/dev/ The Youth Institute is an organisation focused on bridging the gap between what we know about youth development in the developing world and what we do. It is headed by Cambridge and Harvard graduate, Dr Sharlene Swartz. en-gb This site is powered by e107, which is released under the terms of the GNU GPL License. admin - info@nospam.com info@nospam.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:31:32 +0200 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:31:32 +0200 http://backend.userland.com/rss e107 (http://e107.org) 60 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/e107_images/logo_template_large.png /dev/ 88 31 The Youth Institute is an organisation focused on bridging the gap between what we know about youth development in the developing world and what we do. It is headed by Cambridge and Harvard graduate, Dr Sharlene Swartz. Search The Youth Institute query http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/search.php http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.43 Conferences and invited seminars Sharlene Swartz<sharlene@nospam.com> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:14:26 +0200 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.43 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.42
Although receiving renewed attention the world over moral education continues to be proscribed by official, academic, professional, lay and religious discourses (Haydon, 2000) to the exclusion and neglect of youth discourses. In the context of South Africa�s nascent democracy, pervasive poverty and post-apartheid legacy, and in the midst of moral panics and a government-led �moral regeneration campaign�, an ethnographic study, that included the use of autophotography, was undertaken in a township near Cape Town to map the sites at which �moral capital� is located, mediated and circulated. Using an ecological framework (Bronfenbrenner & Mahoney, 1975) and borrowing from Bourdieu�s analysis of social and cultural capital (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1973, 1977) this study provides important insights into how moral education ought, or ought not, to be conducted.]]> Conferences and invited seminars Sharlene Swartz<sharlene@nospam.com> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:43:25 +0100 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.42 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.41
The importance of considering moral formation as an ecology is no better illustrated than in the lives of youth living in contexts of extreme and chronic poverty. Applying Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems approach of adolescent development to youth moral formation expands our vision beyond both the purely psychological focus of cognitive development and the macrosystem of the sociologist, and allows us to consider more deeply the interrelationships which exists at each level of complexly interacting systems. An ethnographic research study conducted amongst youth living in extreme conditions of poverty and deprivation provides an empirical basis for talking about the moral formation of youth that goes beyond (but doesn’t exclude) personal choices and provides a nuanced reading of the competing and interacting systems which youth have to negotiate in order to be and become ‘good people’.]]> Conferences and invited seminars Sharlene Swartz<sharlene@nospam.com> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:42:37 +0100 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.41 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.40
As part of a largely ethnographic doctoral dissertation entitled “The Moral Ecology of South Africa’s township youth”, 37 youth from “black” townships near Cape Town, were given digital cameras and asked to capture those things, people, and places which influence them and to reflect on the notion of right and wrong from within their ethnic and youth cultures. The results provide unique insights into the moral motivation of youth and their processes of moral decision making. It conveys graphically and dramatically how youth come to critique the plethora of cultures which is contemporary South Africa. In this paper I describe violence, one of the twelve aspects I have identified as comprising the moral ecology of South Africa’s township youth.
]]> Conferences and invited seminars Sharlene Swartz<sharlene@nospam.com> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:40:30 +0100 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.40 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.39 Journal articles Sharlene Swartz<sharlene@nospam.com> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:04:47 +0100 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.39 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.38 Journal articles Sharlene Swartz<sharlene@nospam.com> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:04:15 +0100 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.38 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.37 Journal articles Sharlene Swartz<sharlene@nospam.com> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:03:21 +0100 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.37 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.36 Journal articles Sharlene Swartz<sharlene@nospam.com> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:02:43 +0100 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.36 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.35 Harvard research papers Sharlene Swartz<sharlene@nospam.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:19:01 +0100 http://www.theyouthinstitute.org/download.php?view.35