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Can Youth Engagement Save Democracy?

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Uploaded by on Nov 12, 2009

Watch the lively debate at the 2008 Battle of Ideas with the Liberal MP Lynne Featherstone telling us 'we are lazy' and like to vote from the couch for pop idol not in a polling booth. Dr Tony Breslin, chief executive of the Citizenship Foundation, argues for a citizen rich curriculum and teacher Kevin Rooney emphasizes the role young people have played in leading political change from the Bolshevik revolution to Tiananmen Square to voting en masse for Obama. Schools he argues are not the place to make up for the political failure of a disconnected elite.

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  • why on earth would you end a video with that?? 2 stars. You might have woken my roommate

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