Young People: Cross-cultural views and futures

Description

Young People: Cross-cultural views and futures is designed to highlight student voices from multiple perspectives and diverse socio-cultural contexts. Young people have lived all their lives with personal connectivity. Their mobile digital devices provide a steady stream of information anytime and anyplace. The result is that young people today offer a unique perspective on global issues. Students in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Kenya, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland reveal overlapping interests related to the future of our planet including: the environment, health and wellbeing, their families, education, and jobs.

Margaret Robertson is Professor of Education at La Trobe University, Australia. Her research and publication interests focus on cultural geography, particularly young people's geographies and applications of social media and digital technologies. Research projects also include a range of issues related to environmental and community-based education. Sirpa Tani is Professor of Geography and Environmental Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research activities deal with geographies of young people, geography education and visual methodologies. She is especially interested in urban and cultural geographies, geographies of everyday life and emotional geographies.