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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Youth Studies"”.
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A study of undergraduate drinking behavior, attitudes, and membership in Greek letter social organizations
… part of college life for many students. Numerous studies have shown the prevalence of alcohol use by undergraduates. Fewer studies have focused on the use of alcohol by members of fraternities and sororities. There are no studies presently available which explore the motivations for drinking or …
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Dogged Optimism: Striving and Waiting in Rural Chinese Students’ Negotiations of Social Mobility
… has become a compelling imperative for rural youth in contemporary China. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from Global South youth studies and the sociology of education, this dissertation focuses on the role of education in shaping rural students’ life trajectories. It also …
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Literacy Intervention for Struggling Readers: Knowledge Mobilization in our Communities
… an upper year undergraduate course in Child and Youth Studies. In this course, university students worked with children from the local community. The study collected quantitative and qualitative data from children, parents and Brock students. The study also examined the concept of knowledge …
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(Un)making deserving citizens: Education, activism, and military service of undocumented Korean immigrant young adults
… undocumented minority and the notion of an ideal youth-citizen, I document their genuine contributions to social change, particularly through their activism, in an era of increased anti-immigrant legislation. Informed by interdisciplinary insights from education policy studies, global studies, …
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Aspiring to Citizenship: African Immigrant Youth and Civic Engagement in Cape Town, South Africa
… addresses the question how do African immigrant youth experience life and live as ‘citizens 'in Cape Town? African immigrant youth straddle multiple positions, localities and identities: insider, outsider, victim, perpetrator, dependent, independent, child, adult. This dissertation examines the …
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From Street Life to Community Life
… a final question: “What would you want all youth workers who work with young Black people to understand more accurately or correctly?” All of the interviews were then coded for major themes and sub-themes after member checking my understandings with the participants. The findings and their …
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The perceptions of youth on service delivery violence in Mpumalanga Province
The study focused on the perceptions of youth based in Wesselton and Siyathemba townships (Mpumalanga Province) towards service delivery violence. The aim of the study was to identify the challenges and the concerns of protestors and to highlight the perceptions of the youth about the causes of …
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“It Belongs to Us”: Chinese Youth’s Imagined Futures
… a significant area of research in sociology and youth studies, providing insights into youth identities, agency, and autonomy. In western academia, researchers have adopted a dual approach to exploring imagined futures, distinguishing between short-term, personal futures and long-term, societal …
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Compassion at the Core: Reimagining Schools as Centers of Human Flourishing Through Youth-Led Action Research
… study draws on critical pedagogy and critical youth studies to implement action research in partnership with youth researchers, positioning students as co-constructors of knowledge rather than subjects of study. Dialogue served as a central means of participation and consciousness-raising, …
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Young people's geographies in rural post-socialist Germany: a case study in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
… a wider call in the area of childhood and youth studies to acknowledge both, structural conditions that characterise young people's lives and young people's agency (see James, Jenks & Prout 1998; Holloway & Valentine 2000) to analyse the complexity of young people's geographies. …
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Call it a Revolution: Paradox, Politics and Security in the Urban Frontier An intergenerational narrative on the young female comrade’s resistance, political action and civil death in South Africa and Turkey
Fundamentally, this thesis is about multiple crises of state, and the revolutionary efforts to transcend them and face the paradox of politics. That is, the paradox of creating new political beginnings out of and upon a ‘politics out of history’ (Brown, 2001). To address these themes, I focus on …
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Youth Politics between Informality and State Violence in Nairobi, Kenya.
This thesis explores the complex politics of youth in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, as they negotiate between a globalized neoliberal economy and a very localized regime of state violence carried out by police. Situating youth politics in Kenya’s post-independence political history, it …
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Qualitative Inquiry into the Everyday Experiences of Secondary School Students within Significant Spheres of their Lifeworld: Family, Friends and School – Narratives from Lahore
… in the interdisciplinary field of Global South Youth Studies, this study aims to understand the everyday experiences of a few young people from Lahore. Focusing on young people in secondary schools, this exploratory qualitative inquiry is based on interviews with 19 girls and 15 boys, ranging in …
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Statemaking Through Distant Presence in the Urban Periphery. An exploration of Scaled Education Actors Negotiating Possible Futures in a Changing Sociopolitical Landscape in Chile.
The education system in Chile has been a paradigmatic case of implementing privatisation policies in schooling to the detriment of public education. Nevertheless, during the last decade, following a series of high-school student protests, the country has been slowly implementing remedial policies …
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MOOD: A Zine Exploring the Value of Youth-Oriented Media
… fraction of the demographics they serve.</p> <p>Youth denote one of the most frequently misrepresented groups, with very few practical opportunities for young people to make decisions about the texts available to them. A jarring absence of youth participation in media creation at all levels …
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Adapting to Parental Investment Uncertainty? The Role of Personality and Puberty
Early childhood experiences of parental investment uncertainty appear to influence later dating and sexuality in girls. Research has suggested that this relationship is mediated by the timing of pubertal development. This thesis investigated whether personality traits also mediated this …
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Back to School, Back to Normal? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Childhood Cancer Survivors and their Families Throughout the School Re-Entry Process
This study investigated parent and child perspectives of childhood cancer survivors' return to school. Four specific areas were examined including cognitive and academic concerns, social issues, perceived support, and the impact on siblings. Participants consisted of parents and childhood cancer …
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