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Introduction to the Special Issue on Transforming Practices: Emancipatory Approaches to Youth Engagement

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Transforming Practices: Emancipatory Approaches to Youth Engagement

Blanchet-Cohen, Natasha, Linds, Warren, Mann-Feder, Varda and Yuen, Felice (2013) Introduction to the Special Issue on Transforming Practices: Emancipatory Approaches to Youth Engagement. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, 4 (3). pp. 320-327. ISSN ISSN (online) 1920-7298

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Abstract

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies focuses on emancipatory approaches to youth engagement. Evoking ideas of freedom, release, and liberation, we explore youth engagement as a means to facilitate social change, to improve organizations, and to build healthier communities. Broadening and deepening youth engagement beyond a shift from youth as objects to subjects necessarily entails youth workers and educators grappling with the significance of engaging in respectful and transformative youth-adult relationships. In taking up this agenda, youth and adults collaboratively explore opportunities and obstacles, and make recommendations for extending youth engagement beyond a mere trend or project, to constitute a value system that underlies practice.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Applied Human Sciences
Concordia University > Research Units > Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies
Item Type:Article
Refereed:No
Authors:Blanchet-Cohen, Natasha and Linds, Warren and Mann-Feder, Varda and Yuen, Felice
Journal or Publication:International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies
Date:July 2013
Funders:
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies
  • Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University
  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Concordia University
Keywords:Emancipatory Practices, Adult/Youth Engagement, Social and Environmental Justice Youth engagement
ID Code:977452
Deposited By: Rosemary Reilly
Deposited On:22 Jul 2013 14:48
Last Modified:18 Jan 2018 17:44
Additional Information:The 12 articles appearing in this issue result from a two-day workshop hosted by the Applied Human Sciences Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in June 2012. The workshop brought together youth, practitioners, and educators who work with youth in Australia, Finland, the United States, and Canada (including Montreal and other Canadian urban centres) in order to connect around promising practices.

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