Contemporary Youth Research: Local Expressions and Global Connections

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ISBN: 9780754641612 | 0754641619
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/28/2005

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A major new resource book for academics and students of youth studies, Contemporary Youth Research offers a rare comparative review of a field which is often focused on the local or national situation. Drawing together authors from across the world, this work combines assessments of the theory, methodology and practice of youth research, and the impact of globalization on this field of study.

List of Contributors

vii

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Overview of Youth Research Globally

Chapter 1 Conceptualizing and Theorizing Youth: Global Perspectives

(12)

Vappu Tyyskä

Chapter 2 Youth Research in Europe

(18)

Helena Helve, Carmen Leccardi and Siyka Kovacheva

Chapter 3 Youth Research in Africa

(2)

David Everatt

Chapter 4 Trends in Youth Studies in (English-Speaking) North America

(4)

James Côté

Chapter 5 The Socio-Cultural Construction of Youth in Latin America: Achievements and Failures

(10)

CarLes Feixa Pampols and Yanko González Cangas

Chapter 6 Contemporary Trends in Youth and Juvenile Studies in China

(2)

Jin Zhikun and Yang Xiong

Chapter 7 Youth Research in Australia and New Zealand

(12)

Johanna Wyn

Part II Current Trends in Youth Research

Topic Area 1: Education, Technology and Work

Chapter 8 Biographical Turning Points in Young People's Transitions to Work Across Europe

(14)

Manuela du Bois-Reymond and Barbara Stauber

Chapter 9 Texting as Style: Preliminary Observations on Cellular Phone Use Among Filipino College Students

(12)

Clarence M. Batan

Chapter 10 Risk Among Youth in Modern Russia: Problems and Trends

(14)

Julia A. Zubok

Chapter 11 An Attempt to Reverse the Failure of Rural Youth Development in South Africa

103

(18)

David Everatt, Sipho Shezi and Ross Jennings

Chapter 12 Cross-Cultural Understanding: Service-Learning in College Coursework

121

(14)

Gunilla Holm and Paul Farber

Topic Area 2: Youth Engagement

Chapter 13 Latina/o Youth Contest for Equity in the Public School System in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles: A Political and Theoretical Perspective

135

(12)

Fazila Bhimji

Chapter 14 Young People's Civic Engagement. The Need For New Perspectives

147

(12)

Henk Vinken

Chapter 15 Learning to Destroy the World: Western Schooling and the Natural Environment

159

(14)

Thomas Ray

Topic Area 3: Culture and Identity in a Culturally Diverse and Global World

Chapter 16 'Remaking Citizens': Perspectives from the Lived Temporalities of Four Singaporean Youths

173

(12)

Yen Yen Joyceln Woo

Chapter 17 Mobilizing a Lesbian Identity as a Means for Educational Achievement: Mizrachi Lesbians in Israel

185

(12)

Liora Gvion and Diana Luzzatto

Chapter 18 Cool Nostalgia: Indian American Youth Culture and the Politics of Authenticity

197

(12)

Sunaina Maira

Chapter 19 Teenage Pregnancy in Mexico: Why the Panic?

209

(10)

Noemi Ehrenfeld Lenkiewicz

Index

219

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