Engaging Children And Youth In Africa

Author : Ntarangwi, Mwenda,Massart, Guy
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956762743

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Engaging Children and Youth in Africa by Ntarangwi, Mwenda,Massart, Guy Pdf

Representing research from east, central, west, and southern Africa, Engaging Children and Youth in Africa provides a well-balanced analysis of on-the-ground data with methodological and phenomenological issues that abound in much of research in Africa today. With an introduction that charts out some of the most critical approaches in African-centred research on children and youth, contributors to this volume give the reader a glimpse of the product of engaged research that places children and youth at the centre of analysis. The authors follow recent studies that have insisted on seeing African childhood and youth beyond constraining Western notions of vulnerability or innocence, to capture the ways in which recent advances in technology, the intensification of global processes, and continued weakening of the nation-state have not only contributed to new ways of being children and youth but how they have also provided a new lens through which to study social change.

Author : Mwenda Ntarangwi,Guy Massart
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956762279

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Engaging Children and Youth in Africa by Mwenda Ntarangwi,Guy Massart Pdf

Representing research from east, central, west, and southern Africa, Engaging Children and Youth in Africa provides a well-balanced analysis of on-the-ground data with methodological and phenomenological issues that abound in much of research in Africa today. With an introduction that charts out some of the most critical approaches in African-centred research on children and youth, contributors to this volume give the reader a glimpse of the product of engaged research that places children and youth at the centre of analysis. The authors follow recent studies that have insisted on seeing African childhood and youth beyond constraining Western notions of vulnerability or innocence, to capture the ways in which recent advances in technology, the intensification of global processes, and continued weakening of the nation-state have not only contributed to new ways of being children and youth but how they have also provided a new lens through which to study social change.

Author : Victoria Derr,Louise Chawla,Mara Mintzer
Publisher : New Village Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781613321027

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Placemaking with Children and Youth by Victoria Derr,Louise Chawla,Mara Mintzer Pdf

An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design From a history of children’s rights to case studies discussing international initiatives that aim to create child-friendly cities, Placemaking with Children and Youth offers comprehensive guidance in how to engage children and youth in the planning and design of local environments. It explains the importance of children’s active participation in their societies and presents ways to bring all generations together to plan cities with a high quality of life for people of all ages. Not only does it delineate best practices in establishing programs and partnerships, it also provides principles for working ethically with children, youth, and families, paying particular attention to the inclusion of marginalized populations. Drawing on case studies from around the world—in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States—Placemaking with Children and Youth showcases children’s global participation in community design and illustrates how a variety of methods can be combined in initiatives to achieve meaningful change. The book features more than 200 visuals and detailed, thoughtful guidelines for facilitating a multiplicity of participatory processes that include drawing, photography, interviews, surveys, discussion groups, role playing, mapping, murals, model making, city tours, and much more. Whether seeking information on individual methods and project planning, interpreting and analyzing results, or establishing and evaluating a sustained program, readers can find practical ideas and inspiration from six continents to connect learning to the realities of students’ lives and to create better cities for all ages.

Author : Yaw Ofosu-Kus
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869787377

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Childrens Agency and Development in African Societies by Yaw Ofosu-Kus Pdf

This book focuses on African childhood and youth within the context of development and socialization where children are expected to be moulded in the image of adults. In many African societies children are generally held as passive bearers of the demands of adults, regardless of the fact that they are often exposed to a multitude of challenges that originate from the capriciousness of those adults. However, buoyed by international conventions and national legislations that offer them greater protection, and the ubiquitous internet that exposes them to childhood and youth experiences elsewhere, many of them are increasingly becoming assertive in homes, schools, and communities as well as re-invigorating their survival and self-preservation instincts. It is in this regard that this book, through the various chapters, engages with their competencies, skills and creativity to respond to experiential challenges as independent migrants or ones under coercion working in city streets and markets or cocoa farms or juggling work and schooling in pursuit of some education. Confronted with their parents and siblings health predicaments and the inadequacies of state and familial care, or urgent negotiation of their sexualities, they demonstrate incredible resilience. Similarly, their perceptiveness is demonstrated in a unique appreciation of politics and its actors and a capacity to assume responsibilities beyond their chronological age. Thus while highlighting some of the challenges confronting African children, the book provides gripping evidence of how they resiliently negotiate those challenges.

