Use of free time by young people, and social inclusion and exclusion in Lebanon

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Kenneth Roberts ◽  
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Siyka Kovacheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Free Time

What Is Social Inclusion? Insights From Interventions With Youth Across Migration Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Colette Daiute ◽  
Bengi Sullu ◽  
Tünde Kovács-Cerović
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
21St Century Education ◽  
Behavioral Assessments ◽  
Supportive Interventions ◽  
Migration Systems

Social inclusion is a goal of 21st-century education and social welfare, yet research with violently displaced youth leaves gaps in its meaning. Social inclusion, a societal aim, lacks the perspectives of youth at its center. Given the pressures and power relations involved in learning how young people think and feel about social injustices and the support they need, developmental researchers must find innovative ways to study youth experiences and intentions in relation to environments, especially environments that threaten young lives. Emerging research highlights how displaced youth, peers along their journeys, and adults guiding supportive interventions make audible the meaning of social inclusion. Policy paradigms would benefit from research on sense-making in interventions rather than from emphasizing behavioral assessments and assimilation to local norms, as implied by social inclusion.

scholarly journals Proposal for a Polysportive Framework with a Community Center Integrated in Petrópolis - Manaus-AM

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 485-500
Author(s):  
Mariana Ribeiro Alves ◽  
Mazurkevs Matos dos Santos ◽  
Igor Bezerra de Lima ◽  
David Barbosa de Alencar
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Drugs And Crime

The objective of this work is to propose a project of a multi-sport court with integrated community center for the community square of Petrópolis neighborhood, located at Marginal Street, without number, Manaus - Am. Being an important reference point in social inclusion and life promotion healthy, the proposal also aims to contribute to the valorization of the urban space. The community square of the Petrópolis neighborhood has no structure to practice multisport exercises. The purpose of the proposal is to provide a suitable place for physical activities, provide an environment for residents' meetings, especially encourage young people to practice sports, in order to keep them away from drugs and crime.

scholarly journals Inclusive Leisure as a Resource for Socio-Educational Intervention during the COVID-19 Pandemic with Care Leavers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8851
Author(s):  
Jorge Díaz-Esterri ◽  
Ángel De-Juanas ◽  
Rosa Goig-Martínez ◽  
Francisco Javier García-Castilla
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Human Contact ◽  
Care Leavers

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a reduction in leisure activities involving human contact. Social isolation has increased, particularly amongst vulnerable individuals with a fragile support network, as is the case with young people who have left care. The aim of the present research was to identify socio-educational proposals and interventions implemented during the pandemic pertaining to leisure as a form of promoting social inclusion of these young people. To this end, a qualitative study was carried out in which twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with young people who had left care system, in addition to fifteen interviews with professionals working with this group when delivering socio-educational interventions. Discourse analysis revealed that isolation due to the health crisis had greater repercussions in normalised settings in which leisure activity was reduced with this increasing risk of social inclusion amongst these young people. Proposals and experiences emerging from this setting provide evidence that socio-educational interventions targeting leisure facilitate social inclusion. In this sense, future lines of research are suggested to optimise the outcomes of socio-educational interventions within this group.

scholarly journals O Papel da Recreação e do Lazer na Inclusão Social de Adolescentes

