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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Youth voice"”.
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“Fixed Mindsets” and the Deprecation of Youth Voice
… the findings showed that the deprecation of youth’s voice by adults affects youth’s sense of self-efficacy and perceived abilities to create meaningful change. It was further found that youth embrace, affirm, and desire change, but find that adults, in their words, have “fixed mindsets”. …
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A Phenomenological Study To Engage African-American Youth Voice In Deliberations Regarding Their Response To Schooling
… utilized a naturalistic approach to uncover how youth think, talk, and feel about their response to schooling. Findings are based on in-depth conversations with 12 inner city African-American kids enrolled in Urban, USA middle and high schools, rarely heard from in the scholarly literature. …
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The strength of youth voice: understanding the influence of youth strength-perspectives on desired outcomes for youth enrolled in system-of-care services
… by rhetoric around the importance of including youth and families in service planning and delivery, and attending to youth strengths in addition to pathology. However, within this treatment context, both in research and practice, many continue to prioritize adult perspectives of youth strengths …
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“I’M A KID BUT I STILL DESERVE RESPECT”: CONCEPTUALIZING YOUTH EXPERTISE
This dissertation examines how youth expertise is conceptualized, valued, and actualized within a high school afterschool program run through a center for university-community partnership. Youth expertise exists at the intersection of youth voice/participation literature and theories of expertise. …
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“Peace to kids and listen to them!” a case study in a summer art program for teens
… main themes including: immigration, bullying, voice, youth identity, soccer, geographic place, ethnicity, family, friends, the apartments, extracurricular activities, school, respect, perception of self, and economic status. The findings of this study demonstrate and support the integration of …
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Dismantling the Education-Survival Complex: A Qualitative Case Study of How High School Youth Resist Whitestream School Policies and Foster School Change Through a Youth-Development Organization
… aim of this study is to critically examine how youth resist whitestream school policies and foster educational change through community sociopolitical youth-development organizations. The methodology for this study is a qualitative case study (Fraenkel & Wallen, 1990; Merriam, 1988), as I am …
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Liberation and Inclusion Through the Voices of Trans Youth: A Phenomenological Approach
… this phenomenological study is to elevate trans youth voice to understand the essence of their individual and shared lived experiences within school systems designed for them to be silenced, excluded, and erased. In alignment with Eve Tuck’s desire-based research, this study is designed to …
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“LET US BE HEARD”: An Exploration of Youth Voices on the Fostering of Mental Wellbeing in New Zealand Secondary Schools
This thesis aims to explore youth voices on the fostering and support of youth mental wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand secondary schools. This focus stems from a local context of immensely poor – and worsening – youth mental health and wellbeing statistics and local and international literature …
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Finding success in life: the voices of at-risk youth
… of success from the perspectives of at-risk youth. Current conceptualizations of success commonly found in criminological literature are based on life course, middle-class standards of success, are problematic and marginalizing in nature, and lack youth voice. This study investigates the need …
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Libraries for social change: centering youth of color and/or LGBTQ youth in library practice
… are capable of providing meaningful services to youth made most vulnerable to the state through surveillance, policing, and incarceration. This research traces how past policies and processes that established white, middle-class, and hetero-normative conduct and knowledge as central to library …
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Making Waves: An Exploration In Learning Through Art, Science, And Making
… and providing space for the learner’s voice within education. When teaching challenging science content, it is vital to provide both a context for the knowledge and a reason for learning the content. It can be difficult to provide a learning environment that allows learners to gain an …
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Youth participation in child welfare decision making: A focused ethnography
This dissertation examines youth participation in child welfare decision-making in the context of permanency planning family team conferences. It explores the factors that influence youth attendance and participation in decision-making opportunities. It also examines the strategies conference …
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Braiding Education, Workforce, and Community: Designing Cohesive Learning Systems for Democracy and Mobility
… and institutional trust. Grounded in youth voice and lived experience, particularly youth furthest from opportunity, this integrated research–practice dissertation examines how fragmented learning and labor-market pathways are experienced and how intermediary infrastructure converts …
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Mainstream, margins and the spaces in-between: youth experiences of school exclusion in Northern Ireland
… to acknowledge the perspectives of marginalised youth and the range of informal exclusion practices leading to their removal from the mainstream system. Thus, the conceptual framework for this study draws upon psychological, sociological, and social policy discourses to position exclusion as …
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Where are the Students in Student Voice? Challenging Dominant Epistemologies in Student Voice Discourses
… framing, and implementation of student voice may have contributed to the positioning of secondary school students in education policy and leadership. Key research questions addressed whether or not there is a disconnect in how researchers, practitioners, and students define student …
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Acceptance, recognition and supported independence: Wellbeing for children and young people with a disability in New Zealand: The voice of youth with Down Syndrome
… consecutive interviews that captured children’s voice through the methods of visual sociology. Grounded theory was the basis for the analysis which produced rich data to describe the lives of these young people with Down syndrome. In addition, interviews were undertaken with parents and service …