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"Framing youth"

     Youth is “a tribe apart” according to Hersch. Youth has their own customs, language and rituals. All of what I stated above is different with each generation of youth. Some of the things my brothers say and do it very different from when I was a child.        “Youth are in-transition, finding themselves, hormone-driven, emotional, inexperienced, and always in opposition to the adults in their lives.” I believe that being a teenager can be awkward because in essence you are finding who you are going to be but I believe that awkwardness is a rite of passage.       Every youth has a different voice and a different way of using their voice. “Secure the weight of their voice through repetition, reproduction in mainstream text, popular culture and “scientific” studies which naturalize them as a part of the “common sense” of American culture. I agree with this. Youth learn to use their voice because of the media I believe....
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YDEV Ideology

   After doing the Youth Development Ideology Inventory I learned that I fall into the critical youth development ideology. I believe that youth can make a difference and they have a voice. Youth can have important ideas and can contribute to the world.  Youth and adults works together to develop public role play. I learned that I can make a change for the better with youth. When working with youth I should provide spaces that ask youth what they think.      We did this inventory in  my YDEV class last semester and I kept it. I am in the same ideology as last semester.
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what is Youth Development

Youth Development is about being involved with young people. It is also should be informal and educational. It focuses on personal, social, and political awareness. Youth Development exists to improve the lives of young people by meeting their basic needs, physically, developmentally, and socially. 
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