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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Youth experiences"”.
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Youth experiences using the South African financial system
… & Rauktis, 2014). Rather than compare the experiences of the included against those who are excluded, this research explored the experiences of young people who are already included in the financial system to understand which broader social dynamics contribute towards young people's …
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Youth Experiences of Organized Activities and Violence: Trends and Interrelationships
Organized youth activities contribute to positive development by engaging with a favorable and supervised social environment. This dissertation research explored the influence of organized youth activities such as school-based, community-based, and faith-based activities on youth violence such as …
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Understanding youth experiences in Mitchells Plain: a narrative photovoice investigation
… by violence or the threat of it. Research with youth has historically focussed on educational attainment, employment, and risk factors for disease. Such scholarship, which is frequently decontextualised, offers limited insights into how adolescents' identities are formed in response to the …
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A Critical Reflection: Foster Care Youth Experiences at a Four Year Postsecondary Institution
Foster care youth face significant challenges to postsecondary educational success, especially while enrolled at four-year institutions. Foster care youth are absent of family support that their non-foster peers receive throughout the college experience. Without family support, foster care youth …
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Mainstream, margins and the spaces in-between: youth experiences of school exclusion in Northern Ireland
… of the term. As such the complexity of exclusion experiences and the oppressive relational dynamics leading to its use, are under-explored. Instead, in most research, students who exhibit challenging behaviour are categorised into social groups that are unreflective of, and at times unrelated to, …
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Child and Youth Experiences within Shaking the Movers Workshops: A Discourse Analysis of Canadian UNCRC Implementation Efforts
… as a tool to identify and critique children’s experiences of rights and recognize how adult power relations impact them (Scraton, 1997). The Foucauldian analysis is guided by the sociology of childhood for a more extensive critical review of this database and to facilitate a wider understanding …
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Getting the message: a transcendental phenomenology of youth experiences of persuasive (partisan) and informative (non-partisan) campaigns during the 2019 Canadian and United Kingdom general elections.
Low youth voter turnout has potentially negative implications for healthy democracies and is therefore a widely researched topic in political communications. The concern is that if young people experience alienation and disenfranchisement from political processes, and in particular, electoral …
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Autistic Youth Experiences of Coerced Assimilation in the Context of Enforced "Social Skills" Practice: Findings and recommendations from a mixed-methods participatory analysis project
Autistic youth are driven by people around them (peers, educators, authorities) to perform “normality” overtop of themselves to avoid ostracization and punishment — this is Autistic Masking. Sometimes, masking of Autistic traits is formally taught through “Social Skills” classes or therapies. This …
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"We are a part of nature and we must care for it”: an investigation of co-design and youth experiences in nature-based interventions for wellbeing and environmental stewardship
… to the unique needs of each cultural context, on youth mental health, nature connectedness, and pro-environmental behaviour. Using a mixed-methods approach, survey data suggested increases in nature connectedness post-intervention, while focus group analysis identified five key themes: 1) Pathways …
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Basketball Court Counter-Stories from Youth in Public Housing: A Critical Race Approach
… the status quo and highlight participant experiences with racism, and its intersections with oppression and marginality. These counter-stories highlight the importance of sport and, in particular, the community basketball/sport court, as a significant place in the lives of young people in …
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The influence of sport type and interdependence on the growth experiences of young male athletes
… interdependence were associated with the growth experiences of select level male basketball players (n = 150) and distance runners (n = 98), aged 14 to 17 years. This study also examined how growth experiences were related to the outcomes of enjoyment and burnout. Athletes completed the Youth …
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Seeing Resilience: A Qualitative and Arts-Based Research Study to Understand Images Made in a Photography-Based Mentoring Program
… study focused on understanding the phenomenon of youth and adult experiences in self-efficacy, mentoring relationships, and connection to the program community as they cumulatively contribute to youth resilience in a photography-based mentoring program. The present study aimed to validate and …
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"Somewhere I'm Allowed to Exist as Myself": A Grounded Theory Exploration of Queer and Trans Young Adults Navigating Family Rejection and Housing Instability
… young people are overrepresented among youth and young adults experiencing homelessness and housing instability. Families' rejection of their youth's queer and transgender identities is one of the causes of this overrepresentation, as families force young people out of the home or create …
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Forever Ephemeral? – An Exploratory Analysis of Youth Self-presentation with Instagram Stories in the Context of Visual Mobile Communication
… Stories in the self-presentation of the youth born in the 21st century (aged 18-22 years old). A more focused set of specific objectives, also directly connected to the previous RQs, reflects on the contribution to theory, analyzes the ephemeral images, and describes the characteristics …
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Balancing Two Worlds: Female Indo-Fijian Immigrant Youth in Their Public and Private Domains and the Emergence of the New Hybridity
… an increase it is vital to understand immigrant youth experiences in terms of how they express their national and cultural identity, how they negotiate different expectations of their host and homeland cultures, and how they identify themselves at a personal level. Many immigrant youths are faced …
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Exploring how youth experience and perceive peer social support at a holistic youth development programme in the Western Cape: the Chrysalis academy
In this study, the main goal was to explore youth experiences and perceptions of peer social support in the Western Cape region of South Africa at the Chrysalis Academy youth programme. The youth in the Western Cape face many obstacles to their development such as gangsterism, drugs, unemployment, …
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Analyzing the Motivational Needs of Volunteerism Among Virginia Adult 4-H Volunteers
… 4-H volunteers? 5. What are the most prevalent youth experiences influencing adult 4-H volunteerism in Virginia 4-H? Data were collected from 296 Virginia 4-H volunteers via a 20-item questionnaire utilizing McClelland's Trichotomy of Needs Theory. The results showed that the top three motives …
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An exploration of the relationship between financial inclusion and the wellbeing of youth in South Africa
In South Africa, where 55.2 percent of youth are without a job, financial inclusion has been put forward as a way to tackle unemployment and the grinding poverty and inequality that come with it. The salient features of the discourses on financial inclusion tend to focus on increasing the …
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A welfare deservingness approach to the COVID-19 grant: an exploration of the social and economic experiences of unemployed youth in South Africa
For the longest time, South African youth have not been prioritized in social protection policies (Barford, Coutts, & Sahai, 2021). However, given the current socioeconomic depravations, it can be argued that young people meet the criteria of neediness required to be considered for a permanent …