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Constructing Environmental Citizenship through Socio-professional Insertion Programs for Youth with Severe Learning and Adaptation Difficulties
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
Québec | 2009 | p. 111–132
ISBN/ISSN: 
ISSN 1705-0065 (numérique)
Author: 
Marc Boutet; Ghislain Samson; Julie Myre Bisaillon
Corporate author: 
Revue des sciences de l’éducation
Region: 
Europe and North America

This article is about the importance of environmental citizenship as a factor of socio-professional insertion for students who terminate their schooling without a secondary or professional training diploma, in order to prevent that their school exclusion leads to a social exclusion. Results of a research on a socio-professional insertion program for youth that integrates environmental and sustainable development issues and the Corporate Training and Recuperation Centres Network (CFER) are presented and discussed. Those results tend to demonstrate that the students’ involvement in an environmental cause increases their empowerment towards complex social issues.

Resource Type: 
Research papers / journal articles
International normative instruments / policy and advocacy documents
Theme: 
Civic / Citizenship / Democracy
Diversity / cultural literacy / inclusive
Sustainable development / sustainability
Level of education: 
Higher education