Edited by Ross VeLure Roholt, Michael Baizerman and R. W. Hildreth
How can we better organize and support youth in their contribution to public life? Ross VeLure Roholt, Michael Baizerman, and Roudy W. Hildreth have developed this book to help practitioners and educators who work with youth look at young people in a framework that is qualitatively different.
This book explores the idea of youth not only as a developmental stage but also as having a purposeful social role within civic life.
This text presents co-creation as a form of direct youth work practice that invites youth to become actively involved in their communities as citizens,
collaborating with youth workers to create and sustain safe spaces for civic engagement. The book's contributors show how adults who work with youth can promote a democratic environment where youth can discuss, engage, and act on issues that matter to them. This book provides concrete case studies
of civic youth workers and participating youth creating spaces for the civic and political development of young people in places that lack a social expectation of young people contributing to public life. From developing strategies for conflict reduction in Africa to mending the religious divide in
Northern Ireland, the examples describe how to coordinate, support, and manage programs and initiatives with young people that can effect positive change on a global scale.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: A Big Surprise?
Section 1: Civic Youth Workers
2. Critical Media Literacy in Action: Critical Media Literacy as Engaged Space in Urban Public Schools
3. Northern Ireland Museums as Sites of Youth Engagement
4. Creating Spaces for
the Next Generation of Civil Rights in Mississippi: Youth Participation in the Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition
5. Engaging Youth in the Evaluation Process
Section 2: Civic Youth Work Programs and Programming
6. School as a Site for Civic Youth Work Practices
7. Manchester
Craftsmen's Guild: Art, Mentorship, and Environment Shape a Culture of Learning and Engagement
8. Leading the Way: Young People Co-creating a Safe Driving Culture
Section 3: Policies Supporting and Challenging Civic Youth Work
9. Youth Civic Engagement in Korea: Past, Present, and
Future
10. Engaging Youth to Transform Conflict: A Study of Youth and the Reduction of War in Africa
11. Croatian Youth Corner: Youth Participation and Civic Education from Practitioners' Eyes
Section 4: Developing Civic Youth Work
12. Teaching and Training Civic Youth Workers:
Creating Spaces for Reciprocal Civic and Youth Development
13. Understanding Civic Youth Work: Touchstones for Practice
References
Contributors
Index
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Ross VeLure Roholt (MSW, PhD, University of Minnesota) is associate professor of youth studies in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches courses on civic youth work. He is an active community-based participatory researcher and has completed several studies
on youth work, civic youth work, and youth involvement in democratic and social development. He is active internationally, with long-term work in Northern Ireland, Laos, and Japan and shorter-term work in Morocco, Korea, the Netherlands, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, and Ireland.
Michael
Baizerman (MSW, Columbia University; PhD, University of Pittsburgh) is professor of social work director of youth studies in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota. He currently conducts research with students on behalf of municipal agencies and their youth services and is active
internationally, with long-term work in Northern Ireland and Laos and shorter-term work in Korea and the Middle East.
R. W. Hildreth (PhD, University of Minnesota) is associate professor of political science at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His research interests include
democratic theory, the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey, youth civic engagement, and transnational activism. He is currently working on a book about John Dewey, civic engagement, and the renewal of democratic life.
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