Understanding Youth
Perspectives, Identities & Practices
- Mary Jane Kehily - The Open University
Understanding Youth: Perspectives, Identities and Practices addresses the changing context and nature of youth, encouraging readers to understand different conceptualizations of youth, issues of identity and the key social practices that give shape to young people's lives in the contemporary period.
Key Features:
- Introduces the key perspectives, identities, and practices involved in understanding youth
- Offers a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to young people's lives
- Draws upon rich biographical case studies of young people, emphasizing young people's own voices
- Provides a comprehensive overview of youth in the late modernity
- Presents a clear and accessible approach to complex issues
This book will become an essential text within several of our modules on our various community youth work programmes. Split into meaningful sections with easy to read and illustrated chapters, our students have responded well to this text. In my own teaching Chapter 1 gives a very valuable introduction to cultural perspectives on youth. I make very clear to students that this text is the starting point for their reading as it will guide them in the right direction.
Mary Jane Kehily's Understanding Youth is an extremely useful undergraduate text. Its problem based focus and wealth of examples and excercises, coupled with decent photographic illustrations, make it an ideal teaching resource. Its well stocked thematic repertoire usefully demonstrates to students some of the range of methods and theories available in the study of youth.
Useful exercises for reflection and embedding learning.
Sage College Publishing
