Recognizing students as knowledge brokers has implications beyond increasing voter engagement, potentially mobilizing disenfranchised communities to vote and counteracting voter suppression efforts.
This is a really important area to explore, especially the bidirectional interactions between families. Years ago, when the city of Malmo Sweden was trying to implement a major expansion of recycling programs they focused on kids teaching their parents to participate, and found this to be far more successful than just starting with the parents. The students in this study are obviously far more knowledgeable and have more agency, but the principle of families being able to pull each other into engagement still applies.
This is a really important area to explore, especially the bidirectional interactions between families. Years ago, when the city of Malmo Sweden was trying to implement a major expansion of recycling programs they focused on kids teaching their parents to participate, and found this to be far more successful than just starting with the parents. The students in this study are obviously far more knowledgeable and have more agency, but the principle of families being able to pull each other into engagement still applies.