Much work on youth participation, especially when colonising new ground, creeps forward incrementally through small, often innovative exploration, involving low risk, self-contained and time-limited tasks or projects led by a few passionate proponents.
Over the next few weeks, we look at what happens as the landscape begins to alter because of such pioneering activity and what is needed to sustain participation beyond these early phases of development.
Short stories from a range of museums show how progress has colonised new ground this past year by paying particular attention to shared values, style of leadership, and skills and knowledge.
This emphasis, rather than simply tweaking structures, systems and strategies, suggests hope of sustained success, based on learning from Peters and Waterman's seven standards model (1982), on which Hear by Right is based and which underpins recent participation programmes across museums.
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