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Positive youth development through music: El Sistema Movement

In promotion of positive youth development, as well as prevention of risk behavior, many different media can be used as a tool to deliver contest. It can be education, training, literature, dance, drama, music, etc. In this poster focus is on music and music education as a way to promote positive youth development. Influence of music on different aspect of human development is known for many years. Positive youth development, as a new way of understanding youth development that focus on youth potentials and strengths, opens the door to the music as a media to promote healthy development of youth, as well as environment they live in. El Sistema movement is a music education program with the goal of youth positive development promotion and increasing equal opportunities for children in risk/vulnerable children (Tunstall, 2012). During the years, El Sistema has expanded through the world. El Sistema based programs are close to the positive youth development philosophy and have proven effects in building self-esteem, prosocial values, responsibility, bonding, competence, resilience, academic achievement, employability, conflict resolution, social involvement, etc. (Cuesta and al., 2007, Michael, 2012, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, 2015). Evaluation results also showed that there is an influence on communities such programs were implemented in (1) creating more, better paid jobs in a strong, sustainable economy, (2) building a fairer community and tackling inequality and (3) passing power to people and communities (Glasgow Centre for Population Health, 2015). Programs inspired by El Sistema all over the world have given good results regarding influence in individual level as well as influence in community level. Croatian program SoDo inspired by El Sistema will be presented in the poster as well as other initiatives close to its philosophy.

positive youth development, influence of music on youth development, El Sistema movement, evaluation results

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