Palestinian youth and non-formal service-learning: a model for personal development, long-term engagement, and peace building

Trae Stewart

Development in Practice, 2011, vol. 21, issue 3, 304-316

Abstract: Palestinian youth face developmental, cultural, and political barriers that impede them from fully engaging in civic life. Non-traditional, youth-centred pedagogies of engagement, like community-based service-learning, have shown their potential to motivate marginalised populations and provide space and roles for them to form individual identities while developing civic skills. Using data collected through focus-group interviews, this article considers the impact on West Bank youth who participated in an NGO's community-based service-learning leadership programme. Six themed findings are discussed, and the author suggests that non-school-based service-learning may have a central role to play in the civic-identity development of Palestine's most populous group of citizens.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2011.557422

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