About the book Young People: Cross-cultural views and futures is designed to highlight student voices from multiple perspectives and diverse socio-cultural contexts. Young people have lived all their lives with personal connectivity. Their mobile digital devices provide a steady stream of information anytime and anyplace. The result is that young people today offer a unique perspective on global issues. Margaret Robertson and Sirpa Tani bring together case studies from researchers, teachers and students on every continent. Students in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Kenya, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland reveal overlapping interests related to the future of our planet including: the environment, health and wellbeing, their families, education, and jobs. The final chapter reflects on these findings and explores how the behaviours, essential values and beliefs of young people are being modified. The authors conclude with suggestions related to how students voices can add to the quality of educational decision-making for the future.

Key points * Common questions of young people from across the globe, showcasing shared interests and concerns from different socioeconomic perspectives * Addresses a diverse range of issues including the environment, health and wellbeing, safety and personal security, personal futures and happiness. * Explores the concept of global citizenship, looking beyond the local to embrace an interconnected world * Focuses on the commodification of knowledge and personal mobility facilitated through social media About the editors Margaret Robertson is Professor of Education at La Trobe University, Australia. Her research and publication interests focus on cultural geography, particularly young people's geographies and applications of social media and digital technologies. Research projects also include a range of issues related to environmental and community-based education. Sirpa Tani is Professor of Geography and Environmental Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research activities deal with geographies of young people, geography education and visual methodologies. She is especially interested in urban and cultural geographies, geographies of everyday life and emotional geographies. For information about the contributors visit https://shop.

acer.edu.au/acer-shop/product/A5302BK Related titles * Children's Ways of Knowing: Learning through experience, edited by Margaret Robertson and Rod Gerber, ACER Press 2001 * In Their Own Hands: Can young people change Australia? by Lucas Walsh and Ros Black, ACER Press 2011 * Sustainable Futures: Teaching and learning - a case study approach, edited by Margaret Robertson, ACER Press 2007 * The Child's World: Triggers for learning, edited by Margaret Robertson and Rod Gerber, ACER Press 2000.