CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Karl Mannheim, Kaski District, Soweto Uprising
15 Mar 2016
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Lecture 9 child and youth political engagement. Children are conceived as belonging to the domestic sphere (and to schools), and thus not political. Children are conceived as not capable of understanding politics. Formal political institutions exclude children (elections, parliaments, parties, etc. ), but attempts to mobilize youth for their own ends. Other political institutions have different ways of functioning. Some teach children to be passive in politics, while still involving children. Crc (12. 1) specifies for children"s right to be heard, but politics implies that what they say ought to influence the world they live in . Children may be excluded from formal politics, but they have consistently shown an ability to be political. Example: in april, 2013, students at bal mandir school in kaski, nepal, protested physical abuse to education ministry; principal and teachers were fired. Children have played the role of vanguard in numerous political movements. Karl mannheim historical events produce shared generational consciousness in young people.
