Contents

pp iii-iv

List of figures and tables

pp v-v

About the contributors

pp vi-xii

one - The analysis of youth participation in contemporary literature: a European perspective

pp 1-18

Part One - Same word, same meaning? Participating in a changing world

pp 19-20

two - Youth participation: strong discourses, weak policies – a general perspective

pp 21-38

three - Participation and individualisation: the emergence of a new (political) consciousness?

pp 39-56

four - Informal education in an historical perspective: between an instrument of social education and a socioeducational practice

pp 57-74

Part Two - National and local policies for youth participation

pp 75-76

five - Celebrating pluralism: beyond established forms of youth participation

pp 77-92

six - Youth participation in the framework of the reformulation of local youth policies in Italy

pp 93-108

seven - Barriers to participation within a recessionary state: impediments confronting Irish youth

pp 109-124

eight - Youth participation and local social and youth policies in Spain

pp 125-140

Part Three - Extending spaces of participation

pp 141-142

nine - Interplay of youth culture, Web 2.0 and political participation in Europe: new reflections after the ‘youth quake’ in Northern Africa and the Middle East

pp 143-158

ten - Young people and online civic participation: key findings from a pan-European research project

pp 159-172

eleven - Young people and mental health: when ICT becomes a tool of participation in public health in Finland

pp 173-186

Part Four - Participation and learning

pp 187-188

twelve - Learning to participate or participating to learn?

pp 189-206

thirteen - Pupils’ participation in French secondary schools: the interplay between tradition and innovation

pp 207-224

Part Five - Outlook and conclusions

pp 225-226

fourteen - Participation or non-participation? Getting beyond dichotomies by applying an ideology-critical, a comparative and a biographical perspective

pp 227-244

Afterword: Dynamic and socially embedded: biographies of participation in youth

pp 245-254

Index

pp 255-264