Social Justice
Summer 1999, v15-3 Site Optimized for Netscape and Explorer 3.0+
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Youth Governance Youth governance is a movement whose time has come. In this issue's Focus area New Designs explores the history, challenges, and opportunites in the youth governance movement with articles by Ben Smilovitz [the International Alliance for Student Activism]; Maria Nagorski [Youth as Resources], Anne Hoover and Amy Weisenbach, [Community Partnerships with Youth and 4-H], and Caius Brandao [the National Movement of Street Boys and Girls in Brazil].		A Perspective on Youth and Social Justice in South Africa -Steve Mokwena A native of South Africa, IYF's Steve Mokwena describes his country's quest to build a free, equal, peaceful, and democractic society, and the challenges for youth in the post-Apartheid era.
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Articles
Youth as Resources -Maria T. Nagorski Youth Leading Now!: Securing a Place at the Table -Anne B. Hoover, Amy Weisenbach Youth and Justice -William Ayers, Therese Quinn Learning to Lead: Building on Young People's Desire to "Do Something" -Joel Westheimer, Joseph Kahne, Bethany Rogers Teaching and Healing -Sister Mary Rose McGeady
Columns
Spotlight on Youth Youth Representation Leads to Better Public Education -Ben Smilowitz Research and Practice Education, Youth, and Social Justice -James O'Brien, Andrea Brown, Joseph Kahne Children's Express What Girl Power Really Means -Jennifer McVeigh, Kenyan Churchwell, Alana Mayo, Lexie Kruvaent, Brittany Martin International Insights Education for Activism -Karen Pittman, Merita Irby Bookshelf Free the Children, by Craig Kielberger with Kevin Major -John Terry View from the Hill Helping Runaway and Homeless Youth Grow Up Safe and Secure -Donna E. Shalala Opinion Race Relations Panel Follow-Up -Harold Branch III, Peter Rundlet
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