Critical Youth Studies Reader: Preface by Paul Willis, ISBN-13: 978-1433121203

Critical Youth Studies Reader: Preface by Paul Willis, ISBN-13: 978-1433121203

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• 564 pages

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers; New edition edition (July 11, 2014)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 1433121204

• ISBN-13: 978-1433121203

This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume consider essential issues such as class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural capital, and schooling in creating a dialogue about and a conversation with youth. In a society that continues to devalue, demonize, and pathologize young women and men, leading names in the academy and youth communities argue that traditional studies of youth do not consider young people themselves. Engaging with today’s young adults in formal and informal pedagogical settings as an act of respect, social justice, and transgression creates a critical pedagogical path in which to establish a meaningful twenty-first century critical youth studies.

“Material and social conditions change at a colossal pace everywhere. This book gives a wide panoramic view. We face a bewildering new world of contradictory influences, profound crises of the old and tumultuous birth of the new. Through what cultural mediations does the necessary now connect with the voluntary under new conditions and at multiple sites across the world?

Critical practices and methodologies, reflexive and comparative theoretical work and debate as offered in this book offer a grounds for understanding the human unfoldings of this colossal historical canvas from the position of youth.” —From the preface by Paul Willis, author of Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs