For youth, as for everyone else, life here and now is important and urgent. It is not easy to be continuously motivated for preparing for an unknown future. Motivational energy seems to be closely linked with needs, interests, wishes, passions and dreams. The stronger powers also seen to be connected to what is close, relevant and meaningful for each individual. How can we further develop schools that to a greater degree tap into forces of possible growth?
Learning for young people in particular, must be relevant to their current life stage. Context-related teaching might offer a solution, to keep young people engaged and motivated in their learning.
I think looking into the research into episodic future thinking/episodic counterfactual thinking could be relevant. Perhaps work on strengthening students' ability to project themselves (mentally!) into the future?
Hi Kjartan, Sorry, this reply may have been too late already. I saw your question just now. I have been working in the area of youth and agricultural development. There are many publications in my page if you are interested. The short answer from me in the area of youth and agriculture is to ensure that the context is mapped out first. It is also important that young people should be asked as to how they would like to be involved and the direction in which they would like to be mentored. In our work, we have seen high involvement of young people in school activities that responded to the issues that they raised, i.e. in the area of youth and agriculture.
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