Who are the youth?
Today I read Lesley's article called "Framing Youth: Writing 'Youth' in Social Context". This article made me think about many different things such as the challenges that the youth face to let their voices be heard without negative criticisms coming from older people.
I liked what Lesely said on page 3 which was, "As adults we believe we know youth — we once were youth, and some of us share our daily lives with youth as teachers, parents and friends." Even if we have lived through our youth years, we will never be able to truly understand what a child is going through or what they are thinking. So we should empower their ideas rather than tell them they are to young or to naive to know anything.
We as people just have to try to understand where these young people are coming from and allow their voices to be heard rather than put them down for being young. That's why I also liked the quote from Thorne on page 3 which was "in her study of elementary school playground culture, argues that "to learn from children, adults have to challenge the deep assumption that they already know what children are ‘like,’ both because, as former children, adults have been there, and because, as adults, they regard children as less complete versions of themselves" (12)." Which is also true, we have to understand where they are coming from, what they are like, and listen to what they have to say.
-Mike Rohelia
I liked what Lesely said on page 3 which was, "As adults we believe we know youth — we once were youth, and some of us share our daily lives with youth as teachers, parents and friends." Even if we have lived through our youth years, we will never be able to truly understand what a child is going through or what they are thinking. So we should empower their ideas rather than tell them they are to young or to naive to know anything.
We as people just have to try to understand where these young people are coming from and allow their voices to be heard rather than put them down for being young. That's why I also liked the quote from Thorne on page 3 which was "in her study of elementary school playground culture, argues that "to learn from children, adults have to challenge the deep assumption that they already know what children are ‘like,’ both because, as former children, adults have been there, and because, as adults, they regard children as less complete versions of themselves" (12)." Which is also true, we have to understand where they are coming from, what they are like, and listen to what they have to say.
-Mike Rohelia
I like how you used direct quote and expanded on it.
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