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  • 23 - Community-Based Education

  • from Part VI - Education and Engaged Research
  • Edited by Brian D. Christens, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Community Empowerment
    Published online:
    18 April 2024
    Print publication:
    25 April 2024, pp 580-605

  • Summary

    In their rich history, community-based educational spaces (CBESs) have afforded communities room to build young people’s critical consciousness, to organize for social change, and to create learning environments that foster a political – and, in certain respects, a more meaningful – education. Broadly speaking, CBESs meet the specific needs of communities, such as providing access to food and opportunities for learning and identity exploration. In this chapter, the authors overview the scholarly literature related to CBESs and their power-building features that facilitate community power and psychological empowerment processes, as well as the tensions in CBESs that can hinder power-building. Amid this discussion, the authors highlight Urban Underground, a CBES in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as an organization that exemplifies the humanizing education, youth empowerment, and power-building possible within CBESs. Through this chapter, the authors contend that CBESs have the power to bring about social change in their communities and spur transformative change for those they serve.