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To investigate whether young people's participation in voluntary and campaigning activities promotes political knowledge, awareness, and democratic engagement.

March 1, 1999Oxford Review of Education

Young People's Voluntary and Campaigning Activities as Sources of Political Education

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To investigate whether young people's participation in voluntary and campaigning activities promotes political knowledge, awareness, and democratic engagement.
Surveyed a cohort of 1,160 adolescents aged 14–16 years regarding community participation, voluntary work, and political campaigning.
Assessed the influence of demographic factors, including gender, ethnicity, locality, and family background, on engagement levels and civic learning outcomes.
Substantial proportions of adolescents participated in volunteering and campaigning, with involvement patterns significantly influenced by gender, ethnicity, locality, and family dynamics.
Adolescent engagement promoted political development across five dimensions: understanding societal needs, fostering political efficacy, clarifying party differences and voting intent, encouraging structural reflection, and building campaigning skills.

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Cross-sectional study reveals that voluntary and campaigning activities foster political understanding and voting intent in adolescents, highlighting community engagement as informal political...

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Roker et al. (1999) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a18a6bdd36da06b0a919181 https://doi.org/10.1080/030549899104206

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Cross-sectional study reveals that voluntary and campaigning activities foster political understanding and voting intent in adolescents, highlighting community engagement as informal political...

Young People's Voluntary and Campaigning Activities as Sources of Political Education

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