Originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, this volume explores how researchers, educators, artists, and scholars can collaborate with, and engage young people in art, creative practice, and research to work towards social justice and political engagement.

Section 1: Art is Rigorous Medium for Analyzing, Producing, and Sharing Knowledge 1. Imagining a More Just World: Critical Arts Pedagogy and Critical Participatory Action Research with Youth 2. Youthspaces as Places of Possibility: Art, Activism, and Collective Healing Section 2: Authentic and Reciprocal Relationships Matter 3. Street Wisdom: A Critical Study on Youth Homelessness and Decolonizing Arts-based Research 4. Storying Youth Lives: Centering Equity in Teaching and Teacher Education Section 3: Change Can Occur on Multiple Levels, Oftentimes Simultaneously 5. In the Space Between Us: Reflections for Adult Audience Members of Youth-Centered Participatory Research 6. Where Did We Go Right (and Wrong)? Reflecting on Definitions of Success and Failure with Youth Organizers Section 4: It is all about Praxis and the Process 7. Radical Imagination and "Otherwise Possibilities" in Qualitative Research 8. Walking on Ice: A Call to Tread Carefully, Think Reflexively, and Cultivate Dialogic Sectoral and Institutional Inquiry in the Enactment of Youth Participatory Action Research