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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"youth voices"”.
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The Power of Youth Voices: Uncovering Political and Social and Political Change by Youth in the 20th Century
… “To What Extent did Grassroots Movements and Youth Civic Engagement contribute to the wave of social and political Change in the 20th Century”? I make the argument that without the efforts of young people during the 20th century, the country would not have evolved into the country we see it as …
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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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Fostering Strengths: Using Testimonios to Identify Community Cultural Wealth in Foster Youth
<p>Foster youth voices have been silenced in schools, work environments, and many other settings.There is very little research around what works well for foster youth and what their assets are. Foster youth have many skills and resources that they use to navigate systems that continually …
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Beyond the Headlines: Exploring Media Portrayal of Youth Climate Change Activists
… biggest global threat to our planet today and youth will bear the brunt of this threat (Currie & Deschênes, 2016). Recently, we have seen youth stand up and become activists for climate. This qualitative study was conducted on media representations of youth climate change activists because of …
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Swinging towards intentionality: Exploring the process of life skills development in seasonal camp staff at a sport-based PYD camp using creative non-fictions
… et al., 2025; Warner et al., 2021) to centre youth voices and perspectives, creative analytical practice was employed, resulting in the creation of three creative non-fictions. These creative nonfictions amplified the staff’s perspectives of developing life skills within the camp contexts. …
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“Liberdade, força e dar a volta por cima”: um estudo de caso sobre o Projeto Lugar de Fala na Comunidade de Atendimento Socioeducativo Feminina do Estado da Bahia
… out the institutional challenges for integrating youth voices into formal processes. It is concluded that the concept of locus of speech, grounded in Black feminism and decolonial thought and linked to the right to participation, constitutes a fundamental strategy to promote qualified listening in …
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Talking Back to the ELPAC: Resilient Resistance and (Re)Imagining Through YPARt
… students based on language and race dismiss the voices and lived experiences of English learners (ELs) through forced fits and ideologies that devalue multiple languaging and ways of knowing. This qualitative study explores how an educator and 20 seventh-grade bi/multilingual Latinx students …
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Getting into Character: Cultivating Identities in a Teen-theatre Peer-education Program
… documents the successes of such programs while youth participate, few document the longer-term impacts of such participation (Saldaña, McCammon, Omasta, & Hines, 2011). Data reveal how such involvement informed the youths' developing social and interpersonal lives, and their broader …
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Understanding What Matters Most to Immigrant Youth Living with Mental Health Concerns: A Community Priority Setting Activity in Alberta
… concerns affect about one in five Canadian youth. Youth make up 19.2% of the Canadian population and according to Statistics Canada (2016), 37.5% of these Canadian youth belong to immigrant families. With an immigrant identity, the experience of displacement, trauma, stigma, and racism can …
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Whatever you can do is the best thing: insights into how youth in personalized learning environments perceive civic engagement
… that may better support civic engagement in youth like personalized learning. Currently there is a narrative in the research that young people are civically disengaged or are unprepared to be active and engaged citizens. Despite this narrative, there is evidence that youth may be …
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A Case Study of Political Participation in District-Level LGBTQ-Inclusive Policymaking
… I examine how wide-ranging individuals including youth activists, parents, educators, medical professionals, religious leaders, and self-identified Hispanic/Latino, and Latina/Latinx community members, with differing views of sex education lobbied for and against the proposed adoption of a set of …
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Youth perceptions on business climate for the establishment and expansion of rural-based small-scale enterprises in Makhado Municipality
… given that there are persistent calls for youth to create jobs through running small-scale businesses. Yet, rarely are the youth voices considered when developing programmes that might enhance youth participation, in particular, in rural areas. Thus, this case study was conducted to …
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“Tweet of the town:” synthesizing local and social media discourse on book bans
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms