Category: Reflection

• Expanding Youth Participation

  A group in the United Kingdom just put out a useful PDF documenting a “pathway to participation.” YoMo is a “community interest company” that is committed to youth participation. Their work across the UK looks great, and I am enjoying reading their website and blog, and looking forward to reading their materials soon. In the […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  January 28, 2008

  Reflection, Theory, youth empowerment, youth engagement, Youth involvement, Youth Voice

• Adultism in Parenting: The Terrible Twos

  The so-called “Terrible Twos” are a myth. A Drunken Postmaster Supposedly coined by a drunken postmaster in the 1800s, the phrase has become ubiquitous among new parents everywhere I hear anyone talking about children. I have raised a child through them and participated in the upbringing of a number of nieces and nephews, and every […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  January 10, 2008

  Adam Fletcher, adultism, family, parenting, Reflection, Youth Voice

  children, parenting, social change, youth

• The Simplicity of Engagement

  I admit it, I am guilty. For years I’ve been working to over-complicate youth engagement. In my partnerships with some of the leaders in the field of youth engagement we have sought to identify, explore, examine, re-identify, re-explore, and re-examine youth engagement in its parts and particulars. We have been looking for the sophisticated components, […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  January 2, 2008

  engagement, OSPI, Reflection, Research, Youth Voice