The challenges and affordances of online participatory workshops in the context of young people's everyday climate crisis activism: insights from facilitators

Citation

Rushton EA, Dunlop L, Atkinson L, Price L, Stubbs JE, Turkenburg-van Diepen M & Wood L (2023) The challenges and affordances of online participatory workshops in the context of young people's everyday climate crisis activism: insights from facilitators. Children's Geographies, 21 (1), pp. 137-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2021.2007218

Abstract
Participatory workshops can provide an equitable way of working with diverse communities to co-produce new knowledge and understanding in the context of young people’s everyday climate crisis activism. Drawing on data from interviews with seven facilitators, we consider the specific affordances and challenges provided by participatory workshops that are held online with groups including young people and teachers. We highlight that the online format can provide a powerful methodological tool for co-production, community building and developing constructive intergenerational dialogue. Although online workshops can include diverse voices, barriers and challenges remain when seeking to reduce the persistent under-representation of some groups.

Keywords
Sociology and Political Science; Geography, Planning and Development; Social Psychology

Journal
Children's Geographies: Volume 21, Issue 1

People

Professor Lizzie Rushton

Professor of Education, Education