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Cultivating spatial citizenship through collaborative mapping: an empirical study on youth engagement in peripheral urban Ecuador

Cogent Education
This study shows the potential of collaborative mapping as a pedagogical tool for cultivating spatial citizenship competencies among young students from peripheral urban spaces in Ecuador. Building on theories of spatial citizenship, the study postulates
Ignacio W. Loor, Wegner A. Muentes
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Looking back on childhood experiences of homelessness: Stories of ongoing residential instability and resilience

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Families' experience of homelessness is typically examined from the perspective of parents during or shortly after a shelter stay. Parents complain about rules, surveillance, crowding, and challenges to parenting in both homeless shelters and in doubling up with other households (sharing the others' homes), and relief when they attain their ...
Marybeth Shinn, Emma J. Sacks, Kayla Fike   +2 more
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Electronic and Conventional Cigarette Use and Academic Achievement Among Predominantly Low-Income Black High School Students

Children
Background: Tobacco use remains a major public health concern among adolescents, particularly as electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use has increased in recent years.
Payam Sheikhattari, Rifath Ara Alam Barsha, Chidubem Egboluche, Shervin Assari   +3 more
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Strategies toward Greater Youth Participation in Jordan’s Urban Policymaking

Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, 2023
Seventy percent of the population in Jordan is young and urban. A plethora of research demonstrated that collaborative urban policymaking would positively impact youth’s physiological and physical welfare as well as the quality of urban planning ...
Zayed F. Zeadat
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The incidence of youth unemployment in urban Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2003
This study addresses some issues relating to the urban youth labour market in Ethiopia. Using data from the Ethiopian Urban Socio-Economic Survey, the study finds a staggeringly high level of youth unemployment in urban Ethiopia. This is particularly the
Haile, G.A.
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Firearm carrying practices and motivations: A mixed methods study among adults and youth

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this participatory action, mixed methods research study was to identify motivations related to firearm carrying from a qualitative perspective, and then to use quantitative research to characterize the patterns of motivations around carrying.
Krista R. Mehari, Colleen S. Walsh, L. Taylor Stevens, Jasmine N. Coleman, Alice Ellyson, Phillip N. Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multicomponent intervention for schoolchildren with asthma: Pilot cluster randomized controlled trial

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global
Background: Physical activity (PA) is an important factor in asthma management. However, studies report low PA in children with asthma living in underserved communities.
Marina Reznik, MD, MS, Florinda Islamovic, MD, Jill S. Halterman, MD, MPH, Cheng-Shiun Leu, PhD, Jiaqing Zhang, PhD, Philip O. Ozuah, MD, PhD   +5 more
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Bridging Theory and Practice in the Urban Science Classroom: A Framework for Hip-Hop Pedagogy in STEM

Critical Education, 2017
This paper explores the state of urban science education as it relates to achievement and engagement of urban youth in STEM and provides insight on improving the experiences of urban youth in the science classroom through the lens of an urban science ...
Edmund S Adjapong
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Does free public transit increase physical activity and independent mobility in children? Study protocol for comparing children’s activity between two Finnish towns with and without free public transit

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Children’s habitual physical activity, including active travel and catching public transit (walking and cycling to and from destinations), and independent mobility (mobility without an adult) have decreased. Public transit trips are physically
Arto J. Pesola, Pirjo Hakala, Päivi Berg, Samira Ramezani, Karen Villanueva, Sari Tuuva-Hongisto, Jussi Ronkainen, Tiina E. Laatikainen   +7 more
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Rural-urban Youth Migration and Informal Self-Employment in Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2014
Empirical studies in the migration literature indicate that migration is often welfare improving for the migrant. But it is also possible that youth migrants become more susceptible and less competitive in urban areas because of lower endowment in ...
Bezu, Sosina, Holden, Stein
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