全国两会视域下青年发展政策的新走向

青年发展事务属于人的发展和社会发展事务的范畴,因而青年发展政策应融入到经济社会发展政策之中.2021年全国两会在对国家经济社会发展做出年度安排和中长期规划的过程中,涉及广泛的青年发展领域和众多的青年发展事务,其中许多属于政策措施,具有政策价值,预示了中国青年发展政策的新走向.从两会上相关文件和人大代表、政协委员的关注话...     

发扬服务精神深化志愿工作--广东省志愿者工作经验选登

编者按:近年来,广东省的青年志愿者工作在不断向各地区、各领域拓展,在工作中涌现了一批先进典型,总结出许多好的经验.这里选登广州市白云区团委、中山市青年志愿者协会等几个地方的经验材料,供大家参考.     

关于广东青年统战工作的实践和思考

广东的青年统战工作有着独特的地缘背景,改革开放的成就也赋予其许多新的工作内涵。应在广东 青年统战工作中落实“新、特、实”的工作方针,使其更好地服务于改革开放和经济建设,服务于青年的成长成才。     

新中国成立初期中国共产党青年工作的理论与实践

青年工作是党的工作的重要组成部分,涉及宣传、教育、就业、婚姻等多个方面,其核心是推动青年与政治、青年与社会的有机互动.通过梳理《中国青年》相关内容发现,新中国成立初期,中国共产党青年工作主要集中在动员青年参加革命与建设、开展青年思想文化教育、引导青年成长需求,并积累了诸如重视青年思想政治教育、关注青年成长需求、围绕党的...     

中国青年公益创业：类型与趋势

中国青年公益创业是近年来将公益服务与创业发展相结合的新生事物,也是青年参与社会、发挥才能的新兴领域。调查发现,青年公益创业出现公益需求创业、公益实践创业、公益兴趣创业、公益志向创业、公益智慧创业、公益机遇创业、公益合作创业、公益网络创业等多种类型。这些创业类型代表了现阶段中国公益创业的现状,也反映出了中国公益创业的新趋势。青年公益创业对青年公民素质成长、公益热情激发、创业才能展示和社会服务奉献具有积极的影响。     

青年工作转型与发展的研究报告

分析国内外青年工作转型与发展对深圳青年工作的启示,以及加入WTO后深圳青年工作的社会背 景、社会形势与社会要求,说明深圳青年工作必须主动改革和创新,才能更好地为社会发展和青年发展服务。     

青年政策学学科体系初探

青年政策学研究对未末青年工作的规范化、秆学化有重要的指导作用。本文对建立青年政策学学科体系作了初步探讨，提出以青年政策概论、青年政策系统、青年政策实践作为青年政策学理论框架的三大组成部分。     

认识 教育 使用──邓小平青年观的主体框架

邓小平青年观的学习研究对做好青年工作，培养新世纪接班人具有重要的现实意义。本文从认识青年──教育青年──使用青年层层深入地剖析了邓小平同志的系统青年观和完整的青年工作理论体系，并指出它是马克思主义青年观的继承和发展。     

论邓小平外交思想与青年外事工作的发展

邓小平外交思想是邓小平理论的重要组成部分，是党的十一届三中全会后，以邓小平同志为核心的第二代中央领导集体全面把握国内和国际形势，将马克思主义与当代中国实际相结合的产物，它继承和发展了毛泽东外交思想，具有鲜明的中国特色和时代特征．它主要由和平与发展论、一切为经济建设服务论和全方位外交论三个相关的思想构成．邓小平外交思想是开创我国青年外事工作新局面、指导我国青年外事工作从胜利走向胜利的根本方针．在它的指引下，我国青年外事工作得到了蓬勃发展，在为党政外交、经济建设和青年工作服务方面取得了辉煌的成就．     

经济转型与青年创业就业——以广东省东莞市为例

改革开放30年,伴随珠江三角洲地区经济转型,东莞市青年创业就业状况发生很大变化。青年就业意愿普遍提高,青年学历、能力普遍提高,而择业意向与社会需求的偏离,择业意向与理想实现路径的偏离。青年创业呈现多元发展的特征。从创业者构成来看,包括社区青年创业、农村青年创业、务工青年创业、大学毕业生创业和青年人才创业;从创业领域来看,有农业产业、制造业、服务业和科技产业创业;从创业层次来看,有白手起家创业、小本经营创业、二代接班创业、产业升级创业等多层次。东莞青年不同群体、不同层次的创业存在不同的问题,需要加以引导。     

青年文化:青年社会化的新视角

青年文化,作为在青年中流行、并对青年产生重大影响的因子,是青年社会化的主要执行者。同时,随着时代的发展,青年文化又使青年社会化出现了新特点,蕴含着当今青年社会化的二重性。因此,积极加强青年文化建设,对青年社会化的顺利实现乃至社会的发展都有着极大的现实意义。     

Youth-Guided Youth Engagement: Participatory Action Research (PAR) With High-Risk,Marginalized Youth

Engaging youth who live with high-risk, marginalized conditions presents a significant challenge in our society, considering the prevalence of disconnect and distrust they often experience within their social environments/systems. Yet, meaningful youth engagement is a key concept not only for youth development, but also for a systems change to more effectively support high-risk youth and families. This article presents a framework of youth engagement developed over 9 months, using participatory action research (PAR) with 16 youth leaders in a community-based research team. Although this framework has incorporated the youth leaders’ lived experiences, talents, and voices, positive youth development (PYD) and social justice youth development (SJYD) have theoretically contextualized our research. Youth leaders guided the framework's development, including the identification of key themes/dimensions, definitions, and practical examples. The framework's three components—“Basis” (philosophy and principles), “What” (goals/outcomes), and “How” (actions/processes/pathways to change)—are supported by nine themes described in this article.     

