Young People and the Struggle for Participation (eBook, ePUB)

Contested Practices, Power and Pedagogies in Public Spaces
Redaktion: Walther, Andreas; Pohl, Axel; Loncle, Patricia; Batsleer, Janet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in public spaces and what these spaces mean to them, individually and collectively. The book discusses how different spaces and places structure and are in turn structured by young peoples' activities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429777950
• Artikelnr.: 57123753

Autorenporträt

Andreas Walther is a Professor for Educational Sciences and Director of the Research Centre 'Education and Coping in the Life Course' at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Janet Batsleer is a Reader in Education and Principal Lecturer in Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Patricia Loncle is a Professor of Sociology at the French High School of Public Health, Rennes, France. Axel Pohl is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Work and Social Spaces at the FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Contested practices, power and pedagogies of young people in public
spaces: an introduction. PART I: Conceptual and contextual frameworks of
youth participation. 2. Researching youth participation - theoretical and
methodological limitations of existing research and innovative
perspectives. 3. Discourses of youth participation in Europe. National and
transnational perspectives. 4. Do youth policies matter? National and local
youth policies as contexts of Youth participation. Part II: Empirical
insights into forms and meanings of youth participation. 5. "This is a
compressed political system." Ambivalences of formal youth participation.
6. Young people's appropriation of public space: participation through
voice, sociability and activity. 7. Making a home in the city: how young
people take part in the urban space. 8. Examining styles of youth
participation in institutionalised settings as accumulation of capital
forms. 9. Participation and everyday life: emerging meanings in youth
cultural practices. 10. The interplay between life trajectories and
participation careers. 11. Participation biographies: meaning-making,
identity-work and the self. Part III: Towards new ways of understanding and
supporting youth participation. 12. Everyday pedagogies: New perspectives
on youth participation, social learning and citizenship. 13. Struggle over
participation: Towards a grounded theory of youth participation.