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Youth activism and education across contexts: Towards a framework of critical engagements
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Article
Citation
Peterson, A., Evans, M., Fulop, M., Kiwan, D., Sim, J. B. Y., & Davies, I. (2022). Youth activism and education across contexts: Towards a framework of critical engagements. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 52(7), 1088-1106. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1850237
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Abstract
In this paper, we discuss core ideas arising from research undertaken in a Leverhulme Trust (IN2016-002) funded international network project. The project examined youth activism, engagement and the development of new civic learning spaces within and across six countries (Australia, Canada, England, Hungary, Lebanon and Singapore). Arising from interactions with activists and educators and by reviewing literature, we argue that four areas are important for assisting a critical analysis of the fundamental complexities that researchers, teachers, youth workers and youth themselves, are grappling with within and through their activism. These areas that address ways of characterising and developing the relationship between education and activism focus on: engagement with context; engagement with meaning; engagement with diversity; and engagement in reflexivity. We do not present these areas as a simplistic typology; each involves complexities that cannot be easily or readily resolved.
Date Issued
2022
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Journal
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
Grant ID
IN-2016-002
Funding Agency
Leverhulme Trust