Policymaking is one of the most challenging arenas in which children's participation rights are implemented. The goal of this study is to portray patterns of children's participation in public ...policymaking and characterize various adults' reactions to children's participation. The study draws on protocols of committees operating in the Israeli parliament and interviews with an advisory group of children and young people who had participated on the committees. The findings show the potential of children's participation in national policymaking to mobilize policy change and to contextualize policy discussions. They also demonstrate that children's comments in policy discussions may evoke extreme responses, expressed as either fawning or dismissing. The conclusions offer practices that may assist in preparing both the participating children and the policymakers and in diversifying the children's voices.
•Children's participation in policymaking meetings can mobilize policy change.•It can also contribute perspectives that contextualize the discussions.•Children's comments in policy meetings may elicit fawning or dismissing responses.•Such responses are manifestations of adultism.•Recommendations for preparing children and policymakers are offered.
To date, youth leaders' competencies (YLC) have not been systematically investigated. This study aims to identify the required YLC to determine their readiness and openness amongst other qualities to ...be able to identify those youths who are able to take on federal government leadership positions in the upcoming 4th Industrial Revolution, which is important for the future economic success of the country. In order to contribute to fill this gap, this study adopted a two-stage design seeking to develop and test a scale of youth leaders' competencies in the UAE governmental organizations. In Stage 1, the author generated and refined the scale items, recognizing unique characteristics of the UAE governmental organizations. In Stage 2, the scale has been assessed in terms of dimensionality, validity, and reliability. Using a sample of 242 youth leaders, the YLC's are then tested and validated.
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an orientation to research that places value on equitable collaborations between community members and academic partners, reflecting shared decision ...making throughout the research process. Although CBPR has become increasingly popular for research with adults, youth are less likely to be included as partners. In our review of the literature, we identified 399 articles described by author or MeSH keyword as CBPR related to youth. We analyzed each study to determine youth engagement. Not including misclassified articles, 27 % of percent of studies were community-placed but lacked a community partnership and/or participatory component. Only 56 (15 %) partnered with youth in some phase of the research process. Although youth were most commonly involved in identifying research questions/priorities and in designing/conducting research, most youth-partnered projects included children or adolescents in several phases of the research process. We outline content, methodology, phases of youth partnership, and age of participating youth in each CBPR with youth project, provide exemplars of CBPR with youth, and discuss the state of the youth-partnered research literature.
In dem Beitrag wird anhand von Expert:inneninterviews mit Bürgermeistern zweier als peripher markierter ländlicher Regionen in Ostdeutschland nach deren Jugendbildern sowie ihren Perspektiven auf ...‚den ländlichen Raum‘ gefragt. Unter einer raum- und peripherisierungstheoretisch sensibilisierten Perspektive wird der Blick auf die Herstellung sozialer Ordnung über diskursive Grenzziehungen gelenkt, in denen sich Bilder von Jugendlichen mit Gestaltungs- und Herausforderungsdiskursen zu ländlichen, peripheren Räumen verschränken und institutionalisieren. Dabei lässt sich zeigen, wie sehr Jugend- und Raumbilder miteinander verwoben sind und in dieser Verwobenheit ebenso die Perspektiven von Kommunalpolitiker: innen auf die Herstellung von Möglichkeitsräumen für Engagement und Partizipation Jugendlicher in unterschiedlicher Weise berühren.
Youth participation in socio-political issues in this modern time is gradually rising, and the effects of it on nation-building are well observed, especially when it comes to change and progress. The ...main objectives of this study are to identify the instances where the students participate, to determine how students get involved, to understand the driving force of youth participating, to understand the experience/s of the students, and to determine possible causes why youth do not participate in national and local socio-political issues. Through the use of key informant interviews and focused group discussions, the researchers found that participants have engaged and participated in different socio-political issues on a national or local scale, such as civic engagement, volunteerism, policy-making, joining the labor sector, safeguarding and preserving national sovereignty, information drive to combat cultural discrimination and misinformation, and such. It was also discovered that a preference for social media and conventional methods were used by participants in their participation, depending on their target audience and the specific area where they would take part. Furthermore, it was unveiled that disinterest in youth, lack of encouragement coming from the community leaders, and lack of ways to empower youth due to lack of platforms are reasons youth do not participate in socio-political activities. Lastly, this study found that participants are eager to participate to obtain self-awareness and knowledge. And the support from the government and different institutions is needed in order to increase the awareness of the youth when it comes to socio-political issues.
There are 1.21 billion young people globally, and the majority are living in the Global South. Empowering young people to participate in development decision-making can make young people feel ...engaged, and enables programs to more effectively meet their needs. This qualitative study explores challenges and approaches to facilitating youth participation through interviews with a small sample of NGO practitioners. Recommendations for improving youth participation, that emerged from the interviews, include that NGOs should have constructive dialogue with donors around the value of youth participation, take more flexible and creative approaches, and formalise strategies that prioritise participation.
This article explores the methodological impact of sharpening researchers’ listening skills as part of the development of more context- and participant-sensitive approaches to research. The starting ...point is an analysis of structured app interviews with young people at a multicultural festival. Through the research process, we became increasingly aware of forms of communication we were prone to overlook, such as the here-and-now engagement of the participants, their carnivalesque expressions and associative and fragmented narration. Listening more openly required a reflexive extension of the data analysis and gave us unexpected glimpses into the life world and identity formation of young people.
Today's young people play far less sport than before. Or do they? The evidence, says Ken Green, shows quite the reverse. We have been promised “a deep and lasting legacy” from the Olympics. The ...evidence shows the Olympic sports model to be irrelevant to youth participation. Have we a misguided response to a fictitious illness?
Recent developments suggest a strong relationship between social media use and political engagement and raise questions about the potential for social media to help stem or even reverse patterns of ...political inequality that have troubled scholars for years. In this paper, we articulate a model of social media and political engagement among young people, and test it using data from representative samples of young people in Australia, the USA, and the UK. Our results suggest a strong, positive relationship between social media use and political engagement among young people across all three countries, and provide additional insights regarding the role played by social media use in the processes by which young people become politically engaged. Notably, our results also provide reasons to be optimistic concerning the overall influence of this popular new form of digital media on longstanding patterns of political inequality.
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