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The ‘silver-lining’ of youth future in the new normal: Describing a new generation

Human Systems Management

BACKGROUND: While everything around us, especially the future of our youth generation, seems to be going wrong, there is always a ‘silver-lining’ that need to be discovered. Life has taught us always that with every major negative event, we have lots of positive opportunities that need to be discovered. OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to explore the new normal post-COVID-19 pandemic generation perspectives. METHODS: In this paper, the outcome of a global study of youth perception about their future in the post-COVID-19 pandemic is carried out and discussed in details. RESULTS: The results of the study help to foresight the type of the coming youth generation in the new normal and address their challenges and requirements in the new normal. The paper results lead to understanding what ways COVID-19 have affected and changed their life as a youth. The results show what shape the vision of youth toward. CONCLUSION: The outcome of this international youth-focused study opens lots of insights...

How they see it: young children and youth's perspectives about the future

How they see it: Young children and youth's perspectives about the future. Dooly, M Vallejo, C.; Oller, M.; Collados, E.; Villanueva, M (U. Autònoma Barcelona) Luna, A (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) In Dooly, M. (ed.) (2010) Their hopes, fears and reality: Working with children and youth for the future. Bern: Peter Lang.

Young people’s orientations to the future: navigating the present and imagining the future

This article discusses the findings of the Imagine Sheppey project (2013-14) which studied how young people are ‘oriented’ towards the future. The aim and approach of the project was to explore future imaginaries in a participatory, experimental, and performative way. Working with young people in a series of arts-based workshops, we intervened in different environments to alter the space as an experience of change – temporal, material, symbolic. We documented this process visually and made use of the images produced as the basis for elicitation in focus groups with a wider group of young people. In this article we discuss young people’s future orientations through the themes of reach, resources, shape, and value. In so doing, we reflect on the paths that our young respondents traced to connect their presents to what is next, what we call their modes of present-future navigation. We explore the qualities and characteristics of their stances within a wider reflection about how young people approach, imagine and account for the future.

Youth Futures: Comparative Research and Transformative Visions

Youth Futures: Comparative Research and Transformative Visions, 2002

Description Generally, youth are considered immature, irresponsible toward the future, cliquish, impressionistic, and dangerous toward self and others. They are considered as a mass market--two billion strong--the passive recipients of globalization. Most recently in OECD nations, youth have become fodder for political speeches--they are the problem that reflects both the failure of the welfare state (dependence on the state), the failure of globalization (unemployment), and postmodernism (loss of meaning and the crisis of the spirit). In the Third World, youth are seen not only as the problem, but equally as the force that can topple a regime (as in Yugoslavia). However, youth can also be seen as carriers of a new worldview, a new ideology. These and other views concerning youth are examined in this volume of comparative empirical research. Studies from around the world provide intriguing answers to questions about how youth see the future and their future roles. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, students, researchers, and policymakers involved with youth issues and future studies. Endorsements of Youth Futures "This book is astounding. In a time of rapid, world-wide transformation dealing with globalization, genomics, terrorism and much else, constructive and creative views of possible futures are essential. This book makes a monumental contribution on youth futures. While we are accustomed to hearing universal rhetoric on the importance of youth to the future, it seldom goes beyond platitudes. In 20 essays the authors present extensive theory and practice, including up to date trans-disciplinary research from around the world. This remarkable book will be a lasting resource for educators, policy makers, youth workers and all people committed to creating a better, brighter and wiser future for future generations." - Professor David K. Scott, Former Chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "Young people are increasingly viewed by scholars, practitioners, and policy makers as vital assets in the development of civil society. This book both gives voice to this positive conception of youth, and documents the power of young people to be active agents in actualizing their own healthy futures and in contributing to social justice and equity across the global community. This book is an impressive resource for all people concerned with understanding and enhancing the strengths of youth to build, sustain, and extend the quality of life in all nations of the world." - Professor Richard M. Lerner, Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science Tufts University, USA "This exciting and timely book is a milestone, bringing together for the first time international research on youth as both inheritors and creators of the future. Their hopes and fears for tomorrow, as reported here, are central to the future well-being of society - we would do well to listen to them. Essential reading for all those involved with young people, whether in formal or informal contexts, at home, in education or at work." - Professor David Hicks, School of Education, Bath Spa University College, UK. "The Youth Futures book by Gidley and Inayatullah is a very important contribution because there is so little cross cultural material on adolescence. It is a much needed antidote to our ethnocentric presentation of adolescence here in the States". - Professor David Elkind, Professor and Chair, Elliott Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, Medford. Author of Best-selling Book: The Hurried Child

Youths and their future perspectives

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research

This text was written from a workshop with young people from the city of Novo Hamburgo in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. We problematized the youths and their perspectives of future in an interface of education and work. The study uses the methodology of systematization of experiences to analyze the practices with eight young people in the workshop "Young People in Action" by approaching the themes: future, education and work and thus identify which elements are determinant for creating expectations for the future. The theoretical framework has an important contribution from popular education and sociology. We found that: the school and the family are structural tests that circumscribe the future expectations of young people; the young ones also presented dissonance in their tendencies as to what believe or act and they do not seem to have the habit of making plans about the future. The systematization of experiences showed to be very powerful, since it allows a constant ...

CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR YOUTH TODAY

Vinayasādhana Dharmaram Journal of Psycho-Spiritual Formation, 2022

Youth are in a period of transition from being a child who is dependent on their parents or caregivers to be an independent and self-reliant adult. The transition period is extensive and involves a lot of challenges and opportunities for the youth. The July 2022 Editorial wants to focus on the transition of youth within the psychological and spiritual setting in the world today. The world is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and is threatened with new viruses like Monkeypox over a short period. The present generation is coming to terms with viruses and understanding that these threats are a part of life. The world is also swimming against the tide concerning the economic crises and the rising cost of living worldwide. Open wars are still going on in Ukraine, and silent wars like the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria remain conscious in the minds of the youth. Rising global temperatures, unpredictable weather variations, and increasingly common extreme climate conditions like strong winds, cold and hot temperatures, dust storms, and heavy rains are also present in the youths' reality. Some offshoots of the new normal are the work-fromhome situations, events and reality going digital, online learning and teaching, and social media usage. Youth faced a set of general crises during the COVID-19 pandemic. The restricted mobility, deepened learning crisis, massive closures of education institutions abruptly, stunted growth of skill development, constraints in job opportunities, minimized business ventures, sudden reduction in income through salary cuts, and disruption in economic opportunities, to name a few. There was also the risk of domestic abuse, uncertainties about the future, delay in settling down in career, academic year loss, gaps in digital connectivity, diminished youth productivity, family stress,