Civic engagement of modern youth: socio-philosophical analysis

In the proposed article, the philosophy of youth policy regarding civic engagement and participation is formulated in terms of “voice”, empowerment, and social inclusion of today’s youth. The aim of the study is a systematic analysis of the concepts of youth civic engagement from the outside and from within: from the standpoint of strategies aimed at encouraging youth civic engagement, and from the standpoint of youth participation to expand civic experience in solving problems in their own community. The study is implemented as part of the socioconstructivist approach with a discursive analysis of the problem of youth civic engagement. To summarize the results, elements of the systematic approach are used, which allows to find forward and backward linkages in the system of civic engagement of the younger generation. The study demonstrated the need to develop young people’s sense of civic responsibility to their own community as a precursor to civic behavior, as well as to prepare strategies to encourage civic and political engagement, which should include both traditional approaches and a new philosophy of political innovation. The relationship of reciprocal conditioning of forward and backward linkages forms a “natural” system of youth civic engagement. The findings will shed light on the possibilities for critical discourses in the theory and practice of social studies, including the work of social studies educators who form youth as citizens in a system of civic education.