Pushing the Envelope on Youth Civic Engagement: A Developmental and Liberation Psychology Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Watts, Roderick J.; Flanagan, Constance
Titel	Pushing the Envelope on Youth Civic Engagement: A Developmental and Liberation Psychology Perspective
Quelle	In: Journal of Community Psychology, 35 (2007) 6, S.779-792 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-4392
DOI	10.1002/jcop.20178
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Young Adults; Citizen Participation; Social Justice; Activism; Developmental Psychology; Social Development; Politics; World Views; Interpersonal Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Entwicklungspsychologie; Soziale Entwicklung; Politik; World view; Weltanschauung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	In this article, we take a critical look at the growing interest in U.S. political participation as it exists in the youth civic engagement literature. Our critique draws from principles of liberation and developmental psychology, and from the incisive writings of experts in youth organizing. Youth Organizing evolved from the Positive Youth Development (PYD) and Community Youth Development (CYD) perspectives but its addition of social justice activism is consistent with liberation psychology. The essence of our critique is this: Although there is certainly value in the current civic engagement literature, much of it focuses on the maintenance of social and political institutions rather than on action for social justice. To promote a better balance, and one more relevant to the lives of youth of color and other marginalized young people, we offer a framework for empirical research on youth sociopolitical development. The focus is on the relationship between social analysis (including critical consciousness) and societal involvement that includes the full range of service and political work. Because youth is the focus, we also include a brief discussion of a distinctive challenge that adults face in doing just work with young people--namely, adultism. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10