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Chapter 12 focuses on common non-formal educational practices and elaborates how they embody and instill contested views of citizenship and political justice. The issue of what constitutes a just distribution of power or the ability to influence is highly contested in democratic societies. The chapter discusses different political justice values underlying the operation of youth councils, community service, and youth activism. Youth councils embed a rights-based notion of political justice, through which children and young people learn about aspects of procedural justice, such as the right to have a voice and actively participate in decision-making. However, in youth councils, opportunities for experimentation are limited due to adults’ control. In contrast, community service instills a duty-based perspective on political justice, stressing active contribution to enhancing community or national welfare. Finally, youth activism furthers political justice as praxis, whereby justice is not just learned, but its meanings are (re)interpreted, (re)created, and enacted. |
