Contribution to Book
Peer Pedagogies, Communities of Memory, and Occupying the Florida Capitol.pdf
Rise Up! Activism as Education
(2019)
Abstract
In this chapter, I describe peer educational approaches to teaching and learn- ing (i.e., peer pedagogies) employed by the Dream Defenders during events that transpired during their thirty-one-day occupation of the Florida Capitol. Drawing upon resource mobilization/resource dependency perspectives, I conceptually frame the importance of members and tactical repertoires from an earlier student organizing collective with the origin story of the Dream Defenders. Specifically, I discuss the processes by which the latter organization used reflexive storytelling and participated in civic demonstrations (Davis III, 2015) to: 1) build solidarity, and 2) disrupt existing power relations between the state and youth of color.
Disciplines
Publication Date
September, 2019
Editor
Amalia Dache, Stephen Quaye, Chris Linder, and Keon McGuire
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Citation Information
Davis III, C. H. F. (2019). Peer-pedagogies, communities of memory, and occupying the Florida Capitol. In A. Dache, S. J. Quaye, C. Linder, and K. M. McGuire (Eds.) Rise up! Activism as education (pp. 115-146). Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.