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Youth empowerment examines six interdependent dimensions: psychological, community, organizational, economic, social and cultural. [1] [8] Psychological empowerment enhances individual's consciousness, belief in self-efficacy, awareness and knowledge of problems and solutions and of how individuals can address problems that harm their quality of life. [1]
Values education topics can address to varying degrees are character, moral development, Religious Education, Spiritual development, citizenship education, personal development, social development and cultural development. [7] There is a further distinction between explicit values education and implicit values education [8] [9] where:
He also focuses on language development and identifies the zone of proximal development. The Zone of Proximal development is defined as the gap between what a student can do alone and what the student can achieve through teacher assistance. [14] The values and attitudes of the peer group are essential elements in learning.
Students learn these values because their behavior at school is regulated (Durkheim in [3]) until they gradually internalize and accept them. Additionally, education is an important tool in the transmission of core values. The core values in education reflect on the economic and political systems that originally fueled education.
The adolescent's social options for friendship and romance are limited by her own crowd and by other crowds. [9] Often crowds reinforce the behaviors that originally caused an individual to be labeled part of that crowd, which can positively or negatively influence the individual (toward academic achievement or drug use, for example).
The Disengaged Teen is not the first book to call for more self-starting in school; the book’s authors acknowledge the long lineage of reforms designed to reignite student interest in the ...
Researchers have characterized youth culture as embodying values that are "in conflict with those of the adult world". [13] Common concerns about youth culture include a perceived lack of interest in education, involvement in risky behaviors like substance use and sexual activity, and engaging extensively in leisure activities. [14]
In common practice, SEL emphasizes social and emotional skills to the same degree as other subjects, such as math, science, and reading. [1] Furthermore, SEL emphasizes an importance upon preparing students to become knowledgeable, responsible, and caring members of society when they reach adulthood. [2] [3]