Reingard Spannring - Youth and Participation

Reingard Spannring Institute for Educational Sciences

University of Innsbruck reingard.spannring@uibk.ac.at

Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften

Youth Participation

INTERNAL

EXTERNAL

INDIVIDUAL

Experience

Behaviour

COLLECTIVE

Culture

Systems

Behaviour

Systems

Culture

Experience

Participatory experience: meaning making frames

GREEN: Relationship Communitarian, egalitarian, consensus oriented Participation: dialogic, co-creating

RED: Success

The individual wants to be independent and in control:

Material success and social status are important Participation: individualised, unconventional, elite-

challenging; interest groups and lobbying

BLUE: Truth Order in life and society are important; Hierarchical and authoritarian structures;

dogmatic thinking; Participation: authority-led participation

Youth Participation

Education