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
Virgilio Abrahão Junior ◽  
Julia Alejandra Pezuk
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Program ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Recreational Activities ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Resumo Atualmente no Brasil é possível observar uma parcela da população jovens, principalmente nas classes sociais mais baixas, sujeitos a situações que acarretam maior susceptibilidade para se envolver com drogas, prostituição, crimes, gravidez e doenças sexualmente transmissíveis. Diversos fatores psicossociais são necessários para que os adolescentes passem pela adolescência sem a necessidade deste tipo de envolvimentos. A recreação e o lazer podem ser usados como instrumento para facilitar a inclusão social e ao mercado de trabalho de jovens marginalizados. O impacto emocional positivo do uso da recreação e do lazer favorece o bem-estar e auxilia na inclusão social de adolescentes, e possibilitam o uso dessas ferramentas para serem explorados em eventos e atividades recreativas. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo mostrar a importância do desenvolvimento de projetos sobre recreação e o lazer para a inclusão social de jovens. Para isso é relatada a experiência com o Programa Social realizado na cidade de Guarulhos/SP intitulado Programa Oportunidade ao Jovem, que busca a qualificação profissional dos jovens da cidade que se encontram em situação de risco e pobreza, e que estão em geral excluídos da sociedade. Mostramos aqui que a inclusão social por meio de programas sociais usando atividades recreativas facilita a inserção social de jovens marginalizados e devem ser consideradas nas políticas públicas. Pois ainda permitem que adolescentes em situação econômica precária tenham a possibilidade de exercer uma profissão na área de recreação ao término dos cursos dos programas, impactando significativamente na vida desses jovens.   Palavras-chave: Programa Social. Agente de Recreação. Políticas Públicas.   Abstract In Brazil it is possible to observe a portion of the young population, mainly in the lower social classes, who are subject to situations that cause greater susceptibility to get involved with drugs, prostitution, crimes, pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Several psychosocial factors are necessary for adolescents to go through adolescence without the need for this type of involvement. Recreation can be used as an instrument to facilitate social inclusion and the labor market for marginalized youth. The positive emotional impact of recreation favors well-being and assists in the social inclusion of adolescents and enables the use of these tools to be explored in events and recreational activities. In this context, this paper aims to show the importance of developing projects on recreation for the social inclusion of young people. For this, the experience with the Social Program carried out in the city of Guarulhos / SP entitled Programa Oportunidade ao Jovem, which seeks the professional qualification of young people in the city who are at risk and poverty, and who are in general excluded from society, is reported. We show here that social inclusion through social programs using recreational activities facilitates the social insertion of marginalized youth and should be considered in public policies. Because they still allow adolescents in a precarious economic situation to have the possibility of exercising a profession in the area of recreation at the end of the program courses, significantly impacting the lives of these young people   Keywords: Social Program. Recreation Agent. Public Policy.

scholarly journals Social Inclusion, Participation and Citizenship in Contexts of Neoliberalism: Examples of Adult Education Policy and Practice with Young People in the UK, The Netherlands and Ireland

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
Nathalie Huegler ◽  
Natasha Kersh
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Perspectives ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis chapter focuses on contexts where public discourses regarding the education of young adults have been dominated by socio-economic perspectives, with a focus on the role of employment-related learning, skills and chances and with active participation in the labour market as a key concern for policy makers. A focus on ‘employability’ alone has been linked to narrow conceptualisations of participation, inclusion and citizenship, arising in the context of discourse shifts through neoliberalism which emphasise workfare over welfare and responsibilities over rights. A key critique of such contexts is that the focus moves from addressing barriers to participation to framing social inclusion predominantly as related to expectations of ‘activation’ and sometimes, assimilation. Key target groups for discourses of activation include young people not in education, employment or training (‘NEET’), while in- and exclusion of migrant and ethnic minority young people are often framed within the complex and contradictory interplay between discourses of assimilation and experiences of discrimination. These developments influence the field of adult education aimed at young people vulnerable to social exclusion. An alternative discourse to ‘activation’ is the promotion of young people’s skills and capabilities that enables them to engage in forms of citizenship activism, challenging structural barriers that lead to exclusion. Our chapter considers selected examples from EduMAP research in the UK, the Netherlands and Ireland which indicate that as well as framing the participation of young people as discourses of ‘activation’, adult education can also enable and facilitate skills related to more activist forms of citizenship participation.

