Growing up in the Kayamandi Township: I. The role of sport in helping young people overcome challenges within their community

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith A. Whitley ◽  
Laura A. Hayden ◽  
Daniel Gould
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Growing Up

scholarly journals Internet in Social Reality of Russian Youth: Potential Risks and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Rudenkin
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday Reality

The paper is devoted to an empirical analysis of the role of the Internet in the everyday reality of Russian youth. The author notes that the unusual speed of the Internet spread in the life of Russian society made the circumstances of growing up of modern young Russians very specific. In fact, they became the first generation of Russian “digital natives”. Growing up in the conditions of the rapid spread of the Internet in society, many of them are used to perceiving the Internet as a natural and inalienable attribute of everyday reality. The author uses materials of secondary data analysis and the data of his sociological research among Russian youth to determine the role of the Internet in the social reality of youth and to find out the possible risks and opportunities that it can create. The empirical basis of the study is a questionnaire survey conducted by the author in 2018 among the youth of the city of Ekaterinburg, Russia. The key conclusion of the article is that the Internet is deeply integrated into the social reality of modern Russian youth. The growing importance of the Internet in life is a source of a number of risks, which include the formation of Internet addiction, increasing the vulnerability of young people to destructive content and the formation of a communicative gap between representatives of different generations. The Internet can also be used to broadcast information to a youth audience, to organize cooperation among young people, to popularize good practices and for other purposes. Keywords: youth, Russian youth, Internet, “digital natives”, Russian society

Fake news. Distortions and Manipulations as a Threat to Democracy. The Role of the School

2020 ◽  
Vol XVI ◽  
pp. 161-174
Author(s):  
Jadwiga Szymaniak
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Press ◽  
Harmful Content ◽  
Reliable Knowledge

Young people are growing up to democracy. The trend of carelessness und untruth, sometimes also visible at school, is not conductive to this. That is why it is necessary to teach wise adoption, conscious participa-tion and verification of distortions. An active polemic with manipulation is needed, which requires reliable knowledge from teachers and creating space for student’s activity. Such forms of work as organizing meetings with witnesses of history, cooperation with the press and its systematic, critical learning, enabling various forms of self-education may be useful. The Polish constitution, the broadcasting act, as well as the convention on the rights of the child impose an obligation to protect adolescents against harmful content.

Teens and Territory in 'Post-Conflict' Belfast

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Insight Into

This book provides a timely and necessary response to the neglect of the perceptions and experiences of young people growing up in ‘post conflict’ societies using Belfast as a case study. Despite a great deal of research on the social, economic and political consequences of sectarianism in Northern Ireland, few studies have examined young people’s attitudes to and experiences of territory. We still know relatively little about how young people relate to concepts such as space, place and territory in divided societies. This book addresses this vacuum. By presenting a detailed rich ethnographic account of how teenagers living in segregated localities in Belfast access and use local and city centre space, the book contributes to knowledge about the role of young people in both sustaining conflict and overcoming divisions. Teenagers’ spatial practices provide insight into how the regenerated, rebranded, repacked, ‘post conflict’ city is experienced, perceived, negotiated and imagined by a group whose voices are often absent or regarded as peripheral. While the book presents a case study of Belfast, its appeal is not limited to those interested in Ireland. Rather, through this detailed case study, the book aims to address wider questions concerning the role of young people in politically contested societies. The book underlines the need to take on board young people’s ways of seeing and contributes to knowledge about appropriate ways to engage young people in research.

scholarly journals Children resisting deficit: What can children tell us about literate lives?

