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Communities of Youth - Cultural Practice and Informal Learning (Paperback)
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Communities of Youth - Cultural Practice and Informal Learning (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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This title was first published in 2002.Communities of Youth
critically evaluates what it means to be a young person at the
beginning of the twenty-first century and the problems,
opportunities and dilemmas that emerge from the experience. The
book is concerned with putting key conceptual debates to do with
youth in a comparative cutting-edge empirical context. In
particular, it endeavours to transcend what its contributors feel
is one of the most damaging trends of recent work on the question
of youth, namely: the division between young people's transitions
and youth culture. Building upon the notion of lifestyle as a means
of bridging this gap, the book provides something original and
timely: a way of linking young people's broader structural concerns
with the cultural and community contexts within which they conduct
their everyday lives. The data discussed in the book emanates from
a comparative European Union project conducted in Great Britain,
Germany and Portugal. The three training programmes examined are
based on the performing arts, but the authors argue that the skills
young people glean from these courses are more to do with generic
skills such as the ability to work effectively in groups, mutual
responsibility, discipline and above all, confidence, than the
technical proficiencies of performance. These courses become an
important part of the young people's lives and as such, provide a
space within which they become themselves . In this sense, the book
highlights the fact that far from being passive recipients of
public policy, young people actively engage with the power
structures that combine to shape their lives. Communities of Youth
therefore considers the diversity of European youth and by tapping
into this diversity it develops important recommendations that will
inform academic debate, research and youth policy.
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