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Video Submission - Barry Smith
No full textBarry Smith, MUW Professor, shows his support for Banned Books Week by reading a selection from Bradbury\u27s Fahrenheit 451 and discussing what the book means to him
Rethinking Visual Arts-Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic
No full textThis inaugural special issue of ‘Beyond the Text’ brings together a collection of visual arts (animation, creative and fine art, film, photographs, and zines) produced by children, young people, families, artists, and academics as part of co-created research during the 2020–2021 coronavirus pandemic. Our aim, in making these pieces available in this new publication format, is to illustrate the potential of visual arts as a form of co-creation and knowledge exchange which can transcend the challenges of researching ‘at a distance’, enable participants and co-researchers to share their stories, and support different ways of knowing for academic, policy, and public audiences. This is not to suggest that such methods offer transparent windows into participants’ worlds. As the reflections from the contributing authors consider, visual arts outputs leave room for audience interpretations, making them vulnerable to alternative readings, generating challenges and opportunities about how much it is possible to know about another and what is ethical to share. It is to these issues of ethics, representation, and voice that this special issue attends, reflecting on the possibilities of arts-based approaches for knowledge generation and exchange in and beyond the coronavirus pandemic.</p
Children's voice and perspectives : the struggle for recognition, meaning and effectiveness
No full textA Fig Leaf for Action: Critical perspectives on Youth Policy in the UK
No full textThis paper discusses the changing approaches that governments in the UK have adopted in response to youth issues and the extent to which these are reflected in dominant social constructions of youth. Our discussion offers a perspective on youth policy in the UK in 2014 set within an historical context with a particular focus on policy from England. We outline the debates and issues facing youth policy as a result of the opportunities and tensions created by recent transformations of local authority services and changes to the way in which youth work is funded and consider the implications of this for young people. Finally we consider some of the key elements to youth policy in the current era of austerity.
The picture of youth policy in the UK highlights the extent to which ideological crusades based on moral panics and deficit models of youth have given rise to a stream of policies which have successively failed to connect with the lives of young people whilst redirecting the blame onto young people themselves. We argue that constantly changing and underfunded initiatives have done little more than provide a ‘fig leaf’ to provide the illusion that something is being done
From Global Challenge to Local Efficacy: rediscovering human agency in learning for survival
No full textThere is an assumption underlying education for sustainable development that all we need do is learn the skills and knowledge to live sustainably. Yet, many already know the issues and know we should act, but we don’t. This article argues that a key part of the problem is that we live according to myths and daydreams perpetuated by a growth oriented global economic system such that ecological collapse remains surreal in our lives. The article argues that for any meaningful progress to be made in response to environmental challenges we need to reconnect with the roots of our existence, become fully conscious of the contradiction between the living daydreams of our lives and the reality of our relationship with nature and become more critically self-aware about our choices, actions and impacts in our everyday lives at a local level. This requires a different approach to education
Mary Elizabeth Rose Duclos Barry Smith
No full textPhotograph of Mary Elizabeth Rose Duclos Barry Smith.
Mary Elizabeth Rose Duclos Barry Smith (1844-1925) was the daughter of Mary Stedman Owen and Jonathan Antoine Barry, a member of the firm of Barry & Bryant in Wilmington, NC. She married Harry Hungerford Smith, a civil war veteran. Mary is the granddaughter of James Porterfield Owen
Introduction
No full textMoving forward thinking and practice in relation to children and young people’s participation and engagement has never been more urgent. This means going beyond simply seeking to involve children and young people in existing structures and processes to realise visions of new democratic alternatives. Faced with barriers and mistrust of mainstream political processes, many young people around the world are seeing new spaces for democracy in local and trans-local communities, nationally, globally and digitally, to speak out, organise and exercise their voice and democratic rights. Irrespective of boundaries and scale, there is a clear groundswell in young people turning away from established democratic structures and processes and engaging in new forms of child and youth-led participation initiatives rooted in everyday struggles and a deeper moral commitment in remaking democracy
Recommended from our members
[AFROTC member Barry Smith]
No full textPhotograph of North Texas State University AFROTC unit Professional Officer Course member Barry Smith in uniform
Recommended from our members
[AFROTC member Barry Smith]
No full textPhotograph of North Texas State University AFROTC unit Professional Officer Course member Barry Smith in uniform
Action research with young people:possibilities and ‘messy realities’
No full textThis paper reflects on the experience of using participatory action research (PAR) in a formal, non-formal and informal setting. The paper outlines key tenets of action research and provides a letter review of the literature concerning the use of PAR in youth research. Drawing on three case studies, we provide an honest account of some of the realities involved in realizing the promise of participatory action research in practice. The central focus is on how to do it in practice, the challenges of doing so are discussed in action research
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