Civic engagement is not just concerned with identifying societal and political structures. It is also concerned with how young people understand themselves as civic agents capable of starting and sustaining change. Seeing students as change makers is a civically engaged goal supported by literature surrounding the aims of art education in K–12 schools. Working in collaboration with local teens, we engaged in a weeklong art camp that facilitated teens’ inquiry into the legacy of foot soldiers in the civil rights movement in Tallahassee, Florida. Teens explored the people, places, and events that mobilized the community as they made connections with current events and created a collective portrait of change makers. In this article we explore the question: How might positioning teens as arts-based researchers create an opening for young people to be civically minded critical thinkers and makers?

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公民从事艺术教育的愿景：作为艺术研究者的青少年

公民参与不仅与确定社会和政治结构有关。它还关注青年如何将自己理解为能够启动和维持变革的公民主体。将学生视为变革者是一个公民参与的目标，得到有关K-12学校艺术教育目标的文献的支持。我们与当地青少年合作，开展了为期一周的艺术营，以促进青少年对佛罗里达州塔拉哈西民权运动中步兵遗产的调查。青少年探索了与社区动员起来的人，地方和事件，与时事联系起来，并共同创造了变革者的肖像。在本文中，我们探讨以下问题：