Bastien / Holmarsdottir Youth ‘At the Margins’

Critical Perspectives and Experiences of Engaging Youth in Research Worldwide
2015
ISBN: 978-94-6300-052-9
Verlag: Sense Publishers
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 394 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: New Research - New Voices

This volume comes at a critical juncture, as global commitments transition from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals and the wider post-2015 development agenda is being discussed and debated. In these discussions, children and youth have been recognized as one of the nine major groups of civil society whose participation in decision making is essential for achieving sustainable development. There is also a concomitant need for action – innovative, evidence-based approaches to addressing entrenched global challenges or ‘wicked problems’ and engaging youth in those efforts. Within academic discourse, the perspectives and active participation of youth in research has long been debated. It is widely believed that their participation can result in better policy responses and contribute to the development of more relevant and effective interventions and programs to address their needs. However, the engagement of youth in research processes is not without critique; issues such as how to move from tokenism towards authentic participation and empowerment have been critically discussed, and many question if youth can or should even be expected to make change happen. Youth ‘At the Margins’: Critical Perspectives and Experiences of Engaging Youth in Research Worldwide brings together a range of critical and empirical contributions from emerging scholars and seasoned academics alike. Each contribution provides a unique perspective on the potentialities and challenges associated with youth engaged research. The chapters presented in this volume strive to critically interrogate and debate important foundational issues to consider when engaging youth in the research process, such as epistemological and methodological considerations. Important insights into the ethical, pedagogical and practical aspects one must contend with can be gleaned from the selection of chapters here; some of which are primarily theoretical and descriptive, whilst others present empirical data with case examples from around the world. This volume is devoted to showcasing high quality contributions to the scholarly literature on youth engaged research in order to spur further critical debate on the various epistemological, methodological and ethical issues associated with engaging youth in research processes and in addressing intractable global issues. The audience for this volume includes students, researchers and academics within a broad range of fields who are interested in understanding the range of approaches being used worldwide to include youth in research endeavors on issues of global importance including poverty, social exclusion, structural violence, un- and under-employment, education and health.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bastien, Sheri

Holmarsdottir, Halla B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; About the Cover; Growing up Global: Towards the Critical Engagement of Youth and Youth Voices in Research to Address Global Wicked Problems; Section I: (Re)visiting Critical Epistemological and Methodological Perspectives on Engaging Youth in Research; Youth at the Margins of Citizenship: A Review of European Youth Policy; Epistemological and Methodological Challenges in Research Concerning Youth at the Margins; The Experiential Bond: The Impact of Research with At-Risk Youth – The Relational and Ethical Challenges of Qualitative Research; Understanding the Ethical Requirement for Parental Consent When Engaging Youth in Research; The Voice of the Voiceless: Limitations of Empowerment and the Potential of Insider-Activist Methodologies with Anarcho-Punk Youth; Section II: Case Studies of Youth and Community Empowerment and Activism; Bengali Youth Speak out for Change: Knowledge and Empowerment of Youth in West Bengal, India; Kenyan Youth Left to Stand Alone? Engagement, Solidarity and Meaningful Exchange; Conducting Fluid and Timely Research in Youth Activism: Understanding Lessons from India; Uncanny Insight in Withdrawn Voices: Structural Violence, Aboriginal Hauntings and Youth-Powered Documentary in Western Canada; Section III: The Relationship between Youth, Institutions and Structures; Research with Children of Prisoners: Methodological Considerations for Bringing Youth in from the Margins; Fieldwork Dilemmas: Conducting Qualitative Research with Orphanage Youth in Ukraine; Research as Play: Discovering Roots of Educational Marginalization through Participatory Research with Indigenous Baka Youth in Cameroon; Stand by Me: Empowerment of Immigrant Youth in Urban Japan; Section IV: Dispatches from the Field; Youth Researching Youth: Reflections from a Multi-Country Study of Youth Claiming Rights to Education and Sexual Reproductive Health; Our Margins, Their Frontlines: Research with Child Soldiers and Armed Groups in Syria, Myanmar and Uganda; Youth as Researchers and Participants: Engaging Marginalized Voices in Rural India; Visualizing Abjection: The Making of a Photo Documentary in the ‘Other’ Worlds of Girlhood; About the Contributors.