Youth activism, engagement and the development of new civic learning spaces across six countries

• In Event: Roundtable Session (Monday II)

Group Submission Type: Refereed Round-Table Session

Proposal

This round-table group session consisting of three papers draws on a comparative, Leverhulme-funded, International Network project examining youth Activism, engagement and the development of new civic learning spaces within and across six countries: Australia; Canada; Singapore; Hungary; Lebanon and the United Kingdom. The session draws on project data to explore meanings and experiences of youth activism and engagement across the six nations, including how these meanings and experiences connect with education and learning in formal, non-formal and informal contexts. The changing experiences of youth activism and how these experiences influence education and youth policy and practice will be discussed.

Sub Unit

• SIG: Citizenship and Democratic Education (CANDE)

Individual Presentations

• Youth activism: A comparative perspective across six countries - Marta Fulop, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences / Eötvös Loránd University; Dina Kiwan, University of Birmingham

• Education about and for youth activism: A comparative perspective across six countries - Jasmine B.-Y. Sim, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Ian Davies, University of York

• Patterns and variations of pedagogical practice for youth civic engagement and activism across six countries - Andrew Peterson, University of Birmingham; Mark Evans, OISE, University of Toronto