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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Childhood and Youth"”.
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The autobiography of childhood and youth from Fontane to Carossa: Four case studies
The literary autobiography of childhood is an extension of the literary autobiography, portraying the distilled essence of the author's life. The autobiography of childhood is distinct from autobiographical fiction but includes more than the "poetical" childhood. Jean Starobinski's model of the …
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Appealing to the Middlebrow Reader: Changes Made to Richard Wright's Black Boy
… Black Boy (American Hunger) A Record of Childhood and Youth. The book's original format underwent a couple of major changes in order to be accepted by The Book-of-the-Month Club, which were the elimination of the entire second half dealing with Wright's time in the North and the rewriting …
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You Can Go Home, But Only to Visit: Nostalgia and the Personal Essay
… of nostalgia, or longing for an idealized place and time, is viewed as a result of the need to find personal identity within a community and a geographic location in a contemporary world where people are increasingly mobile and isolated. This introduction examines the actual process of writing …
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Multiple childhood geographies: giving voice to young people's experience of place
… draws attention to the diverse meanings and values of groups in society, however, despite a growing interest in the geographies of children and youth, there have been few recent empirical studies investigating young people’s experience of place. In particular, comparatively little is …
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Citizens of Tomorrow, Today: Political Futurity and Youth Citizenship in a High School Student Council
… are ubiquitous in North American high schools, and yet, they are often overlooked as a site of youth citizenship and student leadership. This dissertation explores the affective dimensions of youth citizenship and student leadership, focusing on a student council in an urban high school in …
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Teenage citizenship geographies: Rural spaces of exclusion, education and creativity
… of the secondary school curriculum in England. This policy development launches new interest in the spatial politics of childhood and youth. With increased focus on teenage apathy and declining civic engagement, citizenship education centres upon creating future responsible citizens. Using …
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A Page Without Borders: the transnational world of youth correspondence pages in New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1880-1920
This thesis examines the vast world of anglophone youth correspondence pages in New Zealand, Australia and Canada during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. A hugely popular feature within family periodicals, youth correspondence pages contained letters written by young people of …
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Wildhoods: Bioregionalism and the Child Figure in Contemporary Canadian Literature
… nature, collections such as Sidney I. Dobrin and Kenneth B. Kidd’s Wild Things: Children’s Culture and Ecocriticism (2004) and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Phillip G. Payne, and Alan Reid’s Experiencing Environment and Place through Children’s Literature (2011) emphasize the significance of …
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Young people's geographies in rural post-socialist Germany: a case study in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
… the groups most severely affected by declining standards of welfare and by the rise of socio-economic inequalities in post-socialist communities (see Brake & Buchner 1996; McAuley 1995; Kollmorgen 2003). This thesis aims to address this gap by analysing the way rural young people in the East …
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The Background, Formation, Development, and Presentation of Ellen White's Concept of Forgiveness From Her Childhood to 1864
… reveal a pronounced emphasis on sanctification and holiness. They do not set forth a clear and comprehensive presentation of her concept of forgiveness. The purpose of this study is to explicate her concept of forgiveness as presented in her writings to 1864 in the light of the background, …
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Twice Forty Years Of Learning: An Educational Biography of Robert Reid Howison (1820-1906)
… Virginia lawyer, minister, historian, and author, and to examine Howison's efforts as an educator. Chapter One presents an approach to the study, guiding questions, and the research methodology of educational biography. Chapter Two examines Howison's learning experiences during his …
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Análise documental nos processos de execução de medidas socioeducativas em meio aberto na cidade de Itabuna/BA
… parenthood the school evasion, the low schooling and the gap in relation to age x grade, the structural racism, the racial and socioeconomic inequalities, the gender relations, the criminal selectivity on grounds of race, social condition and other, as the verification of socioeconomic, …
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Genius or Charlatanry? - A psychobiographical reinterpretation of the life and works of Buckminster Fuller
… (1895–1983) is hailed as a visionary futurist and polymath. While he is best known as the inventor of the geodesic dome, he is also appreciated as an important pioneer of ecological design and a front-running ecological thinker in general. Fuller's many titles include academician, architect, …
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Learning to resist: exploring habitus (trans)formation of critical teacher-activists before 1994
This study aims to understand the enabling conditions for the emergence of teacher activism before South Africa's democratic transition in the 1990s. It does so by examining the life experiences of four teacher activists that became politically active in their childhood and youth, and who entered …
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L¿ESECUZIONE DELLA PENA E L¿ORDINAMENTO PENITENZIARIO PER IMINORENNI: L¿EVOLUZIONE E LE NUOVE PROSPETTIVE ALLA LUCEDEL D.LGS. 2 OTTOBRE 2018, N. 121
… the regulation of the execution of the sentence, and particularly the prison system, in respect of juvenile offenders (rectius: those who had not reached the age of majority, at the time of the commission of the offence), in the light of the enactment of Legislative Decree No 121 of 2 October …
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MOOD: A Zine Exploring the Value of Youth-Oriented Media
… persistent force in human lives that informs and influences through published, broadcasted, and digitally mediated formats. Mass media industries produce and distribute content consumed by diverse audiences, though the facilitators represent only a fraction of the demographics they serve.</p> …
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Dancing, Mindfulness, and Our Emotions: Embracing the Mind, Body, and Sole
… project examines dance, as an intervention and mindfulness practice that assists with managing our emotions. There is a need for dance therapy in social institutions such as, healthcare facilities, schools, and community centers. Dance therapy has the potential to reduce negative emotions, …