Education and Youth Agency Qualitative Case Studies in Global Contexts /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: DeJaeghere, Joan G. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Josić, Jasmina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), McCleary, Kate S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development,
• Θέματα: Psychology.; International education.; Comparative education.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Developmental psychology.; Developmental Psychology.; International and Comparative Education.; Family.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Youth Agency
• Part 1. Youth Agency and Historical, Politics, and Community Conditions
• Chapter 2. "You are Building on Something": Exploring Agency and Belonging Among African American Youth Adults
• Chapter 3. Community Context and Relations Conditioning U.S. Youth's Citizen Agency
• Chapter 4. Confronting "The Conditions" of Senegalese Higher Education: Reframing Representation and Activism
• Part 2. Youth Agency and the Intersectionality of Gender, Religion, and Class
• Chapter 5. Agency as Negotiation: Social Norms, Girls' Schooling, and Marriage in Grujarat
• Chapter 6. Enactments of Youth Agency to Resist, Transgress, and Undo Traditional Gender Norms in Honduras
• Chapter 7. Exploring Boys' Agency Towards Higher Education: The Case of Urban Jamaica
• Chapter 8. The Last Great Hope for Transforming the Lives of Girls: The Rhetorics of Girls' Education in Upper Egypt
• Chapter 9. Malala Yousafzai as an Empowered Victim: The Media Narratives of Girls' Education, Islam, and Modernity
• Chapter 10. Peers, Sexual Relationships, and Agency in Tanzania
• Part 3. Youth Agency and Socioeconomic Contexts
• Chapter 11. Considering Children's Economic Agency: Work and School Decisions in Kanchipuram, India
• Chapter 12. Social Capital, Agency, and Creating Micro-Enterprises: A Case of Entrepreneurship Education for Tanzanian Youth
• Chapter 13. Vocational Training and Agency Among Kenyan Youth
• Chapter 14. Youth Agency and Education: Reflections and Future Directions. .