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aspa Baroutsis ◽  
Annette Woods
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
First Case ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Deficit Discourses

Research has demonstrated that teachers who know more about the literate lives of their students outside of the classroom are more able to set up positive connections between home and school. In this article, we theorise the notion of ‘deficit’ discourses in education. Using two cases as examples, we seek to disrupt deficit discourses about children in communities of high poverty. The first case describes children’s responses when asked to draw and talk about learning to write, and highlights children’s explication of the role of the family in literacy learning. The second case describes an outside school media space where children engaged over time with a variety of new media and digital texts. These examples make the point that listening to young people can provide surprising insights into children’s aspirations and their understandings of the affordances of learning literacy. Our findings challenge the assumptions that underpin deficit understandings of children and young people growing up in communities of high poverty, and suggest that listening to children and young people in schools may well support the goal of providing quality schooling for all students.

scholarly journals Networked generation growing up or maturing on social media

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-187
Author(s):  
V. A. Sushko ◽  
G. B. Pronchev
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Young People ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Social

The article analyzes the processes taking place in the youth environment in the context of digitalization of society. The role of social networks is discussed. Since its inception, network analysis has been formed as an interdisciplinary direction in which psychologists, sociologists, communication specialists, anthropologists, mathematicians and statisticians combine their efforts. The social network as a way of organizing social knowledge requires a special methodological approach, different from the traditional methods of analyzing sociological information. “Digital habits” significantly affect the behavior of young people, change the “traditional” way of life. The article is of interest to specialists dealing with problems of sociology of youth, sociology of global processes, methodology of sociological research.

scholarly journals Talking about sex and sexual behaviour of young people in Ireland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Nolan ◽  
◽  
Emer Smyth ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Sexual Behaviours ◽  
Using Data

Research from a joint ESRI/HSE Health and Wellbeing research programme analyses how young people receive information on sex and relationships. Using data from the Growing up in Ireland ’98 Cohort at 13 and 17 years of age, the research also examines the role of this information in shaping sexual behaviours among Irish adolescents. The research finds that four in ten 17 year-olds have not spoken to their parents about sex and relationships.

Significance and Role of Athletes in Ethical Education of Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-74
Author(s):  
Ivana Markov Čikić ◽  
Aleksandar Ivanovski
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Ethical Education ◽  
Open Issue ◽  
Clear Identification ◽  
Relationship Of

Summary One cannot write about the relationship of young people and current sports stars in modern society without having previously studied the processes of mediation and globalisation of sport, and the transformation of traditional social values. The goal of the science and practice engaged in sports and education of young people is a constant quest for preserving universal ethical values and reconciling them with the modern-day social processes. This paper will present the result of a survey conducted with adolescents in five different Serbian cities in order to find the answer to the question if sportspersons were their favourite television role-models. According to the results of our survey, 45% of adolescents do not have a favourite TV personality and do not know for sure who that could be. Novak Đoković, who would be the choice of adults for a role model of the young, with 63.2% according to the survey conducted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, scored 3.81% in our survey with adolescents who would chose Novak Đoković as their favourite TV personality. The necessity of raising media literacy of young people with the aim of clear identification of sports role models who are going to improve their quality of life still remains an open issue for further research on this course.

NURTURING OF CHILDREN THROUGH DRAMA AND THEATRE: THE CASE OF INTWASA KOBULAWAYO PERFORMANCES

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Vimbai Moreblessing Matiza
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

Dramatic and theatrical performances have a long history of being used as tools to enhance development in children and youth. In pre-colonial times there were some forms of drama and theatre used by different communities in the socialisation of children. It is in the same vein that this article, through the Intwasa koBulawayo performances, seeks to evaluate how drama and theatre are used to nurture children and youth into different developmental facets of their lives. The only difference which this article will take into cognisance is that the performances are done in a different environment, which is not the one used in the pre-colonial times. Although these performances were like this, the most important factor is the idea that children and youth are socialised through these performances. It is also against this backdrop that children and youth are growing up in a globalised environment, hence the performances should accommodate people from all walks of life and teach them relevant issues pertaining to life as they live it now. Thus the main task of the article is to spell out the role of drama and theatre in the nurturing of children and youth through socio economic and political development in Intwasa koBulawayo festivals.

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