Youth: Responding to Lives : An International Reader / edited by Andrew Azzopardi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Azzopardi, Andrew.

Series:

Studies in Inclusive Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book draws from various fields of knowledge, in an effort to theorise, create new and innovative conceptual platforms and develop further the hybrid idea of discourses around social inclusion and youth (from policy, practice and research perspectives). Youth: Responding to lives – An international handbook attempts to fill the persistent gap in the problematisation and understanding of inclusion, communalism, citizenship – that are intertwined within the complex youth debate. It writhes and wriggles to highlight the interconnections between the encounters, events and endeavors in young people’s lives. The focus of this edited work is also intended to help us understand how young people shape their development, involvement, and visibility as socio-political actors within their communities. It is this speckled experience of youth that remains one of the most electrifying stages in a community’s lifecycle. Contributors to this text have engaged with notions around identity and change, involvement, social behavior, community cohesion, politics and social activism. The chapters offer an array of critical perspectives on social policies and the broad realm of social inclusion/exclusion and how it affects young people. This book essentially analyses equal opportunities and its allied concepts, including inequality, inequity, disadvantage and diversity that have been studied extensively across all disciplines of social sciences and humanities but now need a youth studies ‘application’.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Andrew Azzopardi

Introduction / Andrew Azzopardi

Re-vitalising the Youth Subculture Concept / Albert Bell

Serv(ic)ing the Country? / Arun Kumar

Youth Activism / Andrew Azzopardi

Spatio-Temporal Concepts and the Socio-Physical Realities Impinging on the Rehabilitation of Incarcerated Youth / Janice Formosa Pace and Saviour Formosa

Playing Grown-up / Jenny Slater

Schools Promoting Community Involvement for Inclusion / Suzanne Gatt and Laura Sue Armeni

Inclusion Is …: Musing and Conversations about the Meaning of Inclusion / Margo Allison Shuttleworth

Acceptance or Acceptability / Valerie L. Karr and Stephen Meyers

Constructing a Modern Disability Identity / Matthew J. Schuelka

The Power of Imagination in the Lives of Young People with Significant Disabilities / Janet Story Sauer

The World According to Sofie / Elisabeth de Schauwer , Hanne Vandenbussche , Sofie de Schryver and Geert van Hove

Warning: Labels May Cause Serious Side Effects for Learning Disabled Students / Nancy la Monica and Vera Chouinard

Youth Lead / Alexis Petri , Ronda Jenson , Arden D. Day and Carl F. Calkins

How Thinking against the Grain Teaches You to Love What School Hates / Naomi Folb

How Can I Lose My Shyness …? / Joanne Cassar

Developmental Denial / Trina Balanoff and Matthew Wappett

Conceptualizing Students with “Significant Intellectual Disabilities”: / Karen D. Schwartz.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789462094307

9462094306

9789462094314

9462094314

OCLC:

864849760