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This chapter presents an integrated discussion of the overarching themes of this edited volume. Building upon the editors’ understanding of education and youth agency as a dialectical relationship, this chapter considers the importance of contextual knowledge in analyzing formations of youth agency. It identifies three points in detail as vital contributions of this book: theorizing youth agency as imaginative work; connecting practices of representation to possibilities of youth agency; and highlighting the relational aspects of youth agency. The chapter calls for greater attention to how discourses of promoting youth agency with education circulate and are localized in distinct social contexts.
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Shirazi, R. (2016). Youth Agency and Education: Reflections and Future Directions. In: DeJaeghere, J., Josić, J., McCleary, K. (eds) Education and Youth Agency. Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33344-1_14
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