Youth as/in Crisis: Young People, Public Policy, and the Politics of Learning

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Internationally, there is a growing argument amongst policy makers and academics that broadening spectrums of young adults are ‘at-risk’ of various types of material, social, physical, and cultural insecurity. In this way, the traditional identification of transitions from youth to adulthood, marked by points of permanence such as stable employment, are beginning to fray. Through various academic, popular, and policy literatures, young people today are imagined as being both ‘threatened’ by social inequality as well as a ‘threat’ against which our notions of security and social cohesion are constructed. This edited collection includes empirical and theoretical work concerning the relationships between youth/young adults, public policy, and educational research, with its primary focus being new forms of public policy in Canada that, we argue, are emblematic of international policy instruments examining the policy and economic participation of young people. Examining key sites of youth participation, including post-secondary institutions, community-based programs, and work/employment programs, the included case studies examine how young people navigate and learn from everyday experiences of marginalization and violence while at the same time illuminating how these experiences are organized and reproduced through the very institutions that are meant to shape young people’s engagement in society. Front Matter ....Pages i-vii Youth, Policy, and Research (Sara Carpenter, Shahrzad Mojab)....Pages 1-9 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 “Youth” as Theory, Method, and Praxis (Genevieve Ritchie)....Pages 13-26 Critical Youth Participatory Action Research (Paula V. Elias)....Pages 27-44 Front Matter ....Pages 45-45 Alternative Futures for Work-Related and Vocational Education (Kiran Mirchandani, Meaghan Brugha)....Pages 47-64 The “Youth” Crisis in Nova Scotia (Stephanie Mackinnon)....Pages 65-79 The Ontario Youth Outreach Worker Program as Racialized Spatial Praxis (Ahmed Ahmed, Sara Carpenter)....Pages 81-93 Difference Is (André P. Grace)....Pages 95-106 Front Matter ....Pages 107-107 Where Do I Begin? (Trevor Corkum)....Pages 109-125 “Isn’t the Right to an Education a Human Right?” (Tanya Aberman, Philip Ackerman)....Pages 127-144 Exploring Transitions of Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men in Canadian Urban Contexts (Lance T. Mccready, David A. Pereira)....Pages 145-163 The Politics of Participation (Chloe Shantz-Hilkes)....Pages 165-180 Youth, Crisis, and Learning (Scott Zoltok)....Pages 181-195 Back Matter ....Pages 197-204