Intergenerational Conflict and Authentic Youth Experience: Adults Denigrating Young People

This book explores how the youth experience, viscerally felt and deeply ingrained at a time of substantial physical, psychological and emotional changes, serves to authenticate that youth experience to the exclusion of that of ensuing youth generations.

Barney Langford is a retired teacher and youth arts practitioner. He is the founding Artistic Director of 2 Til 5 Youth Theatre (now Tantrum Youth Arts), one of Australia’s leading professional youth arts companies. He was for 15 years the Manager of the Loft Youth Arts and Cultural Centre. He lectured part time at University of Newcastle 1990-2003. He was awarded his doctorate in 2020 and his doctoral dissertation is the basis for this monograph. Barney’s interests include youth arts, youth studies and psephology.