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Youth Leadership
A Myth or Reality
[email protected]. of Youth and Community Studies
University of Malta
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Paradigm Shift
From:
Young people as potential social problems
To:
Young people as a potential community asset (Little 2002)
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Today
- Empowerment- Emancipation- Participation in decision making- Active Citizenship
(Gore, 2007; Skott-Myre 2005; Haikella 2001)
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Youth Participation and Leadership
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Myth 1
Calling young people leaders makes them leaders
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Adults may have different motivations to create illusion that young people are involved.
These range from: - legal obligations; - to obtain funds for their own projects; - to a personal need of power.
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Reality 1
Young people are leaders when they initiate, design and manage
and
involve adults in the decision making (Hart 1992)
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Myth 2
Leadership can’t be taught. The lucky ones are born with the ‘right stuff’.
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Reality 2
Young people can be taught the skills and behaviours needed to be effective leaders through learning by doing.
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Leadership is a collaborative, social andrelational activity.
It should be understood as a collective capacity rather than an individual trait.
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Leadership is an educational process.
Effective youth leadership is a process that engenders trust and is the result of relationships that focus on the interactions of youth and adults
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WHY?
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WHY?
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The rapid change leads us to be aware of only part of the young people’s reality
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Benefits for Young People
- a contributor to academic success- improves mental health- higher self esteem- increase in self efficacy- improves social justice- strengthens the ability to contribute to society- ability to work with others and in diverse environments
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Benefits for adults
- become more competent in the youth field
- more able to adapt themselves for young people’s needs
- more satisfaction from their work
- more energy and enthusiasm
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As a result REAL youth leadership contributes to co-learning and inter-generational learning.
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Reality 1
Young people are leaders when they initiate, design and manage and involve adults in the decision making
And new learning communities are developed where learning takes place in a non-formal and
informal way.
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Effectiveness is achieved through
complex thinking, full commitment from all stakeholders and a mindset which sees
differently and is ready to make a twist towards a true
partnership between young people and
adults
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Myth 2
Leaders
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Positive thoughts cannot exist in a
vacuum. They must be shared with all to be
effective.......just as leaders - young and old must share parts
of themselves with others to be effective.