Author : Osita Agbu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869783904

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Children and Youth in the Labour Process in Africa by Osita Agbu Pdf

It is increasingly clear that children and the youth today play a significant role in the labour process in Africa. But, to what extent is this role benign? And when and why does this role become exploitative rather than beneficial? This book on children and the youth in Africa sets out to address these questions. The book observes that in Africa today, children are under pressure to work, often engaged in the worst forms of child labour and therefore not living out their role as children. It argues that the social and economic environment of the African child is markedly different from what occurs elsewhere, and goes further to challenge all factors that have combined in stripping children of their childhood and turning them into instruments and commodities in the labour process. It also explains the sources, dynamics, magnitude and likely consequences of the exploitation of children and the youth in contemporary Africa. The book is an invaluable contribution to the discourse on children, while the case studies are aimed at creating more awareness about the development problems of children and the youth in Africa, with a view to evolving more effective national and global responses.

Author : De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781622735341

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New Perspectives on African Childhood by De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade Pdf

What does it mean to be a child in Africa? In the detached Western media, narratives of penury, wickedness and death have dominated portrayals of African childhood. The hegemonic lens of the West has failed to take into account the intricacies of not only what it means to be an African child in local and culturally specific contexts, but also African childhood in general. Challenging colonial discourses, this edited volume guides the reader through different comprehensions and perspectives of childhood in Africa. Using a blend of theory, empiricism and history, the contributors to this volume offer studies from a range of fields including African literature, Afro-centric psychology and sociology. Importantly, in its eclectic geographical coverage of Africa, this book unashamedly presents the good, the bad and the ugly of African childhood. The resilience, creativity, pains and triumphs of African childhood are skilfully woven together to present the myriad of lived experiences and aspirations of children from across Africa. As an important contribution to African childhood studies, this book has the potential to be used by policymakers to shape, sustain or change socio-cultural, economic and education systems that accommodate African childhood dynamics and experiences at different levels.

Author : Michael Bourdillon
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869785427

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Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spaces by Michael Bourdillon Pdf

This book deals with problems facing children and youth in African cities today. African populations have high growth rates and, consequently, relatively high proportions of young people. Population growth in rural areas has stretched resources leading to urban migration and a rapid growth of cities. Economies have not grown apace with the population; and in some countries, economies have even shrunk. The result is a severe lack of resources in cities to meet the needs of the growing populations, shown in high unemployment, inadequate housing, poor services, and often extreme poverty. All the essays in this book draw attention to such urban environments, in which children and youth have to live and survive. The title of this book speaks of negotiating livelihoods. The concept of ‘livelihood’ has been adopted to incorporate the social and physical environment together with people’s responses to it. It considers not only material, but also human and social resources, including local knowledge and understanding. It, thus, considers the material means for living in a broader context of social and cultural interpretation. It, therefore, does not deal only with material and economic existence, but also with leisure activities, entertainments and other social forms of life developed by young people in response to the dictates of the environment. The book contains country-specific case studies of the problems faced by youths in many African cities, how they develop means to solve them, and the various creative ways through which they improve their status, both economically and socially, in the different urban spaces. It recognizes the potentials of young people in taking control of their lives within the constraints imposed upon them by the society. This book is a valuable contribution to the field of child and youth development, and a useful tool for parents, teachers, academics, researchers as well as government and non-government development agencies.

Author : Alexander De Waal,Nicolas Argenti
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111765157

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Young Africa by Alexander De Waal,Nicolas Argenti Pdf

How did the Ghanaian state, after flirtation with structuralist theories and state intervention in the early 1960s, followed by persistent resistance to fiscal correction and a long economic slide in the 1970s and early 1980s, turn the economy around?

Author : Kathrin Horschelmann,Lorraine van Blerk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134184149

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Children, Youth and the City by Kathrin Horschelmann,Lorraine van Blerk Pdf

Contrasts experiences of growing up in the city.

