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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"youth engagement"”.
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Moral identity, youth engagement, and discussions with parents and peers /
… of social responsibility, frequency of community engagement, and interactions with parents and friends. Participants were 191 applicants to national youth conferences, ranging in age from 14-19, who completed a 40-minute survey. 76% of the participants were female. Social responsibility, community …
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Participation Through Political Education. A mixed methods study assessing the utility of an inclusive democratic promotion framework for enhancing youth engagement interventions.
… allure’ of liberal democracies continue, the youth cohort have come to typify the decline in quality within established democracies and have been central targets of interventions and initiatives to re-engage. Focus has centred around traditional barriers at the state- citizen level, with less …
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Knowledge -the Fifth Element of Hip Hop Music: Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth Engagement of Hip Hop as Critically Rac(ed) Education Discourse
… among Mexican and Puerto Rican youth in Chicago, schooling, and hip hop music as critical pedagogy. Using Critical Race and Latino Critical Race theories, the author conducted a multi-methodological qualitative study with twenty Mexican and Puerto Rican youth in Chicago analyzing …
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Creating, Implementing, and Evaluating the Use of a Food Science and Technology 5E Based Curriculum Impact on Underrepresented Minority Youth Engagement in Science
Increasing underrepresented minority youth (URMY) engagement in STEM education remains at the forefront of our Nation's educational battle. The aim of this study was to create, implement, and evaluate the impact of innovative food science and technology (FST) lesson plans on URMY engagement in, and …
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More Than Road Trips and Rangers in Flat Hats: Recognizing Millennial Perceptions of the National Park Service to Effectively Engage the Next Generation of Park Stewards
… resources. The NPS has a long history of youth engagement and outreach, in both natural and cultural resources, illustrating its importance to the agency. Looking to the future, it is imperative that the NPS supports youth engagement and outreach in a more productive and inclusive way.
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Understanding the Role of Researchers in Engaging and Communicating Sciences with Inuit Youth
… a keen interest in engaging with Inuit youth, they often lack the resources and communication skills to do so. This study aims to assess the perspectives of experts on the role of researchers in engaging and communicating sciences with Inuit youth. This study was conducted using …
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Exploring Thriving of Inuit Youth Through an Engagement Lens: A Strengths-Based Focus on Factors Related to Nunavummiut Youth's Participation in a Psycho-Educational Mental Health Project
… have investigated strategies to support Inuit youth engagement in mental wellness using a strengths-based, culturally grounded approach. Existing literature primarily focuses on environmental science and addresses solely physical and educational barriers. The current study aimed to identify …
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Exploring Cultural Identity and Engagement among Hispanic Youth: Implications for Food Justice and Food System Development
… have plagued this population, especially the youth. In recent years, Georgetown, Delaware has become a major immigration hub, seeing large populations of Hispanics migrating to the area. Like many locations which see large numbers of individuals of a particular ethnic group not known to the …
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Leadership and Communication as Opportunities for Growth: Refining Discipline with Cross Cultural Relationships beyond the Classroom
… environments that work to promote positive youth engagement. It is vital that schools offer a fair and supportive system of discipline that does not intentionally or unintentionally undermine the cultural, emotional, and mental well being of scholars of color by engaging in overly punitive …
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Ur-ban : the effects and influence of rapid urbanisation on young adults
… people have confided in me, given my role as a youth worker. The literature accompanying this study highlights urbanisation's various impacts and forces on young adults. It also includes a discussion that delves into the evolving requirements of young people in response to these transformations. …
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Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs to improve mental health service provision to high-risk youth : evaluation of the Peel Youth Counsellor Program
… development, implementation, and evaluation of a youth counselling program with an innovative service delivery model influenced by Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. The Peel Youth Counsellor Program (PYCP) is a promotion, prevention and early intervention program conceived as a result of an identified …
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A blueprint for building a multi-generational movement for social transformation in Boston
… economic development, community organizing, and youth development fields. I first describe the current state of the community economic development field - its failings to provide real material improvements in the lives for low-income people of color in the U.S., particularly in its current …
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Positive Risk Taking in Adolescence
… it is also important for society to promote youth engagement in positive risk behaviors that may benefit the well-being of adolescents and those around them. The present study explored positive risk taking in a sample of 164 American adolescents (45% female) ages 16-20 (M = 17.9; SD = .72). …
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Increasing Polarization of the Youth Vote
… passage with those who seek to suppress the youth vote. A historical analysis will look deeper into how those battles were won with the ultimate passage of the amendment. Using a mixed methodology approach including a quantitative analysis of polling data and a qualitative analysis of …
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Feasibility and Acceptability of an Open Trial Peer-Supported Mental Health Program for High School Youth
For many youths, schools are often the primary site to receive mental health care given these services are typically free, do not require travel to a clinic, and are embedded within the environment where youth spend most of their day. Growing evidence indicates that peer-supported treatments can …
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Learning for development through co-operation: the engagement of youth with co-operatives in Lesotho and Uganda
… 2011 designated the United Nations Year of the Youth and 2012 the Year of the Co-operative this research contributes to issues raised by these two significant and timely events. The renaissance of co-operatives globally and their revival in countries in Africa has promoted interest and debate …
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Building communities through communication: Understanding community development success and failure using a narrative approach
… four points: entrepreneurship, leadership, youth engagement, and local wealth or philanthropic giving. The impetus for this study is the pilot program’s need for a better understanding of the manner in which participating groups might generate engagement from external community members. To …
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Cognitive Engagement Across Academic and Extracurricular Activities
… middle childhood through adolescence, school disengagement tends to increase, placing some adolescents at risk of drop out (Archambault et al., 2022; Widlund et al., 2021). Youth engagement involves active participation both inside and outside of school settings, including involvement in …
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Computer as chalk : cultivating and sustaining communities of youth as designers of tangible user interfaces
… and participants adopt over time to sustain youth engagement in technology-rich learning activities: creator, co-learner, collaborator, coach, and colleague. This dissertation reports on my investigation that took place in two after-school technology centers over a five-year period. Two sets …
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Advancing a Youth-Centered Pedagogy that Fosters Physical Literacy by Working with Youth and YMCA Recreation Providers
… offers a holistic view of the factors affecting youth participation. Limited research has explored pedagogical approaches that can support youth physical literacy and engagement in recreational sport and physical activity contexts. This dissertation investigates pedagogical approaches aimed at …
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