CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Compulsory Education, Childrens Hospital, Critical Role
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Young people have a history of resisting the state: policy is often about: intersection, intervention, and innovation via state tools. Require money, information, legislation: youth policy refer to specific understandings, approaches, methods related to systemic youth issues. Pag e | 2: notion of futurity. Even progressive, youth-centric policies emphasize this concept: youth as human becomings not human beings. What is the roles of the state: policy is a messy process (white & albanese, 2011). Policies may clash and change: youth are not merely a biological category. Youth: not a homogeneous group: age and stage of development b. family status, gender, ethnicity e. race, engaged in school or not, sexuality (ies, sense of youth" culture. Youth policy: addressing complexities: challenges exist in establishing youth policy due to the lack of homogeneity amongst youth, lack of a consistent definition of youth; age of majority differs across provinces (18 in on, pei, qc;