Joby Gardner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4369786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joby Gardner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joby |
| FAMILY NAME | Gardner |
| SIGNATURE | GARDNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2706-4851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Community-Based Justice Work to Prepare Urban Teachers, Counselors, and Educational Leaders
Growing Roses Through Concrete
Framed through Tupac Shakur’s poem, The Rose that Grew From Concrete, this study explores the pedagogical and curricular praxes of teachers and students conducting research to dismantle the carceral conditions of their higher education experiences. It draws on reflective written narratives from teachers, students, and research mentors, all of whom participated in a participatory action research (PAR) class at a large urban community college over …
Our mission is uplift
Purpose This study aims to explore how Black homeschooling organizations based in the United States with a public web presence in 2023–2024 characterize their missions and what these mission statements can tell us both about the growing homeschooling movement among Black parents, as well as its potential implications for education as a means of individual and collective uplift and positive social change. Design/methodology/approach This paper use…
Back in on the Outside
Most students released from detention never return to school. This study uses youth participatory action research and Social Justice Youth Development Theory to explore the experiences of those who do. Findings demonstrate that formerly incarcerated students want to return to school but face institutionalized resistance that amounts to racialized exclusion, violence, and state-sanctioned neglect at Chicago's school/prison nexus. We offer recommen…
Keeping Faith
Placed Blame
A persistent problem in educational policy and research concerns how social (dis)advantage is reproduced in free societies built on ideologies of equality, opportunity, and social mobility. In this article, the author examines narratives by and for incarcerated young men about how they “got caught up” in illegal activity and eventually incarcerated. Young men and adults supervising them are found to contest choice and culpability in terms of gene…
Beyond “Making It” or Not
This article explores how incarcerated young men talked about the future. I use theories of cultural capital and methods informed by critical discourse analysis to analyze interviews with 15 young men and a series of essays about the future written by 10 different young men. It suggests new directions for analysis and programmatic use of future talk by and for incarcerated or similarly marginalized young people, specifically moving beyond well-es…
Democracy's Orphans
Transition to adulthood is increasingly complex, extended, and challenging. Working-class Brown and Black young men face very difficult transitions, as they are overrepresented in the justice system, poverty, foster care, special education, and among victims of violence. What effects do these developments have on young people's places in free democratic society and on the contours and possibilities of youth citizenship? Specifically, how do incar…
What are you Representing?” Contesting Identities of Incarcerated Youth
Back in on the Outside
Most students released from detention never return to school. This study uses youth participatory action research and Social Justice Youth Development Theory to explore the experiences of those who do. Findings demonstrate that formerly incarcerated students want to return to school but face institutionalized resistance that amounts to racialized exclusion, violence, and state-sanctioned neglect at Chicago's school/prison nexus. We offer recommen…
Placed Blame
A persistent problem in educational policy and research concerns how social (dis)advantage is reproduced in free societies built on ideologies of equality, opportunity, and social mobility. In this article, the author examines narratives by and for incarcerated young men about how they “got caught up” in illegal activity and eventually incarcerated. Young men and adults supervising them are found to contest choice and culpability in terms of gene…
Keeping Faith
Democracy's Orphans
Transition to adulthood is increasingly complex, extended, and challenging. Working-class Brown and Black young men face very difficult transitions, as they are overrepresented in the justice system, poverty, foster care, special education, and among victims of violence. What effects do these developments have on young people's places in free democratic society and on the contours and possibilities of youth citizenship? Specifically, how do incar…
Beyond “Making It” or Not
This article explores how incarcerated young men talked about the future. I use theories of cultural capital and methods informed by critical discourse analysis to analyze interviews with 15 young men and a series of essays about the future written by 10 different young men. It suggests new directions for analysis and programmatic use of future talk by and for incarcerated or similarly marginalized young people, specifically moving beyond well-es…
What are you Representing?” Contesting Identities of Incarcerated Youth
What are you Representing?” Contesting Identities of Incarcerated Youth
Beyond “Making It” or Not
This article explores how incarcerated young men talked about the future. I use theories of cultural capital and methods informed by critical discourse analysis to analyze interviews with 15 young men and a series of essays about the future written by 10 different young men. It suggests new directions for analysis and programmatic use of future talk by and for incarcerated or similarly marginalized young people, specifically moving beyond well-es…
Democracy's Orphans
Transition to adulthood is increasingly complex, extended, and challenging. Working-class Brown and Black young men face very difficult transitions, as they are overrepresented in the justice system, poverty, foster care, special education, and among victims of violence. What effects do these developments have on young people's places in free democratic society and on the contours and possibilities of youth citizenship? Specifically, how do incar…
Keeping Faith
Placed Blame
A persistent problem in educational policy and research concerns how social (dis)advantage is reproduced in free societies built on ideologies of equality, opportunity, and social mobility. In this article, the author examines narratives by and for incarcerated young men about how they “got caught up” in illegal activity and eventually incarcerated. Young men and adults supervising them are found to contest choice and culpability in terms of gene…
Our mission is uplift
Purpose This study aims to explore how Black homeschooling organizations based in the United States with a public web presence in 2023–2024 characterize their missions and what these mission statements can tell us both about the growing homeschooling movement among Black parents, as well as its potential implications for education as a means of individual and collective uplift and positive social change. Design/methodology/approach This paper use…
Back in on the Outside
Most students released from detention never return to school. This study uses youth participatory action research and Social Justice Youth Development Theory to explore the experiences of those who do. Findings demonstrate that formerly incarcerated students want to return to school but face institutionalized resistance that amounts to racialized exclusion, violence, and state-sanctioned neglect at Chicago's school/prison nexus. We offer recommen…
Growing Roses Through Concrete
Framed through Tupac Shakur’s poem, The Rose that Grew From Concrete, this study explores the pedagogical and curricular praxes of teachers and students conducting research to dismantle the carceral conditions of their higher education experiences. It draws on reflective written narratives from teachers, students, and research mentors, all of whom participated in a participatory action research (PAR) class at a large urban community college over …
Community-Based Justice Work to Prepare Urban Teachers, Counselors, and Educational Leaders
Sociology (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Education Discipline and Inequality (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)