Education And Youth Agency

Author : Joan G. DeJaeghere,Jasmina Josić,Kate S. McCleary
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319333441

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Education and Youth Agency by Joan G. DeJaeghere,Jasmina Josić,Kate S. McCleary Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive overview of studies on youth agency across various parts of the world. It explores diverse perspectives on education, citizenship and future livelihoods, modernity and tradition, gender equality, and social norms and transformations as they relate to how young people construct their agency. Drawing on case studies of young women and men from Africa, the Americas and South Asia, this book illustrates the different ways in which education affects youth’s beliefs, engagement, action, and identities in broader historical, social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Chapters argue for education as a potential force for equity and explore how both formal schooling and informal educational programs may challenge and inspire youth through individual and collective action to change the social conditions affecting their lives and their communities. The global nature of this book gives readers a deeper understanding of youth agency as a dynamic process in relation to changing economic, political, and social environments. Featured topics include: The role of community context and relationships in shaping U.S. youth’s citizen agency. Malala Yousafzai and media narratives of girls’ education within Islam and modernity. Social capital, sexual relationships, and agency for Tanzanian youth. Boys’ agency toward higher education in urban Jamaica. Children’s economic agency in Kanchipuram, India. Vocational training and agency among Kenyan youth. Education and Youth Agency is an essential resource for researchers, educators, practitioners, and undergraduate and graduate students across such related disciplines as developmental psychology, international and comparative education, family studies as well as public health, educational policy and politics, youth studies, and social policy.

Author : Caroline Sarojini Hart,Mario Biggeri,Bernhard Babic
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781472514868

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Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth by Caroline Sarojini Hart,Mario Biggeri,Bernhard Babic Pdf

Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth presents new critical engagement in conceptualising the roles of youth agency and participation in education, development and the pursuit of social justice. Theoretically, the book is framed within the paradigm of the capability approach, initially developed by Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, and further differentiated by others, including philosopher, Martha Nussbaum. The book unravels the complex relationships between the nature of youth agency and participation, in education, but also in wider political, economic and social arenas, and the potential of young people to expand their freedoms to lead lives they have reason to value. It is thus argued that ethical, sustainable development is contingent on the nature of youth agency and participation in schooling and further afield. Bringing together leading international experts researching children's capabilities, Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth offers a unique exploration of links between exciting new areas of development in theory, research and practical applications of Sen and Nussbaum's ideas. The book addresses a significant gap in the literature drawing on empirical data from the UK, the USA, Jordan, Palestine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Switzerland, New Zealand and beyond, with perspectives presented from both within and outside schools and other formal educational settings. Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth is of particular interest to academics, teaching professionals, undergraduate and postgraduate students of education studies, social policy, youth and development studies.

Author : Joan DeJaeghere,Erin Murphy-Graham
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9783030852146

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Life Skills Education for Youth by Joan DeJaeghere,Erin Murphy-Graham Pdf

This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or do not impact young women’s and men’s lives in various contexts. Specifically, it examines the nature and importance of life skills, and how they are taught. It looks at the synergies and differences between life skills educational programmes and the way in which they promote social and emotional learning, vocational/employment education, and health and sexuality education. Finally, it explores how life skills may be better incorporated into education and how such education can address structures and relations of power to help youth achieve desired future outcomes, and goals set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Life skills education has gained considerable attention by education policymakers, researchers and educators as being the sine qua non for later achievements in life. It is nearly ubiquitous in global and national education policies, including the SDGs, because life skills are regarded as essential for a diverse set of purposes: reducing poverty, achieving gender equality, promoting economic growth, addressing climate change, fostering peace and global citizenship, and creating sustainable and healthy communities. Yet, to achieve these broad goals, questions persist as to which life skills are important, who needs to learn them, how they can be taught, and how they are best measured. This book addresses these questions.

Author : Dana Fusco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136817618

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Advancing Youth Work by Dana Fusco Pdf

This path-breaking book brings together an international list of contributors to collectively articulate a vision for the field of youth work, sharing what they have learned from decades of experience in the training and education of youth workers. Carefully designed evaluation and research studies have legitimized the learning potential of youth programs and non-school organizations over the last twenty years, and recent attention has shifted towards the education, training, and on-going professional development of youth workers. Contributors define youth work across domains of practice and address the disciplines of knowledge upon which sound practice is based, reviewing examples of youth practitioner development both in and outside of academia. Raising critical questions and concerns about current trends, Advancing Youth Work aims to bring clarity to the field and future of youth work. Advancing Youth Work will help youth work practitioners develop a common language, articulate their field in one voice, and create a shared understanding of similarities and differences. This book is also an invaluable resource for higher educators, researchers, and students involved with youth work.

