1st Edition

Becoming Citizens Deepening the Craft of Youth Civic Engagement

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

The decreasing rate of involvement in organized groups and with voting by young people is a disturbing trend that perhaps can be turned around. Becoming Citizens: Deepening the Craft of Youth Civic Engagement brings together civic education, experiential education, and political theory to provide a revealing multiple-perspective examination of the new alternative way of practice in the youth... Read more

1. Locating Youth Civic Engagement

2. Official Programmatic Descriptions

3. Youth Programmatic Descriptions

4. Adult Descriptions of Public Achievement

5. The Place of Evaluation

6. Essential Orientations and Practices

7. Learning and Youth Civic Engagement

8. The “Citizen” in Youth Civic Engagement

9. “I Want to Make a Difference?

10. The “Youth” in Youth Civic Engagement

11. Civic Youth Work

Biography

Ross VeLure Roholt is Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, School of Social Work, Youth Studies. He has studied and consulted on youth civic engagement and participatory youth work in the United States, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Palestine and Israel.

Michael Baizerman has a long and distinguished scholarly record in the Youth Studies field. As a professor at the University of Minnesota, School of Social Work, Youth Studies, he has written widely on the topic of youth, young people and youth work and has spoken widely on work with youth and youth work professional development.

R. W. Hildreth is Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University, Department of Political Science. He too has studied and consulted widely on youth civic engagement, providing technical assistance to youth programs throughout the United States and internationally.