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Youth in Education explores the multiple, interrelated social
contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how
educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and
ideological diversity. Schools, families and communities represent
important settings in which young people must make successful
transitions to adulthood, and the classroom often becomes a
battleground in which these contexts and values interact. With
contributions from the UK, Belgium, Germany and Canada, the
chapters in this book explore rich examples from Europe and North
America to suggest strategies that can help to counter negative
perceptions, processes of stigmatization and disengagement, instead
prioritising peer support and cooperative learning to give pupils a
renewed sense of worth. This book takes the growing ethno-cultural
diversity in education systems to heart and studies the various
related educational processes from a multidisciplinary and
multi-method approach. It aims to offer more insight into
underlying mechanisms that are often implicit, but can be important
factors that positively or negatively influence educational
trajectories and outcomes. It is essential reading for researchers,
academics and postgraduate students in the fields of education,
sociology, higher education, policy and politics, and social and
cultural geography.
Although many scholars are convinced of the apparent civic
disengagement of youth, others suggest that civic participation of
young people is stable and increasingly expressed through
non-institutionalized forms of practicing politics. This book makes
a key contribution to this discussion by asking whether the
"decline or shift" paradigm is sufficient in understanding
political participation of the youth. It argues that we need to
move beyond this framework and develop a renewed reflection on the
meaning of "civic and political engagement". It asks crucial
questions such as: How can the young be educated into assuming
civic and political responsibility? Why and how do young people
engage in social and political action? How do the principal
mediating institutions (education, media and the family) contribute
to new or different forms of youth civic engagement? This text
contains contributions from acknowledged specialists such as
Constance Flanagan, Mark Elchardus, Marc Hooghe and Bert
Klandermans and will be of key interest to students and scholars of
youth and young citizens, civic & political involvement,
European politics, youth studies, sociology, political
participation and electoral behaviour.
Although many scholars are convinced of the apparent civic
disengagement of youth, others suggest that civic participation of
young people is stable and increasingly expressed through
non-institutionalized forms of practicing politics. This book makes
a key contribution to this discussion by asking whether the
"decline or shift" paradigm is sufficient in understanding
political participation of the youth. It argues that we need to
move beyond this framework and develop a renewed reflection on the
meaning of "civic and political engagement". It asks crucial
questions such as: How can the young be educated into assuming
civic and political responsibility? Why and how do young people
engage in social and political action? How do the principal
mediating institutions (education, media and the family) contribute
to new or different forms of youth civic engagement? This text
contains contributions from acknowledged specialists such as
Constance Flanagan, Mark Elchardus, Marc Hooghe and Bert
Klandermans and will be of key interest to students and scholars of
youth and young citizens, civic & political involvement,
European politics, youth studies, sociology, political
participation and electoral behaviour.
The public sphere provides a domain of social life in which public
opinion is expressed by means of rational discourse and debate.
Habermas linked its historical development to the coffee houses and
journals in England, Parisian salons and German reading clubs. He
described it as a bourgeois public sphere, where private people
come together and where they turn from a politically disempowered
bourgeoisie into an effective political agent - the public
intellectual. With communication networks being diversified and
expanded over time, the worldwide web has put pressure on
traditional public spheres. These new informal and horizontal
networks shaped by the internet create new contexts in which an
anonymous and dispersed public may gather in political
e-communities to reflect critically on societal issues. These
de-centered modes of communication and influence-seeking change the
role of the (traditional) public intellectual and - at first sight
- seem to make their contributions less influential. What
processes, therefore, influence changes within public spheres and
how can intellectuals assert authority within them? Should we speak
of different types of intellectuals, according to the different
modes of public intellectual engagement? This ground-breaking
volume gives a multi-disciplinary account of the way in which
public intellectuals have constructed their role and position in
the public sphere in the past, and how they try to voice public
concerns and achieve authority again within those fragmented public
spheres today.
There has long been a debate about implications of globalization
for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the
role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to
globalization. In contrast, until recently there has been much less
debate about the fate of religion. 'Globalization' has been viewed
as part of the rationalization process, which has already relegated
religion to the dustbin of history, just as it threatens the
nation, as the world moves toward a cosmopolitan ethics and
politics. The chapters in this book, however, make the case for the
salience and resilience of religion, often in conjunction with
nationalism, in the contemporary world in several ways. This book
highlights the diverse ways in which religions first and foremost
make use of the traditional power and communication channels
available to them, like strategies of conversion, the preservation
of traditional value systems, and the intertwining of religious and
political power. Nevertheless, challenged by a more culturally and
religiously diversified societies and by the growth of new
religious sects, contemporary religions are also forced to let go
of these well known strategies of preservation and formulate new
ways of establishing their position in local contexts. This
collection of essays by established and emerging scholars brings
together theory-driven and empirically-based research and
case-studies about the global and bottom-up strategies of religions
and religious traditions in Europe and beyond to rethink their
positions in their local communities and in the world.
The public sphere provides a domain of social life in which public
opinion is expressed by means of rational discourse and debate.