Author : Charlie Cooper,Sinéad Gormally,Gill Hughes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137393593

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Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice by Charlie Cooper,Sinéad Gormally,Gill Hughes Pdf

Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0861552539

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Youth Work and Study Support Framework by Anonim Pdf

Author : Liz Hoggarth,Bryan Merton,Mary Tyler
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857252234

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Managing Modern Youth Work by Liz Hoggarth,Bryan Merton,Mary Tyler Pdf

When people set out to qualify in youth work they do not anticipate that it's about managing themselves; aims, intentions and outcomes; programmes and projects; case work; educational experiences and environments; budgets; volunteers and staff; and young people's development. This book ensures that students will feel confident to manage purpose, projects and people to deliver good- quality educational and developmental youth work with and for young people. It also caters for those with youth work management experience by providing an opportunity to review and further develop management skills and understanding in the context of a volatile policy environment.

Author : Marti Taru,Ewa Krzaklewska
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287186591

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Youth worker education in Europe by Marti Taru,Ewa Krzaklewska Pdf

Youth work, coupled with effective government policies, is invaluable in ensuring that young people are given the opportunity to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need for civic engagement and social action. Youth work is experiencing a policy momentum at European level. Since the adoption of a resolution on the subject by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2017, youth work is back on the core agenda of the Council of Europe and the European Union youth strategies. This book looks at how youth work practitioners learn their trade, what formal and non-formal education offers exist and how education iscontextualised in the broader picture of youth work recognition. Starting with the premise that formal education entails a series of steps from which youth work practitioners would benefit, this books explores that picture through a mapping study and delves further into its findings through thematic contributions. The results of the research and debates with policy makers, researchers, practitioners, educators and other stakeholders identifies a field of growing opportunities across Europe. The situation of youth workers in different countries varies from advanced practice architectures for youth worker education to those in need of development. Youth worker education, however, is not only about the education and training offers, it is also about financial and organisational resources, legislation, support systems, competence frameworks, quality standards, ethical frameworks and guidance. This book aims to support youth work so that it becomes more visible and evolves into a recognised field of practice among other occupations and professions engaging with young people.

Author : Ruth Lister,Sue Middleton,Noel Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 0861552601

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Young People's Voices by Ruth Lister,Sue Middleton,Noel Smith Pdf

Author : Ingrid E. Castro,Jessica Clark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498597395

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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction by Ingrid E. Castro,Jessica Clark Pdf

This collection merges representations of children and youth in various science fiction texts with childhood studies theories and debates. Set in the past, present, and future, science fiction landscapes and technologies sometimes constrain, but often expand, agentic expression, movement, and collaboration.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0861552547

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Youth Work and Study Support by Anonim Pdf

Author : Magda Nico,Ana Caetano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000367744

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Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives by Magda Nico,Ana Caetano Pdf

Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives brings together different takes on the possible combinations of agency and structure in the life course, thus rejecting the notion that young individuals are the single masters of their lives, but also the view that their social destinies are completely out of their hands. ‘How did I get here?’ This is a question young people have always asked themselves and is often asked by youth researchers. There is no easy and single answer. The lives that are told, on one hand, and their interpretation, on the other, may have the underlying idea of 'own doing' or the idea of 'social determinism' or, more accurately and frequently, a combination of the two. This collection constitutes a comprehensive map on how to make sense of youth’s biographies and trajectories, it questions and reshapes the discussion on the role and responsibility of youth studies in the understanding of how people juggle opportunities and constraints, and contributes to escaping what Furlong and Cartmel identified as the "epistemological fallacy of late modernity", in which young people find themselves responsible for collective failures or inevitabilities. It can thus interest students, researchers and professors, youth workers and all of those who work for and with young people.

Author : Charlie Cooper,Sinéad Gormally,Gill Hughes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137393593

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Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice by Charlie Cooper,Sinéad Gormally,Gill Hughes Pdf

Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society.

Author : Graham Bright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350314221

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Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts by Graham Bright Pdf

Youth work is a means of promoting learning, equality and inclusion with young people. It is an incredibly rewarding profession; however, state regulation means that youth work students and practitioners must continuously wrestle with the challenges of contemporary practice in environments that are complex and changing. This book brings together a collection of voices to speak to these concerns. Drawing on the history of the profession, each chapter focuses on a different aspect of policy and practice. Chapters explore the impact of New Labour; the changes that came with the coalition government; youth work in the voluntary sector, and youth work in a digital world. Graham Bright concludes with a powerful reflection on what the future holds for the profession. Each chapter features 'Over to You' activity boxes which invite readers to engage collaboratively in developing and applying ideas, with case studies which link discussion to real life examples. This is an important book for students, practitioners and lecturers in the field of youth and community work and related practice with children and young people.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Federal aid to handicapped services
ISBN : UIUC:30112105067133

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Application for Grants Under Secondary Education and Transitional Services for Handicapped Youth by Anonim Pdf