Main description:

This book contributes to the studies on learning processes occurring outside "traditional" socialization settings such as family and school, by analysing civic and political participation and learning experiences. In this perspective, the book delves into the connections between the concepts of learning and participation and, in various ways and from different perspectives, critically interrogates learning and participation as interrelated phenomena, with the aim of revealing complexities implicated in pathways to adulthood.

Being interdisciplinary in its nature (contributors come from disciplinary backgrounds such as educational sciences, child and youth studies, social work, sociology and political science), the volume provides an up-to date analysis of contemporary issues connected to youth participation and learning. The work taps into central areas of everyday life of young people and youth meaning-making and generates and presents qualitative knowledge about what it means to be young in Europe today.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Youth participation and learning.- Chapter 2. Three major challenges in young peoples political participation and a pragmatic way forward.- Chapter 3. Learning to participate in and through conflict.- Chapter 4. Professionalization of Youth Volunteering in Turkey: A case study.- Chapter 5. Youth Participation and Mediation Practices: Issues of Social Learning.- Chapter 6. Participation through Learning: Supporting Young People in Exile.- Chapter 7. The theatre as a laboratory of creativity and chaos: youth participation and informal processes of multidimensional learning.- Chapter 8. Mimesis and sharing: learning political imagination in everyday interactions.- Chapter 9. What do young people learn in formal settings of youth participation?.- Chapter 10. Politics of re-framing: Youth and the struggle for equal participation in the urban peripheries of Sweden.- Chapter 11. Young People's Spatial Practices as a Key to a different Perspective on Participatory Educational Landscapes - Reflections on Graffiti and Parkour.