Youth Engagement and Participation: Field-Building Across Research and Practice

Ozer et al seek to provide further clarity in the underdeveloped research area about youth engagement and participation, highlighting distinctions among youth participation approaches, and propose a research agenda moving forward. They noted that the term youth engagement is used so broadly as to be potentially problematic. Beyond the importance of differentiating the diverse approaches described, they have observed confusion between youth-led research, organizing, and evaluation approaches versus standard formative research practices conducted with adolescent research participants such as focus groups and interviews.