11 R1.T2 – Module 2: The role of Active Citizenship in EU in sustainable development awareness change the community from what it was. To alter cultures and preexisting ways of thought, democratic action is conducted in collaboration with others (Poyntz 2009). Youth involvement may increase and improve public life if the democratic mechanisms that support it are developed and rebuilt to satisfy young people’s needs and provide them the opportunity to interact with adult society. Video Check this educational video regarding Youth Empowerment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJnLaj7fRZg Typology of Youth Participation and Empowerment (TYPE) Pyramid There are various models that promote youth participation and empowerment. One of the most known models that describes Youth Participation and Empowerment is the so called “TYPE Pyramid’ which was introduced by Wong, Zimmerman and Parker (2010). According to their proposed model, three categorical categories of participation are distinguished—adult control, youth control, and shared control—which are represented by the TYPE Pyramid. Whereas shared control is raised over youth and grown-up control, proposing that degrees of strengthening increment for both youth and grown-ups as participatory exercises climb toward more perfect shapes of youth-adult organization, grown-up control and youth control are set on the same level, suggesting relatively equal levels of empowerment on a continuum. Furthermore, the pyramidal presentation of the concept is purposefully created to "avoid the presumption that youthdriven engagement is ideal," which was a frequent misunderstanding of past ladder-based models of empowerment and participation. Fig. 2: The Type Pyramid (Source: S. (2019, November 5). Typology of Youth Participation and Empowerment Pyramid. Organizing Engagement. https://organizingengagement.org/models/typology-of-youthparticipation-and-empowerment-pyramid/#:%7E:text=The%20Typology%20of%20Youth%20Participation,positive%20youth%20development%20and%20empowerment) Additional information If you want to learn more on the different models that represent Youth participation visit the links here, here, and here
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