Young people driving networks
Beyond the Classroom
This early chapter sits in the education and network-building stream: how young people participate in, shape, and extend learning networks beyond conventional classroom settings.
What the paper argues
The chapter contributes to a collection on building new school networks. It focuses on young people not only as recipients of educational programmes, but as active participants in the social networks and learning environments around them.
Its core concern is practical and developmental: how institutions can take young people's agency seriously when designing learning relationships, partnerships, and networked forms of education.
Core contribution: Young people as active participants in educational network-building
Why it matters
The chapter matters in the wider portfolio because it is an early version of a recurring question: how institutions should be designed when agency, learning, and coordination are distributed across a network rather than contained inside one organisation.
Networks, learning, and institutions
This early publication sits behind later work on learning, work, and institutional design: how people participate in systems that shape what they can become.
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