Interweaving Youth Development, Community Development, and Social Change Through Youth Organizing

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 528-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Christens ◽  
Tom Dolan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Youth Organizing ◽  
Implementation Policy

Community organizing groups that have built coalitions for local change over the past few decades are now involving young people as leaders in efforts to improve quality of life. The current study explores a particularly effective youth organizing initiative through review of organizational documents and collection and analysis of qualitative data. The study finds that this model for youth organizing is effective at producing impacts at multiple levels because it weaves together youth development, community development, and social change into a unified organizing cycle. The initiative encourages participants by promoting psychological empowerment, leadership development, and sociopolitical development. Simultaneously, youth organizing produces community-level impacts, including new program implementation, policy change, and institution building. Social changes include intergenerational and multicultural collaboration in the exercise of power. This interplay between youth development, community development, and social change is discussed in relation to the growing field of youth organizing and other efforts to engage youth in civil society.

Zombies, Truants, and Flash Mobs: How Youth Organizers Respond to and Shape Youth Policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (13) ◽  
pp. 203-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerusha O. Conner ◽  
Sonia M. Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
High Power ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Youth Organizing ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Negative Valence ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Positive Valence

Youth organizing groups combine strategies from the fields of youth development and community organizing in order to mobilize young people to take collective action. Significantly, organizing work acknowledges that youth are commonly blamed for social problems that are beyond their control and repositions these youth as agents of positive social change. This approach complicates policy scholarship, which understands stakeholders as “targets” of policy initiatives. In a seminal work on public policy, Schneider and Ingram identify four quadrants in which target populations can be placed by policy formulations: advantaged (those with high power and a positive valence), contenders (those with high power and a negative valence), dependents (those with low power and a positive valence) and deviants (those with low power and a negative valence). Schneider and Ingram point out that young people are generally positioned as “dependents.” However, this chapter draws on empirical data from one youth organizing group to demonstrate how youth assert themselves as powerful stakeholders in important decision-making processes, contradicting policymakers’ construction of them as passive and weak.

‘Do our lives matter?’ Music, poetry, and Freedom School

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-267
Author(s):  
Amy Shimshon-Santo
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
National Network ◽  
Freedom Schools

This article presents synergies between arts education, political consciousness raising, and leadership development for youth, and suggests roles for the arts in community organizing for personal and social change. Arts education is seen as a strategy to unleash creativity, affirm cultural assets, cultivate multiple literacies, critique oppressive social practices, and ignite freedoms. Rooted in the US civil rights movement of the 1960s, Freedom Schools became a national network committed to youth development. The case study, set in the Freedom School of South Los Angeles, introduces readers to geographical, cultural, and institutional contexts for the work; outlines a critical methodology for participatory action research; and shares transformational autoethnographies of teaching and learning in arts education classrooms. It is grounded in intersectional feminist methodologies, and is aimed at educators, artists, urbanists, and cultural studies practitioners. The work invested in youth voice and professional development of novice teachers by activating creativity and intergenerational mentorship to reimagine alternative futures. Short term project outcomes are conveyed, alongside longer-term implications for systemic change that values the lives of black and brown youth, families, and communities.

scholarly journals PERUBAHAN SOSIAL MASYARAKAT ACEH JAYA PASCA GEMPA DAN TSUNAMI 2004

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akmal Saputra
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Government ◽  
Tsunami 2004

This paper explains  the social changes of Aceh Jaya society after the earthquake and tsunami 2004.This paper focuses on three things: changes in religious, social and cultural life as well as see the efforts of Aceh Jaya government in responding to the changes. The purpose of this research is to disclose the changes that occurred after the earthquake and tsunami which become the evaluation material for the policy maker and the planner of the community development program. The theory used in this research is the theory of social change. The method used in this research is qualitative method. Research findings indicate that there has been a change in the religious, social and cultural life of the Aceh Jaya community as a result of community development programs. Some of its development programs have an impact on people's non-self-reliance and some have been infiltrated by aqidah silting efforts which will then affect the religious life of the Aceh Jaya people. Changes in society also occur due to contact or interaction with different cultures that lasted for long periods of time. The Government of Aceh Jaya has made efforts to restore society to the expected conditions in accordance with the values prevailing in the Aceh Jaya society.Key Words: Community Development, Social Change

