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It has been suggested that “[t]here is an indelible, axiomatic connecting line drawn between youth/young people and the future” (Foster & Spencer, 2011, p 128). This connection is ubiquitous within both the policy and practice of schooling, which commonly constructs youth as a state that is, above all, one of becoming various things: as Kelly puts it, “becoming an adult, becoming a citizen, becoming independent, becoming autonomous, becoming mature and becoming responsible” (2011b, p 48).
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Black, R., Walsh, L. (2015). Educating the Risky Citizen. In: Riele, K.t., Gorur, R. (eds) Interrogating Conceptions of “Vulnerable Youth” in Theory, Policy and Practice. Innovations and Controversies: Interrogating Educational Change. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-121-2_12
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