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This book offers a unique and original study of youth organizations in the cities of London, Toronto, and Vancouver that provide creative and cultural learning opportunities for socially marginalized young people. There is a history of building significant institutions in many cities around the world to create unusual social and educational opportunities for young people who are frequently at the margins of society. The book tells the stories of a number of institutions bringing into the open extraordinary tales of social entrepreneurialism, innovative aesthetic, artistic practice, and dynamic…mehr

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This book offers a unique and original study of youth organizations in the cities of London, Toronto, and Vancouver that provide creative and cultural learning opportunities for socially marginalized young people. There is a history of building significant institutions in many cities around the world to create unusual social and educational opportunities for young people who are frequently at the margins of society. The book tells the stories of a number of institutions bringing into the open extraordinary tales of social entrepreneurialism, innovative aesthetic, artistic practice, and dynamic progressive education and learning. Youthsites is both a cultural history of urban youth and social change and a timely celebration of extraordinary individuals at a time of declining welfare provision.
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Autorenporträt
Stuart R. Poyntz is Professor and Director of the School of Communication and Co-Director of the Community Engaged Research Initiative at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Julian Sefton-Green is Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published 15 books, including recent contributions such as The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age (New York University Press, 2016), Learning Identities, Education and Community: Young Lives in the Cosmopolitan City (Cambridge University Press 2016) and Learning Beyond the School: International Perspectives on the Schooled Society (Routledge, 2018). Heather Fitzsimmons Frey is an Assistant Professor of Arts and Cultural Management at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada.