Young People and the Struggle for Participation: Contested Practices, Power and Pedagogies in Public Spaces - Paperback

by Andreas Walther (Editor), Janet Batsleer (Editor), Patricia Loncle (Editor)

Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in public spaces and what these spaces mean to them, individually and collectively. The book discusses how different spaces and places structure and are in turn structured by young peoples' activities.

Author Biography

Andreas Walther is a Professor for Educational Sciences and Director of the Research Centre 'Education and Coping in the Life Course' at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Janet Batsleer is a Reader in Education and Principal Lecturer in Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Patricia Loncle is a Professor of Sociology at the French High School of Public Health, Rennes, France.

Axel Pohl is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Work and Social Spaces at the FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland.