ABSTRACT Multicultural education generally takes place as culturally competent adults prepare other adults to work with a variety of student youth. In this paper, we present an alternative that disrupts the pattern of adults teaching about youth. Our alternative has youth educating adults in ways that centre youth’s experiences and insights with schooling. We discuss the educative efforts of Chroma, a youth community for LGBTQIA+ and allied youth aged 12–20. First, we tell the story of Chroma’s educative efforts. Then, we discuss our methodology. Next, we discuss three key sets of insights about their educative efforts – anchoring expertise, meeting adult learners halfway, and barriers to learning. We raise questions inspired by these findings. At last, we conclude with a deconstruction of the adult–youth binary in multicultural education and ethnographic research.

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LGBTQIA +青年作为多元文化教育者

摘要多元文化教育通常是在具有文化能力的成年人为其他成年人准备与各种学生青年一起工作时进行的。在本文中，我们提出了一种替代方案，它可以破坏成人关于青年的教学模式。我们的替代方案是通过以学校教育为中心的青年教育和见识教育青年。我们讨论了Chroma（LGBTQIA +的青年社区）和12至20岁的同盟青年的教育努力。首先，我们讲述Chroma的教育努力的故事。然后，我们讨论我们的方法。接下来，我们讨论有关他们的教育努力的三组主要见解-掌握专业知识，半途与成年学习者会面以及学习障碍。我们提出了受这些发现启发的问题。终于，