Youth activism and education

Ian will make a presentation about youth activism and education. He will provide an overview of a current Leverhulme International Network project as well as discussing a recent empirically-based project about youth councils in Spain.

The Leverhulme project explores the meanings of youth activism and engagement to young people, professionals/policy makers; patterns of participation across individuals and groups; and, asks how education may promote forms of civic activism and engagement congruent with democratic pluralism. Across several locations (Australia; Canada; Hungary; Lebanon; Singapore; UK) this international network explores the changing experiences of youth activism and how these impact on education and youth policy and practice and on communities. In the more precisely focused Spanish project, youth councils are examined as spaces of citizenship education where young people are educated as political subjects. If colleagues would like to know more in advance of the seminar about this work, please see details about the Leverhulme project at https://www.york.ac.uk/education/research/cresj/researchthemes/citizenship-education/leverhulmeyouthactivism/#tab-1 and further details about the Spanish project may be seen in Edda Sant & Ian Davies (2017): Promoting participation at a time of social and political turmoil: what is the impact of children’s and young people’s city councils?, Cambridge Journal of Education, DOI:10.1080/0305764X.2017.1337719.