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Doing IT for Themselves: Management versus Autonomy in Youth E-Citizenship [PDF]

, 2008
Part of the Volume on Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth. This chapter explores tensions between managed and autonomous conceptions of youth e-citizenship as manifested in six UK-based projects.
Stephen Coleman
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Building a Learning Agenda Around Disconnected Youth [PDF]

, 2010
In December 2007, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave MDRC a grant to conduct reconnaissance on promising strategies to reengage disconnected young people and improve their long-term outcomes.
Dan Bloom, Rob Ivry, Saskia Levy Thompson   +2 more
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The discursive construction of childhood and youth in AIDS interventions in Lesotho's education sector: Beyond global-local dichotomies [PDF]

, 2010
This is the post-print version of this article. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Environment and Planning D,Society and Space 28(5) 791 – 810, 2010, available from the link below.
Ansell N, Bless BD, Bloem J, Boler T, Bowlby J, Boyden J, Boyden J, Burman E, Caputo V, Ennew J, Gill D, Griesel RD, Heywood C, James A, Jenks C, Kimane I, Kimane I, Kimaryo SS, Mayo M, Mead M, Ministry of Education and Training, Ministry of Employment and Labour, MOHSW, Montsi MR, NGO Coalition for the Rights of the Child, Nicola Ansell, Ntozi JPM, Peace Corps, Piaget J, Positive Action, Prout A, Prout A, Rose G, Rutter M, Scheper-Hughes N, Smith PK, UNAIDS, UNAIDS/UNICEF/USAID, United Nations, Vygotsky LS   +39 more
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Investigating barriers teachers face in the implementation of inclusive education in high schools in Gege branch, Swaziland

African Journal of Disability, 2018
Background: The kingdom of Swaziland is a signatory to policies on universal education that ensure high quality basic education for all. Education for All is a commitment to provide equal opportunities for all children and the youth as provided for in ...
Sifiso L. Zwane, Matome M. Malale
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Persistence in youth unemployment [PDF]

, 2012
This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries by using two alternative measures: the AR coefficient and the fractional differencing parameter, based on short- and long-memory ...
Caporale, GM, Gil-Alana, LA
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Barriers to youth political participation: insights from Malaysia’s lowered voting age policy (Undi18) in the 15th General Election

Cogent Social Sciences
In 2019, Malaysia implemented the Undi18 policy, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 and enabling younger candidates to contest in federal and state elections.
Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin, Nabighah Azrun
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Empowering Tomorrow’s Leaders through Youth Empowerment Initiatives and Employment Prospects at a Rural Municipality in South Africa [PDF]

Review of Socio-Economic Research and Development Studies
Persistent inequality and poverty remain deeply entrenched in South Africa, highlighting the shortcomings of the post-1994 developmental agenda. Socio-economic challenges such as unemployment, inadequate housing, corruption, limited access to basic ...
Tumeka P. Mabono, Victor S. Naidu, Tando Rulashe   +2 more
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SOME ASPECTS OF SOCIAL POLICY OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN GERMANY (1945 – 1949)

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013
The educational system and youth policy were important spheres in the social policy of the American military government. The paper focuses on the problems which the American occupation authorities faced when renewing the activity of educational ...
E. A. Zharonkina
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Short-term gains versus long-term strains: productivist policies and family resilience in China

The Journal of Chinese Sociology
This article studies the intricate dynamics of family resilience within the Chinese productivist regime over the course of seven decades, emphasizing the instrumental role of public policy in shaping this resilience.
Xiaohui Zhong, Bingqin Li, Qian Fang, Zihong Deng   +3 more
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Interorganizational Cooperation and Youth Policy: Case of Utena

Politologija, 2019
The implementation of youth policy is closely connected to interorganizational cooperation between the organizations that are active in the field of youth activities.
Gerda Vaičiūnaitė, Eugenijus Dunajevas   +1 more
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