Posts Tagged ‘Participation & Citizenship’

The Right To Not Participate

October 30th, 2007 by mas | Comments | Filed in Participation & Citizenship

I commented in a discussion a while ago that one of the features of the right for children and young people to participate was also the right to choose not to participate. After I’d said it I wasn’t quite sure if it was actually what I’d meant to say! Then it sounded a bit dumb - so why would people in the youth participation field be interested in young people that choose not to participate?

Lots of reasons probably - like investigating why they don’t want to participate, looking at creative ways to encourage them to change their mind and & so on. But what about respecting their choice simply not to - would this be (more…)

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Project Based Youth Participation

August 24th, 2007 by mas | Comments | Filed in Courses & Events, Participation & Citizenship

planning projectsI was reading a blog earlier by the Young Adult Library Services Association about ‘What is Youth Participation‘.

It interested me because it advocates a project based approach to youth participation which is pretty similar to our own approach. I was disappointed though to read towards the end of the article (more…)

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What is Youth Participation?

July 22nd, 2007 by mas | Comments | Filed in Courses & Events, Participation & Citizenship

participationAlthough I’d heard of the term ‘youth participation’ I’d never really took much notice of it until quite recently. There are lots of these sorts of terms - community engagement, social exclusion, active involvement & so on & so on. Cynically I’ve tended to think of this kind of jargon as mostly used by people in an attempt to give what they’re doing credibility and people that spend too much time discussing things rather than doing them. Certainly at the time I was far too busy doing things to spend time wondering about what to call it!

Our training evolved and developed largely from just getting on with it - its not true though to say that we didn’t have our own jargon and there definitely had been a lot of planning before we started. (more…)

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