Frontline Learning Research, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12(3)

Published: Sept. 3, 2024

Feeling the urgency of climate crisis and judging current societal (re)action insufficient, young adults increasingly engage in activism. While individual learning is not objective activism, research has documented that learn activism movements. This study traces adults’ across different life-wide contexts, explicating dis/continuities learning. Content-analysis interviews with twelve self-defined activists indicates other life-contexts report a) about climate, intersectionality, democracy system structures, b) to organize, socialize take perspective(s), while c) progressively expressing who how they want be(come). Young described experiencing discontinuities between context their contexts such as education, friends family, efforts re-establish continuities are an important part When experience discontinuity structurally, keep themselves and/or disengage from among others. Making space education more explicitly for sharing shaping what matters youth seems desirable.

Language: Английский