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Title: Searching for Change: Exploring Historical Silences and Counterstorytelling through Youth-Led Social Justice Movements
Language: English
Authors: Ariana Varela
Source: Communications in Information Literacy. 2025 19(2):271-288.
Availability: Communications in Information Literacy. e-mail: editors@comminfolit.org; Web site: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 19
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Social Justice, Youth, Story Telling, College Freshmen, Learner Engagement, Librarians, Minority Groups, Information Literacy, Critical Literacy, Seminars, School Community Relationship, Activism, Personal Narratives, History, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Critical Race Theory, Feminism, Social Action
Geographic Terms: California
Abstract: During a first-year engagement program, a librarian and a cohort of students worked towards a shared understanding of dominant narratives, historical silences, and creating counterstories through research to center marginalized stories and complicate existing narratives. As information literacy professionals, we should design interactive lessons that demonstrate critical search and evaluation skills through topics that are relevant to students and encourage them to work with issues that impact their communities. Incorporating critical information literacy, feminist pedagogy, and critical race theory, this two-day micro-seminar introduced first-year students to the legacy of youth community activism in the neighborhoods around their university. They practiced centering marginalized voices and experiences in their scholarly output and used a critical lens to reanalyze dominant interpretations. Seeing individuals of their own age group lead community change and create lasting historical objects encouraged their own ability to advocate through their scholarship and community involvement.
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Entry Date: 2026
Accession Number: EJ1493672
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