Onions and Apples: Problems with Comparative European Youth Research

Introduction: Better knowledge and skills of basic life support can save millions of lives each year in Europe. Aim: The aim of this study was to measure the knowledge about basic life support in European students. Method: From 13 European countries 1527 volunteer participated in the survey. The questionnaire consisted of socio-demographic questions and knowledge regarding basic life support. The maximum possible score was 18. Results: Those participants who had basic life support training earned 11.91 points, while those who had not participated in lifesaving education had 9.6 points (p<0.001). Participants from former socialist Eastern European countries reached 10.13 points, while Western Europeans had average 10.85 points (p<0.001). The best results were detected among the Swedish students, and the worst among the Belgians. Conclusions: Based on the results, there are significant differences in the knowledge about basic life support between students from different European countries. Western European youth, and those who were trained had better performance. Orv. Hetil., 2014, 155(21), 833–837.

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European Youth is the Union’s the Most Valuable Resource

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1850888 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Sebastian Chirimbu ◽

Ruxandra Eleonora Vasilescu ◽

Adina Barbu-Chirimbu

Keyword(s):

Valuable Resource ◽

European Youth

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European Youth Work Policy and Young People’s Experience of Open Access Youth Work

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279421000143 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

JON ORD ◽

MARC CARLETTI ◽

DANIELE MORCIANO ◽

LASSE SIURALA ◽

CHRISTOPHE DANSAC ◽

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Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Young People ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

Youth Work ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Policy Goals ◽

The Uk ◽

The Impact ◽

European Youth

Abstract This article examines young people’s experiences of open access youth work in settings in the UK, Finland, Estonia, Italy and France. It analyses 844 individual narratives from young people, which communicate the impact of youthwork on their lives. These accounts are then analysed in the light of the European youth work policy goals. It concludes that it is encouraging that what young people identify as the positive impact of youth work are broadly consistent with many of these goals. There are however some disparities which require attention. These include the importance young people place on the social context of youth work, such as friendship, which is largely absent in EU youth work policy; as well as the importance placed on experiential learning. The paper also highlights a tension between ‘top down’ policy formulation and the ‘youth centric’ practices of youth work. It concludes with a reminder to policy makers that for youth work to remain successful the spaces and places for young people must remain meaningful to them ‘on their terms’.

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Tiffany Jones: Improving Services for Transgender and Gender Variant Youth: Research, Policy and Practice for Health and Social Care Professionals

Journal of Youth and Adolescence ◽

10.1007/s10964-021-01448-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Marina S. Whitney

Keyword(s):

Social Care ◽

Research Policy ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Gender Variant ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Youth Research ◽

And Gender

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Youth Studies, Housing Transitions and the ‘Missing Middle’: Time for a Rethink?

Sociological Research Online ◽

10.5153/sro.3107 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 118-129 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Steven Roberts

Keyword(s):

Young Men ◽

Social Resources ◽

Youth Studies ◽

Transitions To Adulthood ◽

Lack Of Fit ◽

Youth Research ◽

Communal Living ◽

Missing Middle ◽

Determining Factor

A recent but growing trend in studies of young people's lives has been to highlight that there is a ‘missing middle’ in the youth studies research agenda. It has been argued that much youth research focuses on either successful or very troubled transitions to adulthood, with the lives of those who might simply be ‘getting by’ representing an empirical absence. Building on previous work that has addressed how such a missing middle can add to our understanding of educational experience and attainment, labour market engagement and participation, and issues of identity, this paper pays attention to the housing transitions, careers and aspirations of a group of ‘ordinary’ and apparently unproblematic working class young men. Because they do not represent groups that have been of especial interest in youth studies to date, their experiences problematize the on-going utility of dominant conceptual frameworks used to explain housing transitions. In addition to their ‘lack of fit’ with ideal type typologies, the young men also reveal the shifting nature of attitudes towards communal living ‘which is traditionally associated with middle class students’ in combination with the continuing role of social resources as a determining factor in their housing transition.

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