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Selene Biffi
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"Youth Perspectives on Education" - Online Youth Forum
May 3, 2004 - 01:23 AM
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Name: Youth Perspectives on Education
Topics: Access/Right to Education,Alternative Education,Education,Youth Rights
Description and Goals:
This group, moderated by and for youth (those aged 15-25), it's a forum aiming at gathering insights, perspectives and thoughts about education and related topics.
Some of the issues to be considered are as follows:
1. How does education, or lack of it, influences your life and the one of other young people in your country?
2. What does education mean to you?
3. What is the relationship among formal/informal education? What the outcomes?
4. What do you think about the privatization of education?
5. What ideas would you suggest to help improve the educational system in your country and worldwide?
The Forum will run throughout June. All the material sent will then be summarised and presented during the second session of the International Youth Parliament, Sydney 2004.
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Roko Zaper
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Re: "Youth Perspectives on Education" - Online Youth Forum
May 6, 2004 - 06:35 AM
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Education to me seems to be a necessity in todays' world,
but one with varying consenquences. Education is primarily
concieved of in terms of constructive knowledge, that
can be used to maintain a system of government (sadly) or
provide work opportunities. From my own experince I know
that uni courses can be made use of in contradictory ways;
for eg. a politics degree can serve the interests of
the government and its rascist services (in the case of
australia) or it can be used as a starting point for
criticizing its actions. Informal or even private education
can be just as significant as the public sector in setting
agendas for education. That is why the government can not
take education for granted or treat it as a one purpose system that maintains its own strangle-hold on public policies. Internationally, i think it is important that
education does not diminish cultural values, however it
should work in promoting understanding of values (as this site does)witithout destroying the diversity that makes
knowledge a worthy and captivating pursuit.
P.S Selena, Zlatko told me about this site, hope this helps
you  Arriverderci!
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