Going back to the drawing board: the intersection of gender and sexual diversity, at-promise youth, and non-formal education

This paper is a prelude of my PhD research and a synopsis of its Introduction and Literature Review chapters. My PhD research is affected by the interpretive phenomenological frameworks and explores the lived experiences of at-promise youth in their understandings of gender identity and sexual diversity within non-formal education contexts. At-promise youth is a strength-based replacement term for at-risk youth, referring generally to young people who face situational circumstances that the society believe will inevitably lead to their personal and professional failures. This paper focuses on the narrative of portraying the workspace and backgrounds of social service and welfare work in the context of Taiwan. This paper concludes by offering a structure on GSD for non-formal education to employ community-based interventions as stimuli to equip at-promise youth with abilities to apply in social situations and enable better generalisation of acquired skills.