Imagining Youth Futures

Rosalyn Black is Senior Lecturer in Education at Deakin University, Melbourne. Her research interests are located at the intersection of the sociologies of education and youth, and include young people’s experience of citizenship and the role of education policy and practice in contexts of social inequality. Her most recent book is Rethinking Youth Citizenship After the Age of Entitlement (with Lucas Walsh) Dr Lucas Walsh is Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Education at Monash University. His research focuses on the political, economic, cultural, social and technological dimensions of young people’s participation - in particular their transitions to post-school life across social, political, cultural and economic domains - and the implications of these for educators and policy. Recent books include Educating Generation Next: Young People, Teachers and Schooling in Transition and Rethinking Youth Citizenship After the Age of Entitlement (with Rosalyn Black).

1. Introduction.-  2. A Brief History of Youth.- 3. Political Citizenship.- 4. Higher Education and Citizenship.- 5. Cultural Change and Citizenship.- 6. The Economy and Citizenship.- 7. The Futures of Youth.- 8. Conclusion.