Youth-Driven Youth-Adult Partnerships: A Phenomenological Exploration of Agricultural Education Teachers’ Experiences

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• Personal Author:
  Mazur JM ; Vincent SK ; Watson JM
• Description:
  This phenomenological study explores the dimensions of youth-adult partnerships (YAPs) in agricultural mechanics classrooms in three rural schools. YAPs presume a positive learning collaboration between young people and adults who work together to achieve meaningful community-based change. Previous research on the development of YAPs has focused on non-school settings. However, in these agricultural mechanics courses, as part of a safety-focused curriculum, teachers engaged students in a collaborative project to build and install cost-effective rollover protective structures (CROPS) for local farmers' tractors. Thus, the CROPS project provided a unique opportunity to explore the inclusion of youth-driven YAPs as an engagement model for teachers, students, and the broader community. The findings from this secondary analysis of interview data from CROPS project teachers are threefold. First, evidence emerged of the experiential, communal/collective, and youth-driven aspects of YAPs in teacher-student and student-student collaborations. Second, shifts in power balances present a key dimension of the youth-driven dimension of YAPs. Third, the CROPS project aligns well with a youth-driven YAP in that it promoted high-quality student engagement within the learning system. Finally, we discuss the implications for integrating YAPs into agricultural education projects and suggestions for further research. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Machinery Agricultural Processes Author Keywords: Agricultural Mechanics Collective Communal Cost-effective Rollover Protective Structures Experiential Phenomenology Rollover Protective Structures ROPS Safety Education Safety Programs Tractors Young Workers Youth-adult Partnerships Youth-driven

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• ISSN:
  2162-5212
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  105-120
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20052963
• Citation:
  J Agric Educ 2015 Jul; 56(3):105-120
• Contact Point Address:
  Jennifer M. Watson, Research Coordinator, Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention at the University of Kentucky, 151 Washington Avenue, Bowman Hall, Lexington, KY 40536
• Email:
  jmazur@uky.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Education
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1f4f1e2bd634cb7f913b0556dab901bcf526486a7026afe85d243c9716631ed6271244a9d67d3b9d823c62f104244d0e3cf5c6c5e467e2e8dc5bfcd2c0d4e12e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/215844/cdc_215844_DS1.pdf
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