Habermas linked its historical development to the coffee houses and
journals in England, Parisian salons and German reading clubs. He
described it as a bourgeois public sphere, where private people
come together and where they turn from a politically disempowered
bourgeoisie into an effective political agent - the public
intellectual. With communication networks being diversified and
expanded over time, the worldwide web has put pressure on
traditional public spheres. These new informal and horizontal
networks shaped by the internet create new contexts in which an
anonymous and dispersed public may gather in political
e-communities to reflect critically on societal issues. These
de-centered modes of communication and influence-seeking change the
role of the (traditional) public intellectual and - at first sight
- seem to make their contributions less influential. What
processes, therefore, influence changes within public spheres and
how can intellectuals assert authority within them? Should we speak
of different types of intellectuals, according to the different
modes of public intellectual engagement? This ground-breaking
volume gives a multi-disciplinary account of the way in which
public intellectuals have constructed their role and position in
the public sphere in the past, and how they try to voice public
concerns and achieve authority again within those fragmented public
spheres today.
Religion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more
religious people are, the more likely they are to volunteer. This
positive association enjoys significant support in current
research; in fact, it could be considered the ‘default
perspective’ on the relationship between both phenomena. In this
book, the authors claim that, although the dominant approach is
legitimate and essential, it nonetheless falls short in grasping
the full complexity of the interaction between religion and
volunteering. It needs to be recognized that there are tensions
between religion and volunteering, and that these tensions are
intensifying as a result of the changing meaning and role of
religion in society. Therefore, the central aim and contribution of
this book is to demonstrate that the relationship between religion
and volunteering is not univocal but differentiated, ambiguous and
sometimes provocative. By introducing the reader to a much wider
landscape of perspectives, this volume offers a richer, more
complex and variable understanding. Apart from the established
positive causality, the authors examine tensions between religion
and volunteering from the perspective of religious obligation,
religious change, processes of secularization and notions of
post-secularity. They further explore how actions that are
considered altruistic, politically neutral and motivated by
religious beliefs can be used for political reasons. This volume
opens up the field to new perspectives on religious actors and on
how religion and volunteering are enacted outside Western liberal
and Christian societies. It emphasizes interdisciplinary
perspectives, including theology, philosophy, sociology, political
science, anthropology and architecture.
Youth in Education explores the multiple, interrelated social
contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how
educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and
ideological diversity. Schools, families and communities represent
important settings in which young people must make successful
transitions to adulthood, and the classroom often becomes a
battleground in which these contexts and values interact. With
contributions from the UK, Belgium, Germany and Canada, the
chapters in this book explore rich examples from Europe and North
America to suggest strategies that can help to counter negative
perceptions, processes of stigmatization and disengagement, instead
prioritising peer support and cooperative learning to give pupils a
renewed sense of worth. This book takes the growing ethno-cultural
diversity in education systems to heart and studies the various
related educational processes from a multidisciplinary and
multi-method approach. It aims to offer more insight into
underlying mechanisms that are often implicit, but can be important
factors that positively or negatively influence educational
trajectories and outcomes. It is essential reading for researchers,
academics and postgraduate students in the fields of education,
sociology, higher education, policy and politics, and social and
cultural geography.
There has long been a debate about implications of globalization
for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the
role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to
globalization. In contrast, until recently there has been much less
debate about the fate of religion. 'Globalization' has been viewed
as part of the rationalization process, which has already relegated
religion to the dustbin of history, just as it threatens the
nation, as the world moves toward a cosmopolitan ethics and
politics. The chapters in this book, however, make the case for the
salience and resilience of religion, often in conjunction with
nationalism, in the contemporary world in several ways. This book
highlights the diverse ways in which religions first and foremost
make use of the traditional power and communication channels
available to them, like strategies of conversion, the preservation
of traditional value systems, and the intertwining of religious and
political power. Nevertheless, challenged by a more culturally and
religiously diversified societies and by the growth of new
religious sects, contemporary religions are also forced to let go
of these well known strategies of preservation and formulate new
ways of establishing their position in local contexts. This
collection of essays by established and emerging scholars brings
together theory-driven and empirically-based research and
case-studies about the global and bottom-up strategies of religions
and religious traditions in Europe and beyond to rethink their
positions in their local communities and in the world.
Religion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more
religious people are, the more likely they are to volunteer. This
positive association enjoys significant support in current
research; in fact, it could be considered the 'default perspective'
on the relationship between both phenomena. In this book, the
authors claim that, although the dominant approach is legitimate
and essential, it nonetheless falls short in grasping the full
complexity of the interaction between religion and volunteering. It
needs to be recognized that there are tensions between religion and
volunteering, and that these tensions are intensifying as a result
of the changing meaning and role of religion in society. Therefore,
the central aim and contribution of this book is to demonstrate
that the relationship between religion and volunteering is not
univocal but differentiated, ambiguous and sometimes provocative.
By introducing the reader to a much wider landscape of
perspectives, this volume offers a richer, more complex and
variable understanding. Apart from the established positive
causality, the authors examine tensions between religion and
volunteering from the perspective of religious obligation,
religious change, processes of secularization and notions of
post-secularity. They further explore how actions that are
considered altruistic, politically neutral and motivated by
religious beliefs can be used for political reasons. This volume
opens up the field to new perspectives on religious actors and on
how religion and volunteering are enacted outside Western liberal
and Christian societies. It emphasizes interdisciplinary
perspectives, including theology, philosophy, sociology, political
science, anthropology and architecture.
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