Youth and democracy: Participation for personal, relational, and collective well‐being

Mentoring Undergraduate Students

“…At their core, these mentoring programs reflect a social justice orientation where a key aim is to reduce inequities in developmental and academic outcomes. The aims of these programs are to increase a sense of empowerment, well-being, and self-determination among underrepresented students (Evans & Prilleltensky, 2007). For example, the Posse Program (Posse Foundation, n.d.) grants scholarships to public high school students through its partnerships with colleges and universities and places recipients in groups of 10 (or posses) as a strategy for cultivating peer support throughout their undergraduate experiences.…”

Patrones de interacción y grupos de discusión política en las redes personales de jóvenes colombianos

“…este factor, es probable que la implicación temprana en actividades participativas también contribuya a mantener los valores de libertad, justicia y transparencia que deben primar en sociedades democráticas (Evans y Prilleltensky 2007). Con independencia del contexto, de la población y de la problemática que origine la iniciativa participativa, la literatura indica que la decisión de participar se ve fuertemente influenciada por el entramado de relaciones en el que los sujetos se encuentran inmersos.…”

Stagnation in Identity-based Community: The Experience of Buton Youth Community

“…Moreover, a new social experience of youth is even more shaped by the imperatives of mobilization than by roles, and by the imperatives of communication rather than by function (Evans and Prilleltensky 2007;Lerner 2005). They are facing an unstable role and status when they were understood in the context of generation and class, because both of these contexts had been experiencing deinstitutionalization and desocialisation (McDonald 1999, p.4-5).…”