Civic participation transforms how adults perceive and treat local youth.

Evidence

Before I was involved as a facilitator for the Community Gathering, I would walk down the street and adults looked at me like I was some trouble-causing kid. Now when I walk down the street, adults that I didn’t know before say hi to me, stop me to tell me what a great job I did and talk to me about the conversations of that weekend. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education, 50

Categorization

• CANDY: A compact real-world story about a student’s status shifting after leading a community forum.
• SEED: Good evidence for an essay on how meaningful civic roles rebuild youth standing in adult eyes, a core argument for community-based education.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Genuine civic participation can transform how a community perceives its young people; Facilitating a community event can transform a young person’s standing within their town.; Giving students public roles transforms how adults see them in the community. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 50 (+2 more)

Related

• Genuine civic participation can transform how a community perceives its young people (similarity 0.95)
• Facilitating a community event can transform a young person’s standing within their town. (similarity 0.94)
• Giving students public roles transforms how adults see them in the community. (similarity 0.92)

Broader Connections

• Giving students public roles transforms how adults see them in the community. #corroborates (0.90) — David Sobel, Place-Based Education, 50
• Adult social attitudes remain changeable through new learning and experiences #qualifies (0.72) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1107