Problem:
Write a critical auto-biography based on life as a young person growing up in the 1980's and 1990s. It is strongly recommended that you begin writing early in the course so that the biography is DIRECLTY related to course content. Many of the activities you will complete within each module are designed to assist you in completing this assignment. Need Assignment Help?
For this written assignment, you will
Tell the story of some part of your life as a young person (ages 12-20 years in). What was most memorable to you and why? What were some highlights and challenges and who helped to negotiate them? What did you learn?
Reflect critically upon your story with the use of the readings from this course (use at least one main idea from each module). What do these ideas and course materials illuminate about your own life as a young person? Reflect on what you have told of your own young life in relation to the course. Properly cite any course readings and materials that you mention. You must include at minimum the following critical ideas: epistemological fallacy, being, becoming, and belonging.
Using information from each section provided
- Tilleczek, K. (2011). Approaching youth studies: Being, becoming, and belonging. Oxford University Press.
- Chapter 1: Toward Contemporary Youth Studies
- Chapter 2: Historical and Mythic Foundations for Youth Studies
- Chapter 3: Asking and Answering Good Questions: The Praxis of Youth Studies
- Chapter 4: Can There Be a Social Science with and for Youth?
- Chapter 5: Modern Youth at Work and Play (pp. 66-79 only)
- Chapter 6: Schools, Families, and Friends: Tangled Social Webs
- Klein, N., & Stefoff, R. (2021). How to change everything: The young human's guide to protecting the planet and each other. Puffin Canada.
- Chapter 1: Kids Take Action
- Chapter 2: World Warmers
- Chapter 3: Climate and Justice
- Chapter 4: Burning the Past, Cooking the Future
- Chapter 5: The Battle Takes Shape
- Chapter 6: Protecting Their Homes - and the Planet
- Chapter 7: Changing the Future
- Chapter 8: A Green New Deal
- Chapter 9: A Toolkit for Young Activists
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Hopkins, C., Michelsen, G., Ilga Salite, A., Wagner, D., Yokoi, A., Fischer, D., Kohl, K., Razak, R., & Tilleczek, K. (2020). Sustainability as a purpose on a new path to learning. In UNESCO (Eds.), Humanist futures: Perspectives on the future of education (pp. 58-62). UNESCO: International Commission on the Future of Education.
- Tilleczek, K. (2019). Youth have a love-hate relationship with digital tech in the age of the Anthropocene. The Conversation, Summer Edition, 2019.
- United Nations. (2023, August 22). CRC/C/GC/26: General comment No. 26 (2023) on children's rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. Committee on the Rights of the Child.
- United Nations. (2023). General comment No. 26 on children's rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change: Version for children. Committee on the Rights of the Child.