COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND CIVIC PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM RESITA
Abstract
In the context in which a series of imperatives of pubic politics at a national level are not in agreement with the wishes, aspirations and feelings of common people, community development is identified more with interventions axed on the cultivation of a local democracy with a high degee of pariticipation and public politics initiated by citizens. Community development is correlated with an associative activity at a local level that has as finality an upwards approach of the elaboration of public politics. Actions of community development refer to a more complex process with a higher degree of awarness and analysis. From the stages of this process we can not miss a process of identification of youngs’ needs and aspirations, reason for which in this paper we will presend an analysis of the needs of young people from Resita that aim their civic knowledge, abilities and atitudes in connection to a civic participation. This analysis may represent a starting point for the development of an efficient strategy of development of politics for young people.References
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