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Youth: Responding to Lives

An International Reader

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Andrew Azzopardi

    1. University of Malta, Malta

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  • This text is constructed within an inter-disciplinary ‘spine’ thus reacting to epistemological darkness around young people’s endeavor to respond to their lives, discourses that have been conveniently endorsed but very often little understood and insufficiently theorized and developed.

Part of the book series: Studies in Inclusive Education (STUIE)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Azzopardi
    Pages 1-9

  3. Re-Vitalising the Youth Subculture Concept

    • Albert Bell
    Pages 11-26

  4. Serv(ic)Ing the Country?

    • Arun Kumar
    Pages 27-43

  5. Youth Activism

    • Andrew Azzopardi
    Pages 45-56

  6. Spatio-Temporal Concepts and the Sociophysical Realities Impinging on the Rehabilitation of Incarcerated Youth

    • Janice Formosa Pace, Saviour Formosa
    Pages 57-73

  7. Playing Grown-Up

    • Jenny Slater
    Pages 75-91

  8. Schools Promoting Community Involvement for Inclusion

    • Suzanne Gatt, Laura Sue Armeni
    Pages 93-108

  9. Inclusion is …: Musing and Conversations about the Meaning of Inclusion

    • Margo Alison Shuttleworth
    Pages 109-121

  10. Acceptance or Acceptability

    • Valerie L. Karr, Stephen Meyers
    Pages 123-135

  11. Constructing a Modern Disability Identity

    • Matthew J. Schuelka
    Pages 137-151

  12. The Power of Imagination in the Lives of Young People with Significant Disabilities

    • Janet S. Sauer
    Pages 153-177

  13. The World According to Sofie

    • Elisabeth De Schauwer, Hanne Vandenbussche, Sofie De Schryver, Geert Van Hove
    Pages 179-192

  14. Warning

    • Nancy La Monica, Vera Chouinard
    Pages 193-209

  15. Youth Lead

    • Alexis N. Petri, Ronda J. Jenson, Arden D. Day, Carl F. Calkins
    Pages 211-231

  16. How Thinking Against the Grain Teaches You to Love What School Hates

    • Naomi Folb
    Pages 233-244

  17. How Can I Lose My Shyness…?

    • Joanne Cassar
    Pages 245-258

  18. Developmental Denial

    • Matthew Wappett
    Pages 259-276

  19. Conceptualizing Students with “Significant Intellectual Disabilities”

    • Karen D. Schwartz
    Pages 277-291
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About this book

This book draws from various fields of knowledge, in an effort to theorise, create new and innovative conceptual platforms and develop further the hybrid idea of discourses around social inclusion and youth (from policy, practice and research perspectives). Youth: Responding to lives – An international handbook attempts to fill the persistent gap in the problematisation and understanding of inclusion, communalism, citizenship – that are intertwined within the complex youth debate. It writhes and wriggles to highlight the interconnections between the encounters, events and endeavors in young people’s lives. The focus of this edited work is also intended to help us understand how young people shape their development, involvement, and visibility as socio-political actors within their communities. It is this speckled experience of youth that remains one of the most electrifying stages in a community’s lifecycle. Contributors to this text have engaged with notions around identity and change, involvement, social behavior, community cohesion, politics and social activism. The chapters offer an array of critical perspectives on social policies and the broad realm of social inclusion/exclusion and how it affects young people. This book essentially analyses equal opportunities and its allied concepts, including inequality, inequity, disadvantage and diversity that have been studied extensively across all disciplines of social sciences and humanities but now need a youth studies ‘application’.

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  • University of Malta, Malta

    Andrew Azzopardi

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