TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Sitting there and listening was one of the most important lessons I had to learn'
T2 - critical capacity building in youth participatory action research
AU - Luguetti, Carla
AU - Jice, Nyayoud
AU - Singehebhuye, Loy
AU - Singehebhuye, Kashindi
AU - Mathieu, Adut
AU - Spaaij, Ramon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024/11/25
Y1 - 2024/11/25
N2 - This work builds upon critical youth studies' concern with capacity building in engaging young people as active agents for social change. This article analyses critical capacity building processes among young women engaged in youth participatory action research (YPAR) that sought to co-design a community sport programme in Melbourne, Australia. Participants included the first author, four young women (second to the fifth author), and a critical friend (sixth author). The experience of engaging young women in YPAR foregrounded significant capacity building such as: (a) learning to genuinely listen to young people in order to plan for change; (b) finding creative and flexible ways to build relationships; (c) learning to negotiate the messiness and uncertainty in the research process; and (d) improving problem-solving skills in order to listen and respond to young people in their community. This paper concludes by articulating how YPAR can potentialise the development of critical capacity building in youth studies, nurturing skills and knowledge linked with social justice, activism, and democracy, instead of instrumentalist and technocratic capacity-building models that focus on training and predefined practical skills.
AB - This work builds upon critical youth studies' concern with capacity building in engaging young people as active agents for social change. This article analyses critical capacity building processes among young women engaged in youth participatory action research (YPAR) that sought to co-design a community sport programme in Melbourne, Australia. Participants included the first author, four young women (second to the fifth author), and a critical friend (sixth author). The experience of engaging young women in YPAR foregrounded significant capacity building such as: (a) learning to genuinely listen to young people in order to plan for change; (b) finding creative and flexible ways to build relationships; (c) learning to negotiate the messiness and uncertainty in the research process; and (d) improving problem-solving skills in order to listen and respond to young people in their community. This paper concludes by articulating how YPAR can potentialise the development of critical capacity building in youth studies, nurturing skills and knowledge linked with social justice, activism, and democracy, instead of instrumentalist and technocratic capacity-building models that focus on training and predefined practical skills.
KW - Capacity building
KW - Critical youth studies
KW - Football
KW - Sport
KW - Youth development
KW - Youth participatory action research
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U2 - 10.1080/13676261.2023.2226082
DO - 10.1080/13676261.2023.2226082
M3 - Article
SN - 1367-6261
VL - 27
SP - 1477
EP - 1493
JO - Journal of Youth Studies
JF - Journal of Youth Studies
IS - 10
ER -