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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Rural youth"”.
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An alternative employment strategy for rural youth
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1980.
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Rural youth worldviews about social justice and social action
… of this research was to explore components of rural adolescents’ social justice and social action (SJSA) worldviews. The research paradigm included influences from constructivist-interpretivist (e.g., Ponterotto, 2005), critical (e.g., Liu, 2014), and pragmatic (e.g., Savin-Baden & Major, 2014) …
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The middle of nowhere : town design and sense of community in rural youth
… in close proximity, affect sense of community in rural youth? The findings of this study, at least in part, support the new urbanist theory. Students in an area with a strong center do appear to display stronger feelings of basic need fulfillment, membership, and more positive feelings in general …
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Barriers for rural youth accessing mental health care with complex or reduced parental support
Youth mental health continues to grow as a topic of interest amongst academics and healthcare professionals. However, many fail to posit the nuances of youth growing up in a rural setting and the barriers that are faced when seeking access to mental health care. Thus, this analysis focuses on one …
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A capability-informed policy analysis of higher education access for rural youth in Botswana
… policy analysis of higher education access for rural youth in Botswana, focused on rural youth’s experiences with arrangements with access in higher education to identify capabilities and constrain factors of access for the rural youth in Botswana. The mixed-method study found that factors …
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The Effects of Two Educational Methods and Message Themes on Rural Youth Smoking Behavior
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Exploring perceptions of rural youth participation in political elections: A case study of Thulamela Municipality
… revealed a concerning trend: South African youth increasingly became disinterested in participating in political processes, particularly elections. This study investigated the phenomenon of voter apathy among South African youth, focusing specifically on factors that influenced this …
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Exploring the educational aspirations of rural youth: an image-based study using participant produced photographs
… study was to explore how students in one rural ninth grade classroom perceive their home, school, and community environments as supporting and/or inhibiting their educational aspirations. The approach allowed students to describe their reality in a tangible visual manner by studying; what …
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Influencers and Barriers to Consumption of Healthful Diets in Rural Youth in Context of the Bioecological Model
… and barriers to healthful dietary intake in rural youth in context of the bioecological model. Four focus groups as part of Ignite, a tri-state, five-year, community based partipatory research (CBPR) intervention were conducted with 6th to 8th grade adolescents from an economically …
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A study of the educational and vocational goals of two hundred eighty-five rural youth in Virginia
… and vocational goals of a selected sample of rural youth and the goals of their parents for them. Factors considered were sex, residence (farm or non-farm), level of living, size of family, and membership in certain rural youth organizations. The sample consisted of 285 ninth and tenth grade …
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Unemployment among rural youth in South Africa : A case study of Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
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Exploring the perceptions of rural youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) on factors that influence their employability
Young people in rural areas bear the brunt of unemployment in South Africa. This is because many of them do not have access to the relevant opportunities and information needed to help them transition into adulthood roles and the labour market. The restricted access to opportunities poses as a …
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An exploratory study of factors associated with adult residence and occupation of rural youth graduating from two Michigan high schools
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University, 1956
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Building capacity of rural youth and extension workers in agriculture as a business: evidence from a field experiment in Malawi
… propensity, and expected wages of youth in rural Malawi. Historically, the role of youth in agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa has been severely limited due to a variety of political, social, and economic factors. In general, youth have limited access to land, capital, political …
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The Analysis of Extracurricular Activities and Parental Monitoring and Their Relationship to Youth Violence
… activities and parental monitoring relate to rural youth violence. Gender differences were examined across all of the study variables. Self-report data were collected from 235 teenagers from a rural, ethnically diverse, Virginia community. Correlations revealed a significant inverse …
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Identity and Place: Exploring the Complexities Between Rural Education, Community, and Queerness
… manuscripts explore the intersections of rural education, community influences, and diverse identities by challenging rural monoliths and deficits while working to address opportunity gaps for rural youth and educators. Theories throughout this work include critical pedagogies of place …
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Limits of Liberation: Youth and Politics in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement
… young people’s involvement in Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement, the MST, during the twilight of the PT years, 2012-2014. The MST responds to displacement, environmental devastation, and capital- intensive development by fighting for land reform and socialist transformation. Although the …
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Linking community variables to parenting behaviours and youth risk behaviours
… (i.e., monitoring, warmth, and knowledge) and to youth risk behavior (i.e., substance use and delinquency), measured both concurrently and one year after the assessment of parenting variables. The model builds on the work of Fletcher, Steinberg, and Williams-Wheeler (2004) but a) includes a more …
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Parents' aspirations for their children's education and vocations as measured by a sample of Virginia families
… and vocational goals of a selected sample of rural youth; relationship of the parents' goals for their children to the childrens' goals; and a study of the relationships of sex, farm residence, membership in certain youth organizations, and level of living to these goals. Subjects were 49 …
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