The Value of Engaging Young People in Community Cultural Development Projects: Three Models for Re-engagement

By:
Dr. Julia de Roeper
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Over the past three years, a youth arts centre in Adelaide, South Australia, has presented three short-term arts programs for young people in an outer metropolitan suburb who were perceived to be in danger of disengaging from formal education. Based on qualitative research undertaken throughout the process, this paper will examine the different models used to present the three programs, and their short-term outcomes in terms of individual impact and social and cultural sustainability. It will consider these programs in the context of current community cultural development theory and practice, and discuss the value of longer-term provision of arts and cultural facilities for disadvantaged youth.


Keywords: Disengaged youth, Community Cultural Development, Arts interventions, Social outcomes, Cultural Sustainability, Drug abuse, Unemployment
Stream: Cultural Sustainability
Presentation Type: 30 minute Paper Presentation in English
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Dr. Julia de Roeper

Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia
Australia

Julia de Roeper worked as an arts administrator and then as a producer in Australia’s film and television industry before completing a PhD thesis entitled ‘Public Stories, Private Lives: an inquiry into the role of story in ‘middle’ Australia’. A lecturer in the School of Communications at the University of South Australia and a Researcher with the Hawke Institute for Sustainable Societies, her current research focuses on two separate but related areas: the impact of community cultural development programs in the lives of disengaged and disadvantaged young people, and the changing digital media access patterns of young people who represent the future audiences for public narrative in the digital age.

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