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Abstract
This paper draws upon learning from three action research projects conducted as part of a Europe-wide project exploring young people’s social and political participation. Challenging dominant discourses about what ‘counts’ as participation and what does not, the paper explores how, through the action research projects, young people engaged in knowledge democracy in ‘new democratic arenas’. Building upon experiential knowing and creating knowledge and learning through practice, the young people explored their own democratic knowledge production, communication and engagement within a context of shifting discourses of participation, democratic engagement and active citizenship. The increasing preference of young people for more informal forms of participation as lived practice reflects a shift to young people constructing their own modes of participation and ‘remaking democracy’ in their own vision and according to their own needs. By working outside of the confines of normative assumptions of democratic practice and participation, young people exercised their own ‘political’ agency in response to their own priorities, interests and concerns and, in doing so, illustrated that new forms, understandings and practices of knowledge democracy can emerge that reflect the promise of inclusive democratic societies more meaningfully.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 347-361 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Educational Action Research |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 17 Feb 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 27 May 2019 |
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Grainne McMahon
- Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences - Senior Lecturer
- School of Human and Health Sciences
- Centre for Citizenship, Conflict, Identity and Diversity - Core Member
- Just Futures Centre - Associate Member
Person: Academic
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Barry Percy-Smith
- Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences - Professor of Childhood Youth and Participatory Practice
- School of Human and Health Sciences
- Just Futures Centre - Director
- Secure Societies Institute
Person: Academic
Activities
- 1 International Collaboration
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Goethe University Frankfurt
Barry Percy-Smith (Visiting Professor) & Grainne McMahon (Visiting Researcher)
May 2015 → Apr 2018Activity: External Appointments and Visits › International Collaboration
Projects
- 1 Finished
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PARTISPACE: Spaces and Styles of Participation. Formal, non-formal and informal possibilities of young people’s participation in European cities
Walther, A. & Percy-Smith, B.
1/05/15 → 30/04/18
Project: Research