Author : Ofosu-Kus, Yaw
Publisher : CODESRIA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869787186

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Children's Agency and Development in African Societies by Ofosu-Kus, Yaw Pdf

This book focuses on African childhood and youth within the context of development and socialization where children are expected to be moulded in the image of adults. In many African societies children are generally held as passive bearers of the demands of adults, regardless of the fact that they are often exposed to a multitude of challenges that originate from the capriciousness of those adults. However, buoyed by international conventions and national legislations that offer them greater protection, and the ubiquitous internet that exposes them to childhood and youth experiences elsewhere, many of them are increasingly becoming assertive in homes, schools, and communities as well as re-invigorating their survival and self-preservation instincts. It is in this regard that this book, through the various chapters, engages with their competencies, skills and creativity to respond to experiential challenges as independent migrants or ones under coercion working in city streets and markets or cocoa farms or juggling work and schooling in pursuit of some education. Confronted with their parents' and siblings' health predicaments and the inadequacies of state and familial care, or urgent negotiation of their sexualities, they demonstrate incredible resilience. Similarly, their perceptiveness is demonstrated in a unique appreciation of politics and its actors and a capacity to assume responsibilities beyond their chronological age. Thus while highlighting some of the challenges confronting African children, the book provides gripping evidence of how they resiliently negotiate those challenges.

Author : Osita Agbu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Child labor
ISBN : 9782869782518

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Children and Youth in the Labour Process in Africa by Osita Agbu Pdf

Describes the sources, dynamics and consequences of exploiting children and youth in selected French speaking African countries and Nigeria. Covers issues of child trafficking, their working on farms, in prostitution, as dancer, etc. Notes ILO's role and relevant Conventions relating to combating child labour.

Author : Ahmimed, Charaf
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231003349

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Youth and changing realities by Ahmimed, Charaf Pdf

Author : Mwenda Ntarangwi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Children
ISBN : OCLC:1290045667

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Children and Youth in Africa by Mwenda Ntarangwi Pdf

Author : Edward A. Janak,Denise F. Blum
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780739176009

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The Pedagogy of Pop by Edward A. Janak,Denise F. Blum Pdf

Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success discusses a variety of strategies and approaches for using social and mass media as tools through which teachers might improve schooling. While there is a vast body of literature in this field, editors Edward A. Janak and Denise Blum have created a text which differs in two substantive ways: scope and sequence. In terms of scope, this work is unique in two facets: first, it presents both theory and practice in one volume, bridging the two worlds; and second, it includes lessons from secondary and postsecondary classrooms, allowing teachers on all levels to learn from each other. In terms of sequence, The Pedagogy of Pop draws on lessons from both historical and contemporary practice. The introductory section of Janak and Blum's collection presents a pair of papers that use somewhat different approaches to examine the historical roots of contemporary critique. Part I presents a series of chapters designed to provide guidelines and theories through which educators on all levels can think about their practice, focusing more on the "why" of their approach than the "how." Part II presents a more "hands-on" approach by sharing a variety of specific strategies for incorporating pop culture in all its forms (technology, music, television, video games, etc.) in both secondary and postsecondary classrooms. The conclusion shows the praxis of teaching with popular culture, presenting a counterpoint to current thinking as well as a case study of the best of what can happen when popular culture is applied effectively.

Author : Karen Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781440852459

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Teen Lives around the World [2 volumes] by Karen Wells Pdf

This two-volume encyclopedia looks at the lives of teenagers around the world, examining topics from a typical school day to major issues that teens face today, including bullying, violence, sexuality, and social and financial pressures. Teenagers are living in a rapidly changing and increasingly interconnected yet unequal world. Whether they live in Australia or Zimbabwe, they have in common that they are between childhood and adulthood and increasingly aware of how inequality is affecting their lives and futures. This encyclopedia gives a different perspective based on the experiences of teens in 60 countries. Each entry gives the reader a brief sketch of a country to helps readers to understand how geography, history, economics, and politics shape teen life. The entries include a country overview and cover the following topics: Schooling and Education; Extracurricular Activities: Art, Music, and Sports; Family and Social Life; Religions and Cultural Rites of Passage; Rights and Legal Status; and Issues Today. Special sidebars, called Teen Voices, appear throughout the text, and include a description of a typical day in the life of a teen in various countries. Students will be able to gain a better understanding of what life is like around the world for their peers and will be able to easily make cross-cultural comparisons between different countries.