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This book is designed for readers who care about their communities and are willing to create institutions and negotiate for meaningful roles for young people (cf. Rabkin and Redmond 2004). Explanations supported by theory and research from across the disciplines address the need to think and to think hard about where and how the arts and young people fit together and in concert with moral reason, societal inclusion and environmental justice. To do otherwise is to risk denying the benefits that can come from the ingenious insights and seemingly endless energies and imaginative powers of the young. This book calls on us to think beyond “using” the arts for instrumental redirection of young individuals seen as being out-of-step with the larger society.