Tag: Youth

The Sacrificed Generation Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar


Free Download Lesley A. Sharp, "The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar"
English | 2002 | pages: 397 | ISBN: 0520229509, 0520229517 | PDF | 3,0 mb
Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of youth, for its key actors are not adults but schoolchildren. Lesley Sharp refutes dominant assumptions that African children are the helpless victims of postcolonial crises, incapable of organized, sustained collective thought or action.

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Handbook for Working with Children and Youth Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts


Free Download Michael Ungar, "Handbook for Working with Children and Youth: Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts"
English | ISBN: 1412904056 | 2005 | 552 pages | PDF | 43 MB
The Handbook For Working With Children & Youth: Pathways To Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts examines lives lived well despite adversity. Calling upon some of the most progressive thinkers in the field, it presents a groundbreaking collection of original writing on the theories, methods of study, and interventions to promote resilience. Unlike other works that have left largely unquestioned their own culture-bound interpretations of the ways children and youth survive and thrive, this volume explores the multiple paths children follow to health and well-being in diverse national and international settings. It demonstrates the connection between social and political health resources and addresses the more immediate concerns of how those who care for children create the physical, emotional, and spiritual environments in which resilience is nurtured.

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Youth Entrepreneur’s Nexus – YEN Manual


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English | August 18, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DDJXHJ4B | 254 pages | EPUB | 1.51 Mb
The Youth Entrepreneurship Nexus is an innovative initiative designed to foster entrepreneurial spirit and skills among young people. This program aims to equip the next generation with the tools, knowledge, and mindset necessary to launch successful ventures and contribute positively to their communities and economies, and the world at large. By focusing on youth, the program seeks to tap into the creative potential and adaptability of young individuals, encouraging them to innovate and drive future growth.

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Children of the Camp The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya


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English | ISBN: 1785336312 | 2017 | 246 pages | PDF | 1393 KB
Chronic violence has characterized Somalia for over two decades, forcing nearly two million people to flee. A significant number have settled in camps in neighboring countries, where children were born and raised. Based on in-depth fieldwork, this book explores the experience of Somalis who grew up in Kakuma refugee camp, in Kenya, and are now young adults. This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.

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Digital Passages Migrant Youth 2.0 Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections


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English | ISBN: 908964640X | 2015 | 324 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young migrants understand, negotiate, and perform identity? That’s the question taken up by Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0, a ground-breaking analysis of the ways that youth culture online interacts with issues of diaspora, gender, and belonging. Drawing on surveys, in-depth interviews, and ethnography, Koen Leurs builds an interdisciplinary portrait of online youth culture and the spaces it opens up for migrant youth to negotiate power relations and to promote intercultural understanding.

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Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity


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English | ISBN: 331973461X | 2018 | 303 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional sociolinguistics, this detailed and highly reflexive account provides rich descriptions and discussions of the linguistic processes at work in a previously underexplored research environment. In doing so, it reveals fresh insights into the changes taking place in urban British English, and into the difficulties of undertaking ethnographic, sociolinguistic research in a challenging context using a combination of methods and approaches. This interdisciplinary work will appeal to students and scholars from across the fields of sociolinguistics, ethnography, and education; as well as providing a valuable resource for teachers and trainees.

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