A theory-based evaluation to improve youth participation in progress: A case study of a youth policy in Italy

A theory-based evaluation of an in-progress program for the development of new youth centers the South of Italy is presented in this article. The study investigated if and to what extent the program was working to increase youth participation. Data were collected through document analysis of the program, in-depth interviews and a survey with the managers of the youth centers. Consistent with some previous study, results suggested that some program mechanisms related to cultural openings, obligations and opportunities of participation had been effective in the activation of youth participation. Some contextual factors behind such mechanisms were also taken into account. Then, the study confirmed the need to further develop forms of youth work able to mediate between the regulatory pressures expressed by public institutions and the claims of autonomy and participation manifested by youth.     

工会组织在青年就业及就业安全中的作用研究

青年是就业市场的生力军,其就业状况直接影响经济发展和社会稳定。目前青年就业形势严峻。中国工会在国家政治经济中的地位决定了其在青年就业及就业安全的作用不可或缺,诸如:参与制定青年就业政策、提供青年就业信息、培训青年就业技能、维护青年就业安全、帮扶困难青年就业和大力支持青年创业。推动国家和社会资源的有效整合、完善工会组织构建的多层次青年就业服务体系、拓展工会服务青年就业的服务内容等,以更好地鼓励和扶持青年实现创业创新。     

Organizational factors that contribute to youth workers' promotion of youth voice

The term youth voice has been identified as a mechanism that helps youth who are participating in out-of-school time programs (e.g., 4-H, Boys & Girls Club, Big Brother/Big Sister) achieve successful outcomes such as improved academic and social functioning. Youth voice promotion is commonly enacted in out-of-school time programs when youth workers extend opportunities to youth to provide feedback and make key program decisions. To date, scant research has focused on organizational factors that contribute to program staff (e.g., youth workers) willingness to promote youth voice. A structural equation model using person-environment fit theory within a Positive Youth Development theory framework was constructed to test organizational factors that contribute to youth voice promotion among youth workers. Data from 569 frontline youth workers within out-of-school time programs across the United States indicated that youth workers' abilities to form positive relationships with youth, professional efficacy, and ability to make decisions in their own jobs directly predicted youth workers' endorsement of youth voice. In addition, positive relationships partially mediated the effects of professional efficacy on youth voice promotion. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.     

A Response to Yang,Burrola, and Bryan: Suicide Ideation among Participants in an After-School Program: A Convenience Sample

The exploratory study conducted by Yang, Burrola, and Bryan (2009) provides an excellent platform for calling attention to the issue of suicide risk among elementary and middle school youth. Using their study as a catalyst, with this commentary I consider the finding that 12% of the young people surveyed acknowledged that they had “seriously considered suicide during the past year.” I offer an alternative interpretation that focuses more explicitly on youth resilience and discuss how youth organizations can become more intentional and proactive in their overall suicide prevention aims.     

Connecting research and practice: Perspectives on the role of manualized programs in youth work

While there is a strong movement in favor of the use of manual-based programs in the arena of social care, there is a view that such programs are not applicable in the more fluid setting of youth work, which operates informally, using dynamic and organic methods. A critical pedagogical approach to youth work engages young people by encouraging them to become inquisitive, to question why things are the way they are and to pose problems through which they can learn. For some, manualized or evidence-based programs are not seen as having a role in such contexts. However, to date, the international debate in relation to this issue has been limited by an absence of published studies focusing specifically on strategies to implement evidence-informed practice in youth work contexts. This article aims to address this gap in the literature. The Irish national youth organization Foróige, which works with more than 56,000 young people in Ireland on an annual basis, has developed a range of manualized evidence-informed resources to support its youth work over recent years. Drawing on research findings from a range of studies conducted with youth workers focusing on implementation of these resources, the article explores the benefits and tensions associated with the use of program manuals in a youth work context. The findings suggest that such resources have a valuable role to play in youth work if designed in collaboration with youth workers, showing respect for core youth work values and allowing for flexibility and adaptability in implementation.     

Youth Work in Croatia: Collecting Pieces for a Mosaic

This article explores the historical development of youth work in Croatia. By drawing from available data and personal experience, we describe three key phases of youth work development in a post-conflict country: (a) the period of the early 1990s as a “direct peace building" youth work; (b) the rise of nonformal education during the mid and late 1990s; and (c) the growth of a networked youth sector and its focus on youth policy advocacy starting in 2000. In addition, we refer to today's context, particularly because of its project-management orientation. Such categorization highlights various practices that we consider to represent youth work in a specific and contested national framework. Work with young people with fewer opportunities is being presented as a case, building on our observation that contemporary youth work continues to be embedded in civil society development and nonformal education, facing challenges of funding-driven discourse and unsystematic support.     

Youth Worker Professional Development Participation,Preferences, and Agency Support

Using a Web-based survey, this study examined youth workers' professional development participation, preferences, and levels of agency support and the relationships between these variables and youth worker characteristics. Results revealed a positive relationship between participation in professional development opportunities and youth workers' self-reported job competency but also indicated low levels of agency support for participation in continuing education. Though perceptions of critical training topics varied among program staff from different geographic areas, most youth workers reported similar training experiences and interests regardless of their individual characteristics. Collaborative approaches to training and professional development may result in increased exposure to a broad range of professional development opportunities and significantly enhance the quality of youth programming.