Youth, Education and Wellbeing in the Americas

Kate C. Tilleczek is a grandmother, educator, and Canada Research Chair in Youth, Education & Global Good at York University. She is full professor and director of the Young Lives Research Laboratory, which she founded in 2009 as a unique intergenerational space within and beyond the university to understand, investigate, support and amplify work with/by/for young people and their various communities as they navigate new challenges to their education and wellbeing (such as intersecting systemic injustices, problems of digital technology and ecological degradation). Her newest project, Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing, builds upon lessons learned in this book as well as previous projects and writings.Deborah MacDonald is a new mother and the senior research associate and manager of Dr. Kate C. Tilleczek’s Young Lives Research Lab at York University, where she supports Professor Tilleczek’s vast body of work and partnerships all around the world. Investigating and learning with and from youth and their communities, she explores interrelated aspects of education, wellbeing, digital technology and planetary health with/by/for young people.

• 1. The crucible of education with/by/for youth in the Americas2. Youth and the right to education in the Dominican Republic3. The right to education and wellbeing for youth in Guatemala4. Youth, education & wellbeing in Honduras: A sociological analysis 5. Formal education and lived experiences of boys on the margins in Trinidad and Tobago: insights from Institutional Ethnography6. Examining the educational rights of Black Caribbean diasporic youth in Toronto, Canada7. Black youth disengaging from Ontario’s educational system: Grounded Theory of their educational experiences8. Latin American youth and belonging at school in Ontario, Canada9. Wekimün School: Education with/by/for Indigenous youth and communities in Chile10. Youthful pedagogies for just transitions to wellbeing with/in complex worlds 11. Youth as educational revolutionaries: dispatches with/in the Americas