Title

Palestinian Youth And Non-Formal Service-Learning: A Model For Personal Development, Long-Term Engagement, And Peace Building

Abstract

Palestinian youth face developmental, cultural, and political barriers that impede them from fully engaging in civic life. Non-traditional, youth-centred pedagogies of engagement, like community-based service-learning, have shown their potential to motivate marginalised populations and provide space and roles for them to form individual identities while developing civic skills. Using data collected through focus-group interviews, this article considers the impact on West Bank youth who participated in an NGO's community-based service-learning leadership programme. Six themed findings are discussed, and the author suggests that non-school-based service-learning may have a central role to play in the civic-identity development of Palestine's most populous group of citizens. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.

Publication Date

5-1-2011

Publication Title

Development in Practice

Volume

21

Issue

3

Number of Pages

304-316

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2011.557422

Socpus ID

79957553614 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79957553614

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