Notes taken at Winter School in Pretoria during May 2000 - the speaker was Kenda Creasy Dean, assistant professor of youth ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary. The session began with a simulation game where small groups of 8 people were required to create a group sculpture. Each group had to portray the realities of youth, church, local and global culture. For them it is common.
Youth are mostly optimistic about globalisation.
At Risk youth tend to draw tighter boundaries around themselves - they are less aware of globalisation than other youth. As leaders we need to be aware of globalisation so that we can relate to our context. The experience of the world as a single place. A Change in Culture - we now have a global culture which through the media is in competition with local culture. Today local cultures are less determinative in influencing behaviour.