Culture and Arts

Hi there,

I'd like to share with you the "Cultural Agents and Creative Arts" issue of the peer-reviewed journal New Directions in Youth Development.

We have a couple of articles on indigenous and urban radio, art as a catalyst among Curacaoan youth, empowering Aboriginal youth through music making, and more. A brief summary:

When youth engage in creative arts, they become authors of new works and experience the possibilities of exercising the power of their own creative and critical thinking. More than modes of expression, artistic media are also modes of interpretation and learning. The goal of this volume of New Directions for Youth Development is to inspire practitioners, advocates, policy professionals, and researchers interested in youth development through exemplary cases of art that have stimulated positive change in youth and in their general communities. Each case proposes novel scholarly and artistic projects for nonviolent social change, with the belief that creativity is vital to the health of democracies and that it is critical to the development of ethical, socially engaged, and resourceful citizens among our youth.

For more information and to read the executive summary, please go to www.pearweb.org/ndyd/index.html .

Hope this is helpful!

Cheers,
Tracy