Youth Education for Social Responsibility

Robert Dyck

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2015, vol. 32, issue 2, 168-174

Abstract: Social responsibility requires youth education that promotes it. This article addresses the problem of irresponsible, unjust social behavior from the perspective of its origins in the prevailing Prussian model of public education. It proposes an alternative partnership model that teaches collaborative, socially responsible behavior. We define socially responsible behavior in terms of five central issues of social justice. We also assert, with others, that transformative remedies must arise from collaboration between the victims of injustice and those who have the means to alter the educational models. We adduce several key insights from anthropology and the philosophy of value and meaning to support this objective. We conclude with several ideas concerning educational experiments that could help in the transformation of youth education models, including Venezuela's El Sistema, which uses orchestral music to teach collaborative life skills. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 2015
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