understanding teen culture

Undnding

yo cuMonday, 23 November 2009

Monday, 23 November 2009

?To what extent do you think that the young people you work with don’t really know what kind of people they are?


?What do you think are the most significant aspects of youth culture?


5 ‘S’s


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speed Monday, 23 November 2009

fast food


instant solutions


rapid results


instant satisfaction


entertainment on tap


love at first sight


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shopping


major leisure activity


unlimited choice


off-the-shelf creativity


defining ourselves by

what we buy


selfMonday, 23 November 2009

I can do what I want


I can be who I want


success


?What are the implications of these aspects of culture for working with teens?


stimulation


mediaMonday, 23 November 2009

torrent


♥mediaMonday, 23 November 2009

♥filmMonday, 23 November 2009

♥tvMonday, 23 November 2009

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17 hours a week


♥webMonday, 23 November 2009

control


convenience


comfort


creativity


coolness


web 2.0


youtube


40%Monday, 23 November 2009

facebook


twitter


nomadicity


It is an omnivorous freedom, freedom to behold, to seek distraction, to seek distraction from distraction . . . to enjoy one’s rootlessness, to relish the evanescent.

Todd Gitlin


fun


stimulation


feelings


The most important thing about the communications we live among is that . . . they saturate our way of life with a promise of feeling.

Todd GitlinMedia Unlimited (2002)


satisfaction


The media shape ourreality


‘the frantic desire for the almost real’Umberto Eco


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• give us images to aspire to


?What are the implications of this for working with young people?

What can we do to help them?


5 dimsions ink abo


EmotionsMonday, 23 November 2009

Aesthetics


Beauty

TranscendenceHope


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morality


beliefs


Worldviews


Spirituality


What am I being encouraged to

believe? What values am I being encouraged to

adopt?

How am I being encouraged to live?

What does the Bible say?


www.damaris.org

www.culturewatch.org

www.tonywatkins.org

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r n?


r God?


Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. . . . Love your neighbour as yourself.

Mark 12:30–31, NIV


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No single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest, and there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’

Abraham Kuyper


osion


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Humans are God’s image-bearers

Humans are rebels against God

Culture is

wonderful!

CULTURE IS TERRIBLEMonday, 23 November 2009

Identifying points of

contact


Identifying points of

tension


Do not conform to the pattern of this world. (Romans 12:1)


be real


the pressure to

conform


expose


wrong thinking


encourage


Christian thinking


Christian values


prepare


for engaging the world


www.damaris.org

www.culturewatch.org

www.tonywatkins.org

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