Youth Organizing for Social Change: Theory, Research, and Practice

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seema Shah ◽  
Sara McAlister ◽  
Kavitha Mediratta ◽  
Roderick Watts ◽  
Obari Cartman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Change Theory ◽  
Youth Organizing ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Social Change Theory ◽  
Theory Research

“Jumble Sales Are the Same the World Over”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
West African ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Lesbian Relationships ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Headed Households

This chapter analyzes the novels of the British writer Barbara Pym, which are often read as cozy tales of English middle-class postwar life but which, I argue, are profoundly influenced by the work Pym carried out as an editor of the journal Africa at the International African Institute in London, where she worked for decades. She used ethnographic techniques to represent social change in a postwar, decolonizing, non-normative Britain of female-headed households, gay and lesbian relationships, and networks of female friendship and civic engagement. Pym’s novels of the 1950s implicitly criticize the synchronic, functionalist anthropology of kinship tables that dominated the discipline in Britain, substituting an interest in a new anthropology that could investigate social change. Specific anthropological work on West African social changes underpins Pym’s English fiction, including several journal articles that Pym was editing while she worked on her novels.

Implementation of a positive youth development program by class teachers in a Chinese context

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-280
Author(s):  
Daniel T.L. Shek ◽  
Daniel W.M. Lung ◽  
Yammy L.Y. Chak
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Youth Development Program ◽  
The People ◽  
Study Results

Abstract This paper reports the findings of a case study in which a curriculum-based positive youth development program (Project P.A.T.H.S.) was implemented by the class teachers in a school. School-related factors which contributed to the success of program implementation were identified in the study. Results showed that factors facilitating the program implementation were closely related to the “5Ps” model (i.e., program, people, process, policy and place). While all the above factors contributed to the success of program implementation, the “people” factor was identified as the most crucial factor. Overall, both the students and program implementers perceived the program to be effective in promoting holistic development in the program participants.

scholarly journals Variation in Faroese and the development of a spoken standard: In search of corpus evidence

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remco Knooihuizen
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Morphological Variation ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Linguistic Variables ◽  
Phonological Variation ◽  
Rapid Social Change ◽  
Variationist Sociolinguistics ◽  
Constrained Variation

Although Faroese exhibits extensive linguistic variation and rapid social change, the language is near-uncharted territory in variationist sociolinguistics. This article discusses some recent social changes in Faroese society in connection with language change, focusing in particular on the development of a de facto spoken standard, Central Faroese. Demographic mobility, media and education may be contributing to this development in different ways. Two linguistic variables are analysed as a first step towards uncovering the respective roles of standardisation, dialect levelling and dialect spread as contributing processes in the formation of Central Faroese: morphological variation in -st endings and phonological variation in -ir and -ur endings. The analysis confirms previously described patterns of geographically constrained variation, but no generational or stylistic differences indicative of language change are found, nor are there clear signs that informants use Central Faroese. The results may in part be due to the structure of the corpus used.

Social Change Model of Leadership Development: A 4-Year Program

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-147
Author(s):  
Deirdre P. Dixon ◽  
Ana Maia Wales ◽  
Julia R. Pennington ◽  
Shannon Calega
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Change Model ◽  
Leadership Program ◽  
Social Change Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Leadership Experiences ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
Personal Level

The social change model (SCM) of leadership development defines all students as potential leaders. Service acts as a powerful means for developing leadership skills within our students. After the 20th anniversary celebration by the International Leadership Association of the SCM, the authors wanted to illustrate how practice can inform research as they applied the model to a 4-year leadership program. The President’s Leadership Fellows is a 4-year program where all students have an opportunity to develop into leaders through classroom and cocurricular leadership experiences. Students actively participate in individual and group activities designed to experience social change and leadership theory on a practical, personal level. The students can then identify with the key elements of the SCM framework. This article outlines this leadership program and how it can help inform further research from practice.

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