ENGAGING YOUTH: Connecting to Identity, Place, Community, and Nature for a Sustainable Future

By Kate Aubin

The world is facing an interrelated set of so-called "wicked problems:" systemic racial and social injustice, planet altering climate change, and widening income inequality. These problems are already ripping apart nations, upending social structures, and causing widespread misery. They'll disproportionately affect youth and especially youth of color going forward, yet most discussions of solutions to these issues don't consider the potential for youth leadership to address them.In Engaging Youth, Kate Aubin argues that it is vital for youth to assume leadership roles. She examines how to cultivate civic engagement and agency among youth by encouraging positive youth development and ways to get young people to reflect on their relationships with nature, their connections to community, their understanding of personal identity, and their sense of place. There is hope to meet the challenge of these wicked problems, and it starts with giving youth the tools, knowledge, and confidence to lead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1984343432
• ISBN13: 9781984343437
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"