Overview
- Gives insight into a multitude of participatory practices and learning activities in different settings
- Addresses young people’s living conditions and how these are related to participating and learning activities
- Discusses youth agency in relation to political contexts and welfare arrangements of the nation states
Part of the book series: Young People and Learning Processes in School and Everyday Life (YPLP, volume 7)
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This book contributes to the studies on learning processes occurring outside “traditional” socialization settings such as family and school, by analysing civic and political participation and learning experiences. In this perspective, the book delves into the connections between the concepts of learning and participation and, in various ways and from different perspectives, critically interrogates learning and participation as interrelated phenomena, with the aim of revealing complexities implicated in pathways to adulthood.
Being interdisciplinary in its nature (contributors come from disciplinary backgrounds such as educational sciences, child and youth studies, social work, sociology and political science), the volume provides an up-to date analysis of contemporary issues connected to youth participation and learning. The work taps into central areas of everyday life of young people and youth meaning-making and generates and presents qualitative knowledge about what it means to be young in Europe today.
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Keywords
- social anthropology
- social work
- political science
- youth participation
- learning practices
- educational studies
- learning processes within participatory settings
- mixed social backgrounds
- models of citizenship
- formal spaces of learning
- learning experiences
- youth participation and learning
- hard and soft competencies
- informal learning
- participation in culture and politics
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Zulmir Bečević, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research is about young people's living conditions in a broad sense, with specific focus on issues relating to citizenship and rights, participation and exclusion, and social, economic, and racial inequalities. His most recent book publication is Children and Young People in Vulnerable Life Situations - Perspectives from Research and Practice (Liber, 2020, together with Linnéa Bruno.
Björn Andersson has a PhD in Social Work and is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Much of his research concerns the social life of young people, especially the formation of relations in urban public space and youth participation. He has written on outreach approaches in social work and some of his latest research concerns social sustainability in urban planning as in his recent book Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities (Routledge, 2021, with Sten Gromark)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Youth Participation and Learning
Book Subtitle: Critical Perspectives on Citizenship Practices in Europe
Editors: Zulmir Bečević, Björn Andersson
Series Title: Young People and Learning Processes in School and Everyday Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92514-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92513-0Published: 18 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92516-1Published: 19 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92514-7Published: 17 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2522-5642
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5650
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 194
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Education, general, Political Science, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry