The role of youth engagement in positive youth development and social justice youth development for high-risk, marginalised youth
This article describes reflective experiences documented by our youth leaders and community agency partners (n = 7 & 12, respectively) who have involved in our multi-year community-based research project. Overall, meaningful youth engagement facilitated by youth leadership was highlighted as a k...
| Published in: | International Journal of Adolescence and Youth |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2016-07-01
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2015.1067893 |
| Summary: | This article describes reflective experiences documented by our youth leaders and community agency partners (n = 7 & 12, respectively) who have involved in our multi-year community-based research project. Overall, meaningful youth engagement facilitated by youth leadership was highlighted as a key mechanism for positive youth development (PYD) and social justice youth development (SJYD). First, the key PYD-related concepts identified include the following: (1) strengths-based empowering approach to youth engagement, (2) capacity building and positive outcomes for youth and youth-serving agencies and (3) youth-oriented, collaborative research processes that enable the promotion of these positive outcomes (e.g. honouring youth voice: ‘bottom-up process for youth by youth’). Second, the key SJYD-related concepts identified were as follows: (a) activating the voice of youth for social/system change, and (b) advancing research into action – knowledge translation and practical application. The contributions of our youth leaders to youth engagement were shown to be vital to promoting PYD and SJYD. |
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| ISSN: | 0267-3843 2164-4527 |