Miguel Casar Rodriguez studies the relationship between knowledge, power and educational justice. Youth participation is part of that inquiry: who gets to ask the questions, and who takes part in decisions about education?
Knowledge, power and lived experience
Critical qualitative research asks how knowledge is produced and whose experience is recognized. Attention to power and lived experience shapes both the questions a study asks and how its findings are interpreted.
Young people as researchers and participants
Young people can help conduct research and take part in decisions that affect their lives. This approach treats them as contributors to inquiry, with knowledge and questions of their own.
Democracy and education
Research on public schools brings these questions into school governance. Miguel’s collaborative work examines student participation and the work of school board members, connecting educational justice to the decisions made in public education.
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