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Taking a Cubist Approach: The Importance of Youth-Produced Knowledge in Multigenerational Communities
Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor; Zoe Black; Amira Aderibigbe
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, v31 n1 p183-203 2025
Multigenerational knowledge spaces enhance learning across diverse age groups. However, within spaces that include several generations of adults, perspectives of youth are not always present. When youth knowledge is included in feedback about educational and organizational spaces, there is a wide range of the way they are included and the weight that is given to their perspectives and ideas. Although perspectives of youth are crucial in building learning spaces that are welcoming, equitable, and productive, the inclusion of youth is often seen as largely beneficial only to youth themselves. The multigenerational authors of this paper argue that youth voice is beneficial not just to youth, but to the personal growth of adults as well, and should be valued as such. We introduce Cubism as a conceptual framing for viewing multigenerational knowledge spaces based on the characteristic of the Cubist genre of portraying multiple perspectives at once on the same canvas. Framing multigenerational knowledge from this perspective can help us reframe the way youth knowledge is valued in relation to adult knowledge in learning spaces.
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