conducted by Dr. Cathy J. Cohen examining the lived experiences, political behaviors and attitudes of youth with a primary focus on Black youth. In general, each educator participating in the Black Youth Project’s Curriculum Workshop is committed to Black Youth Projects’ curriculum goals which are:
- To create curriculum that examines how young people from communities who have been marginalized based on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, and class as well as other sources of stratification think about the world and their status in it.
- To create curriculum where Black and Latino students who are often the most vulnerable and alienated can participate in governing and policy making processes that often target their lives and their communities.
- To create curriculum that examines the systematic pressures, conditions, and desires that influences youth of color decision-making.
- To create curriculum where students can share their thoughts about the political, social, and economic structuring of society as well as to share their thoughts about issues that are salient for their age group through various creative mediums.
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