Communities of Youth
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A01=Andreas Walther
A01=Axel Pohl
A01=Barbara Stauber
A01=Maria do Carmo Gomes
A01=Rui Manuel Bargiela Banha
A01=Steven Miles
Author_Andreas Walther
Author_Axel Pohl
Author_Barbara Stauber
Author_Maria do Carmo Gomes
Author_Rui Manuel Bargiela Banha
Author_Steven Miles
Biographic Outcomes
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Century
Cultural Youth Work
Du Bois Reymond
Education System
empirical youth research methods
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European comparative research
Follow
group dynamics
Hope
Hope Street
Indirect Learning
informal education
Informal Learning
Key Sequences
Non-conventional Means
performing arts training
Person
Qualifications Young People
social integration
Social Reproduction
Vice Versa
Virtual Professional Communities
Workshop Leaders
Young
Young Men
Young People
Young People's Meanings
Young People's Transitions
Youth Lifestyles
Youth Research
youth studies
Youth Training
Youth Training Schemes
Youth Transitions
Product details
- ISBN 9781138730106
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Steven Miles, Axel Pohl, Barbara Stauber, Andreas Walther, Rui Manuel Bargeila Banha, Maria do Carmo Gomes
