Engaging youth in leadership for social and political change / Michael P. Evans, Kathleen Knight Abowitz, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Michael P., editor.

Abowitz, Kathleen Knight, editor.

Series:

New directions for student leadership ; no. 148.

New directions for student leadership, 2373-3349 ; number 148, winter 2015

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership in adolescents.

Youth--Political activity.

Youth.

Leadership--Study and teaching.

Leadership.

Service learning.

Physical Description:

104 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2015]

Summary:

The purpose of this volume is to consider alternative ways of thinking about youth leadership education. Youth leadership initiatives can help young people engage in democratic life, participatory governance, and organizing for social and political change. Leadership education oriented towards political and social change must continue to evolve in response to the lived experience of youth, not in response to our traditional programs of leadership education and our current politics, or institutions of government. This volume explores those new meanings through examining the theories and practices constituting the emerging ground of public leadership, including: research spanning secondary and higher education programs, local and international contexts, school-based and out-of-school time initiatives, and a broad diversity of youth. Political leadership education for the coming generations of citizens is taking on new forms and meanings, as educators, organizers, and youth themselves seek to build the social intelligence and competence needed to educate citizen-leaders. This volume will be of interest to leadership educators, individuals working with youth and college students, and student affairs professionals wanting to create a curriculum for leadership education oriented towards political and social change that evolves in response to the lived experience of youth. Book jacket.

Contents:

Beyond individual leader development: cultivating collective capacities / John P. Dugan, Natasha T. Turman, Mark A. Torrez

Beyond service: equipping change agents through community leadership education / Laurie Marks

Radically healing Black lives: a love note to justice / Shawn A. Ginwright

Leadership in solidarity: notions of leadership through critical participatory action research with young people and adults / Madeline Fox, Michelle Fine

Summer in the city: cultivating political agents in Boston out-of-school-time programs / Felicia M. Sullivan

Educating for global leadership: a North-South collaboration / Nicholas V. Longo, Janice McMillan

International perspectives on youth leadership development through community organizing / Rashida H. Govan, Jesica Siham Fernandez, Deana G. Lewis, Ben Kirshner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781119210672

1119210674

OCLC:

915499958