Youth voice

Youth voice is a fairly common neologism to refers to the distinct ideas, opinions, attitudes, knowledge, and actions of young people as a collective body.

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Neologism - Ideas - Opinion - Attitude - Knowledge - Action - Young people

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The term is often intended to synapsize a diversity of perspectives and experiences, regardless of backgrounds, identities, and cultural differences. Alternately, the plural forms of either word are usually intended to recognize plurality and diversity of experience, as in youths voice or youth voices. The concept is traditionally acknowledged by community and classroom educators and youth workers; it is increasingly employed by politicians, researchers, and mainstream media.

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Youth voice has many applications, as mentioned above. In communities, youth voice is heard in community youth development, Youth activism, and Youth councils; in schools, youth voice is heard in service learning, democratic schooling methods, student activism, and student-led school change. are all common applications. Other methods for acknowledging youth voice include engaging young people through neighborhood planning, program evaluation, community organizing, government advisory boards, nonprofit leadership, news reporting, and paticipatory action research.

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Community youth development - Youth activism - Youth council - Service learning - Democratic schooling methods - Student activism - Student-led school change - Paticipatory action research

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A number of nonprofit, educational, and governmental programs around the world claim to advocate and/or engage youth voice in a variety of ways. They include The Freechild Project, YouthBuild USA, National Youth Rights Association, and youth councils around the world. The United Nations has heavily proponented youth voice through its Youth Unit, as well as the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Articles 5 and 12. A number of academics, authors, and advocates also proponent youth voice, including sociologist Margaret Mead, cultural critic Henry Giroux, activist/author William Upski Wimsatt, critical pedagogue Peter McLaren, and anti-racist/feminist/anti-imperialist theorist bell hooks.

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The Freechild Project - YouthBuild USA - National Youth Rights Association - Youth council - United Nations - Convention on the Rights of the Child - Margaret Mead - Henry Giroux - William Upski Wimsatt - Peter McLaren - Bell hooks

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