Stovall David, Delgado Natalia
College of Education and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA.
New Dir Youth Dev. 2009 Fall;2009(123):67-81, 13. doi: 10.1002/yd.315.
Zero-tolerance discipline policies, harsh sentencing laws, and the gentrification of communities of color have devastating effects for the lives of young people. Coupled with the fact that urban schools can devalue their views, values, and understandings of the world, this article examines an effort to challenge deficit theories that permeate discussions on urban youth. Through the setting of a street law class at a high school with a social justice focus, two facilitators (an African American male and a Latina of Puerto Rican descent, one a qualitative sociologist and the other a lawyer, both trained as qualitative researchers) and a group of high school freshmen analyze the processes of the judicial system to analyze their lives through the tenets of participatory action research.
零容忍纪律政策、严苛的量刑法律以及有色人种社区的中产阶级化对年轻人的生活产生了毁灭性影响。再加上城市学校可能会贬低他们对世界的看法、价值观和理解，本文探讨了一项挑战弥漫于城市青年讨论中的缺陷理论的努力。通过在一所注重社会正义的高中开设一门街头法律课程，两位主持人（一位非裔美国男性和一位波多黎各裔拉丁女性，一位是定性社会学家，另一位是律师，两人均接受过定性研究人员的培训）和一群高中新生通过参与式行动研究的原则分析司法系统的过程，以分析他们的生活。
