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LESSON OBJECTIVE: To explore the prevalence, diversity, and terminology to describe youth in society today.
SUCCESS CRITERIA: To understand the definition of Youth, the nature of youth, prevalence in society, diversity and recognise that the community uses positive and negative terminology to describe the group.
Discuss and Notes:
How does society see youth as a group?
What terms are used to describe youth? What is the impact of this on youth? Draw a table of pos and neg terminology
What are the needs of youth today? Challenges? Opportunities?
What are the characteristics of youth? (diversity)
How would you describe youth. What terminology would you use to describe Youth?
Watch Mission Australia Youth survey, both 2018 compared to 2019, then discuss the Mission Australia survey report 2024 for an overall picture of our youth today. Pick out 5 statistics that you find interesting from the report.
Prevalence
Prevalence
Youth are defined as those aged 12-24 in the life span, from adolescence to young adulthood. The United Nations, for statistical purposes, defines those persons between the ages of 15-24.
Diversity
Diversity
Individuals that sit within the group 'youth' are diverse and have a variety of characteristics. Because of the lifespan that youth covers, young people within this group can range from young people at primary school, high school, Uni, TAFE, in the workforce, moving out of home, renting, travelling, married, engaged, employed part-time, full time, interstate, overseas, married with or without children etc.
Demographics of Youth in Australia
Mission Australia 2024 Youth survey
please note that these links for some reason are not allowing access.... if you simply copy the title into a search bar, the reports are viewable.
Exam Prep Questions:
Outline the prevalence of youth in the Australian community (3)
Describe the individual diversity of youth (4)
What determines whether an individual is part of the group (4)
Examine how individuals may vary in youth (5)
The community uses positive and negative terminology to describe youth. Discuss the impact this terminology might have on youth individuals (7)
Past HSC Questions
How could the community's use of positive terminology have an impact on the wellbeing of people with disabilities (change to suit) Use examples to support your answer. (4) 2021
Explain the effect that individual diversity has on a person's educational needs with reference to two of the following groups: (6) 2017
Rural and remote families
LGBTQIA+
Youth
Explain how positive and negative terminology used by the community to describe specific groups could affect individuals within the group (8) 2016
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