YOUTH STUDIES RESEARCH GROUP

         

 
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Co-Directors: Colette Daiute and Michelle Fine
Tel. 212 817-8711 (Colette Daiute); 212 817-8710 (Michelle Fine)
Email: Cdaiute@gc.cuny.edu and Mfine@gc.cuny.edu
Websites: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Psychology/socpersonality/Colette.htm ;
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Psychology/socpersonality/MFine.htm;
see also the website of the Participatory Action Research Collective at the Graduate Center, a group facilitated by Michelle Fine

The Youth Studies Research Group (YSRG) brings together researchers who are involved with young adults and work with them, and on their behalf, in a wide variety of settings, including schools, community centers, prisons, not-for-profits, and neighborhoods. The work of YSRG tends to focus on questions surrounding the identity of youths, especially in relation to gender, race, ethnicity, immigration status, and class. Overall, YSRG aims to promote the critical examination of social issues from youth's perspectives, and sees its research as situated at the intersection of practice and policy. Some of the recent programs or projects undertaken by YSRG include:

  • a three-year program on social justice and social development in educational studies, which funded over 20 graduate students in a variety of disciplines, and involved the creation of a series of interdisciplinary courses in educational studies (Daiute and Fine, in collaboration)

  • a study entitled "Discourses of Conflict," examining relationships between children's oral/written discourse and action around social conflicts in literature and life (Daiute)

  • a research project on teen sexuality and young women who have been sexually exploited (Fine)

  • a participatory study with men and women who have served long prison sentences: a look at parole and post-release outcomes (Fine)

  • global perspectives on youth conflict and resilience (Daiute)

  • race, ethnicity, class and academic opportunities: youth researchers' project on "Closing the Gap" (Fine)

  • young people's understandings of conflict and collective action in the former Yugoslavia: evidence from story-writing workshops for youth (Daiute)