scholarly journals Social Engagement among Migrant Youth: Attitudes and Meanings

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudmila Kirpitchenko ◽  
Fethi Mansouri
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Youth Attitudes ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This article explores migrant young people’s engagement, participation and involvement in socially meaningful activities, events and experiences. This type of social participation is approached in the social inclusion literature using the notions of social capital and active citizenship (Bourdieu, 1986; Coleman, 1988; Putnam, 1993; Putnam, 2000). A key objective, therefore, is to explore the attitudes, values and perceptions associated with social participation for young people. They include the meanings that social engagement has for migrant young people, along with drivers and inhibitions to active participation. The article focuses on both the motives for being actively engaged as well as perceived barriers to social engagement. It is based on a large study conducted among migrant young people of African, Arabic-speaking and Pacific Islander backgrounds in Melbourne and Brisbane, and presents both quantitative and qualitative (discursive) snapshots from the overall findings, based on interviews and focus groups. While many studies have centred on the management of migration and migrants, this article draws attention to the individuals’ active position in negotiating, interpreting and appropriating the conditions of social inclusion. Accounting for the multidimensional and multilayered nature of social inclusion, the paper highlights the heuristic role of social engagement in fostering the feelings of belonging and personal growth for migrant youth.

scholarly journals Práticas socioeducativas e jovens no sul de Minas Gerais (p. 155-174)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Antonio Groppo ◽  
Lívia Silva Macedo
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Young People ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
The South ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

O campo das práticas socioeducativas, combinando o educativo com objeti-vos que visam à intervenção social, tem crescido no Brasil nos últimos anos,desenvolvendo-se a partir da educação popular e da educação não formal,vindo a predominar nele o paradigma da “inclusão social” dos “excluídos”.O artigo caracteriza as práticas socioeducativas para adolescentes e jovens emum município do sul de Minas Gerais, por meio de levantamento de dadose entrevistas, e também as concepções de jovem e juventude, segundo asgestoras de cinco dessas práticas. Reiteram-se características do campo en-contradas em outros locais pesquisados, incluindo concepções estereotipadassobre a juventude. Contudo, práticas heterodoxas vindas de movimentos so-ciais e da universidade pública indicam possibilidades criativas nesse campo,incluindo uma noção de jovem mais consistente, na qual ele é tido como umsujeito social.Palavras-chave: Juventude. Educação não formal. Movimentos sociais.AbstractThe field of socio-educative practices, combining education with goals aimedat social intervention has grown in Brazil in recent years, developing from thepopular education and non-formal education, coming to dominate it the para-digm of “social inclusion”. The article characterizes the socio-educative prac-tices for adolescents and young people in a city in the South of Minas Gerais,Brazil, through data collection and interviews. Also, young concepts and youthunder the managers of five of these practices. They reiterate to field characteris-tics found in other areas surveyed, including stereotyped conceptions of youth.However, heterodox practices coming from social movements and public uni-versity indicate creative possibilities in this field, including a sense of youth moreconsistent, in which the young is regarded as a social subject.Keywords: Youth. Non-formal education. Social movements.ResumenEl campo de las prácticas socioeducativas, combinando el educativo con obje-tivos que apuntan a la intervención social, ha crecido en Brasil en los últimosaños, desarrollándose a partir de la educación popular y de la educación noformal, venido a predominar en él el paradigma de la “inclusión social” Delos “excluidos”. El artículo caracteriza las prácticas socioeducativas para ado-lescentes y jóvenes en un municipio del sur de Minas Gerais, por medio de laencuesta de datos y entrevistas. También, las concepciones de joven y juventudsegún las gestoras de 5 de estas prácticas. Se reiteran características del campoencontradas en otros lugares investigados, incluyendo concepciones estereoti-padas sobre la juventud. Sin embargo, prácticas heterodoxas provenientes demovimientos sociales y de la universidad pública indican posibilidades creativasen este campo, incluyendo una noción de joven más consistente, en la cual esconsiderado un sujeto social.Palabras clave: Juventud. Educación no formal. Movimientos sociales.

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