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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNAT.

Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation

Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation

Combating Civic Deficit?

ISBN: 9781783489954
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Prominent studies and opinion polls often claim that young people are disengaged from political institutions, distrustful of politicians, and disillusioned about democracy. Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation challenges these political stereotypes by asking whether young people have been contributing to or rectifying our civic deficit. In particular, it examines the role of civics education in addressing the so-called crisis of democracy. Turning away from conventional suggestions often advocated by politicians and educators that offer civics education as the solution, the book advances an alternate approach to civics - one that acknowledges the increasingly diverse ways in which young people are both engaging and disengaging politically.

By Mark Chou, Jean-Paul Gagnon, Catherine Hartung, Lesley J. Pruitt

Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNAT.

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Format: PAPERBACK

Pages: 162

1. Preface. / 2. Disengaged: young people and political disengagement in Anglo-American democracies / 3. Democracy in Crisis: are young people to blame? / 4. Civics Education: defender or divider of democracy? / 5. Different Ways, Different Domains: the everyday politics of young people / 6. Brexit, Bono, and the Entrepreneurial Self: young people's participation as 'global citizens' / 7. Co-Designed: a new approach to civics and citizenship.

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