Table of Contents

1. A History of Changing Places for Learning, Creativity, and Care in the City

Section 1: Defining and Describing YouthSites
Section Introduction

2. The Challenges of Researching the Non-Formal Learning Sector
3. A Tale of Three Cities
4. Young People's Experiences of YouthSites

Section 2 The Achievement, Impact, and Effect of YouthSites
Section Introduction

5. Making a Claim for Authentic Learning Amidst Changing Education Ecosystems
6. Aesthetics and Creativity in Youth and Community Arts
7. Making Spaces for Youth: Community Arts, and the City
8. Leaders and Modes of Leadership
9. The Paradox of Enterprise: Governance, Markets, and Social Good

10. Conclusion: What Future for YouthSites?

Appendix: List of Organizations
References
Index

About the Author

Stuart R. Poyntz is Professor and Director of the School of Communication and Co-Director of the Community Engaged Research Initiative at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

Julian Sefton-Green is Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published 15 books, including recent contributions such as The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age (New York University Press, 2016), Learning Identities, Education and Community: Young Lives in the Cosmopolitan City (Cambridge University Press 2016) and Learning Beyond the School: International Perspectives on the Schooled Society
(Routledge, 2018).

Heather Fitzsimmons Frey is an Assistant Professor of Arts and Cultural Management at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada.