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Key Concept in Youth Civic Engagement
FOR and Leadership Civic Engagement
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YOUTH
OVERVIEW
TCivic
O DEngagement,
A Y It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through
both political and nonpolitical processes.” Volunteerism is one defining characteristic of civic
engagement in that most if not all such activities are discretionary.
ACTIVATION
In Ten minutes (15mins), write your ideas about the difference between Youth Civic
Engagement and Leadership Civic Engagement.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
The term civic engagement (CE) does not have a standard definition; definitions of civic
engagement vary over discipline, organization, country context, and person to person. In
addition, the concepts associated with it are related to the interests of the definer, and the
disciplines he/she is grounded in (Adler and Goggin 2005; Meinzen-Dick, Di Gregorio and
McCarthy, 2004); civic engagement exists in a space that brings together diverse social science
disciplines such as sociology, political science and economics. Concepts related to CE include
social change, community involvement, political involvement and community service (Adler and
Goggin 2005). While the concepts vary across organizations, the authors of this report found it
useful to highlight two main aspects of the definition: political activities and community service
activities. Civic Engagement can include volunteering in a community service project, social
learning, being involved in an organization working to address a social issue, voting, and joining
with others to raise concerns (Mercy Corps 2012; Adler and Goggin 2005).
A general definition that might encompass different aspects of the concept is: “Civic
engagement describes how an active citizen participates in the life of a community in order to
improve conditions for others or to help shape the community’s future” (Adler and Goggin,
2005, 238). For example, civic engagement could be a single individual advocating for youth-
friendly reproductive services at their local health clinic, or a group of youth advocating to the
Board of Education in their region for comprehensive sexual education, or youth councils who
interact with adults in government, or participate in trainings to act as peer mentors on the topic.
This wide range of ways to engage, and the degree to which it is possible in various contexts,
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shows that civic engagement can encompass both traditional political engagement, such as
voting or participating in politics, and social or community methods, such as volunteering. Other
definitions of civic engagement, such as the ones quoted below from Adler and Goggin (2005,
238-9), were more specific to the program being implemented by the definer:
All definitions of civic engagement involve some form of active participation going beyond
civic awareness, or the understanding of civic duty (Winkler n.d.). Some of the main concepts of
civic engagement are defined below:
Citizenship: involves a universal “compact of rights and obligations that bind citizens
and states” shaped by the local circumstances and contexts. In development contexts,
states are often unable to deliver on their end of the bargain and provide certain
services. Mediating organizations can engage young people in roles and activities that
allow them to become active citizens (Kassimir 2010).
Service programs:
programs that involve citizens, usually youth, in order to support national development
(Israel 2011).
Social capital: the shared knowledge, understandings, norms, rules, and expectations
that groups of individuals bring to recurrent activities. These norms are important for
people’s livelihoods, development programs and economic growth (Meinzen-Dick and
McCarthy 2004).
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Collective action: joint action by a group of people towards achieving a common goal
(MeinzenDick, and McCarthy 2004).
1. Youth Engagement
is the result when young people are involved in responsible, challenging actions to create
positive social change. This means involving youth in planning and in making decisions that
affect themselves and others.
Youth engagement happens when young people have sustained connections anywhere in
their life. Youth engagement can happen throughout the lives of children and youth, including
within themselves, in the immediate world around them, throughout society in general, and
across the entirety of the world. The sustained connections they make can be emotional,
psychological, or cognitive and can happen personally and socially.
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school; or by joining gangs, hanging out with friends on the streets, or playing pickup basketball
at night and on the weekends.
Planning
Invite young people to provide ideas for program activities and events, offer suggestions for
recruitment and outreach, or map out new topic areas.
Implementing
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Give young people concrete roles and responsibilities during programming, such as group leader,
facilitator or co-facilitator of a program activity, manager of logistics (prepare material, set up,
refreshments, etc.), or project leader and organizer.
Program responsibilities and roles that a young person could carry out include these examples:
Community/neighborhood events
Mentoring of younger youth
Peer education
Manager of a youth-run café or teen center
Leader/captain of a sports team
Evaluating/Reflecting
Engage young people in reflecting on the program or program activities through focus groups,
surveys, interviews, or speak-outs. To ensure that input from young people is solicited regularly,
institutionalize the practice by forming youth advisory groups or developing youth as evaluators.
2. Leadership Engagement
Achieving employee engagement is a commitment that starts with leadership.
Every leader in the organization has an impact—good or bad—on the teams they lead,
and this influences individual engagement.
TASK 1
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Ask yourself on the things you already Know, what you Want to learn and What you Learned in
this topic. Write your answers on the space provided.
KNOW WANT
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TASK 2 Supporting Research:
Gather Research Information on a selected article focusing on the problem for Youth
Engagement and Leadership Engagement to community.
Explain Briefly.
Submit this not later than October 29, 2020 thru my email natividadramon79@yahoo.com
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Self and Module Check
How was your experience? Tell me about it. (draw your response below.
MODULE EVALUATION
SELF EVALUATION
Module is learner-friendly.
I learned a lot from this module Comprehensive and easy to
understand
Answer Answer
References:
CWTS/LTS 1
Roberto G. De Chavez, DBA, SPBE, FRIEdr
Goggle.com
wikipidia
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