scholarly journals Vital Conjunctures in Compound Crises: Conceptualising Young People’s Education Trajectories in Protracted Displacement in Jordan and Lebanon

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Zoë Jordan ◽  
Cathrine Brun
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Lived Time

This paper emerges out of a study with 293 young people (Syrians, Palestinians and nationals) living in contexts of compound crises and protracted displacement in Jordan and Lebanon. In the paper, we discuss how young people’s education trajectories can be conceptualised, operationalised and studied. We synthesise different approaches to understanding and analysing such trajectories into a framework that captures the intricate and multi-directional ways that young people navigate towards uncertain futures. The framework on multi-directional trajectories takes its starting point from an understanding of Victoria Browne’s ‘lived time’, captured through how different temporalities come together in one person’s story. After presenting our framework and the context in the first part of the paper, the second part applies the framework to analyse the ‘vital conjuncture’ of leaving education. By analysing leaving education as lived time, we create nuanced insights into how this vital conjuncture can be understood to shape young peoples’ trajectories. In conclusion, we discuss the value of understanding trajectories as lived time by illuminating how young people experience and navigate their education trajectories.

YOUTH EXPECTATIONS OF SMART CITY LIVING: AN IMPORTANCE- PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF YOUNG RESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF CITY GOVERNMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Jason Cohen ◽  
Judy Backhouse ◽  
Omar Ally
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Government ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
City Management ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City

Young people are important to cities, bringing skills and energy and contributing to economic activity. New technologies have led to the idea of a smart city as a framework for city management. Smart cities are developed from the top-down through government programmes, but also from the bottom-up by residents as technologies facilitate participation in developing new forms of city services. Young people are uniquely positioned to contribute to bottom-up smart city projects. Few diagnostic tools exist to guide city authorities on how to prioritise city service provision. A starting point is to understand how the youth value city services. This study surveys young people in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, and conducts an importance-performance analysis to identify which city services are well regarded and where the city should focus efforts and resources. The results show that Smart city initiatives that would most increase the satisfaction of youths in Braamfontein  include wireless connectivity, tools to track public transport  and  information  on city events. These  results  identify  city services that are valued by young people, highlighting services that young people could participate in providing. The importance-performance analysis can assist the city to direct effort and scarce resources effectively.

scholarly journals New morbidity of the young

Stanovnistvo ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 53-76
Author(s):  
Biljana Stankovic
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Risky Behavior ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Psychosocial Risks ◽  
Inadequate Knowledge ◽  
Preventive Activity ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Unwanted Pregnancies

In the present phase of epidemiological transition, the most frequent causes of youth morbidity are disorders in reproductive health, mental disorders and injuries which are not life threatening. This, so-called new youth morbidity, is most often caused by their risky behavior, which in the field of sexuality often leads to unplanned pregnancies and abortions, as well as sexually transmitted infections. Misuse of tobacco, alcohol and narcotics, which is most commonly started in adolescence, has an unfavorable short-term and long-term influence on the psycho-physical health of the young. All research, in the world and in our country, indicate gradual yet constant growth of sexual activity of the youth and the age decrease of its starting point, especially when girls are in question. Due to insufficient maturity and inadequate knowledge and consciousness on the necessity of protecting reproductive health, sexual behavior of young people can often be characterized as insufficiently responsible and not supplemented with the usage of adequate protective measures. The result is frequently abortion, which terminates 90% of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies in this age. This creates health and psychosocial risks, as well as giving birth in adolescence which is contrary to the modern health concepts that giving birth should not be performed too early, while the young are still developing. A significant increase in the frequency of sexually transmitted diseases is also present, to which the youth are especially susceptible due to the specific development period in which they are in. A serious medical and sociopathological problem of contemporary society represents the greater and greater misuse of psychoactive substances among the young people, with a tendency of decreasing the average age they are consumed for the first time, as well as the use of drugs and alcohol. With the increase of the anti-smoking campaign and restrictive measures in highly developed countries smoking among young people is decreasing, while it is increasing in Eastern Europe and developing countries. As the health disorders of young people mentioned above, are conditioned, above all, by their risky behavior and insufficient relation towards health, the degree to which they are widespread can be influenced by prevention. Educational and health institutes represent the carriers of preventive activity, which understands health education and aid to young people in overcoming life's skills, along with the necessity to direct support to the family as well, which maintains a significant place in the life of young people and has a important influence on their behavior to risk exposure. A significant influence is also legal and provision regulations, the role of mass media, as well as the activities of political, nongovernmental, religious and other organizations which determine the environment in which young people live.

scholarly journals Exploring the impact of social inequality and poverty on the mental health and wellbeing and attainment of children and young people in Scotland

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Gaynor Mowat
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact

The poverty-related attainment gap is an internationally recognised problem. There is growing recognition that it cannot either be understood or addressed without taking cognisance of children’s mental health and wellbeing. The focus of this conceptual article is to examine the impact of social inequality and poverty on the mental health and wellbeing and attainment of children and young people in Scotland through the lens of resilience. While not a ‘state of the art’ literature review, a systematic approach was adopted in the selection of the literature and in the identification of themes to emerge from it. A range of risk and protective factors at the individual, social, societal and political levels emerged as impacting on the mental health and wellbeing and attainment of children living in poverty, and three important mediating variables are the negative impact of social stratification and adverse childhood experiences and the positive impact of a supportive adult. Schools alone cannot solve the problem. The findings revealed that there is a need to build a strong infrastructure around families and schools and to examine how economic, social, health and educational policy interact with each other as a starting point in addressing the problem, supported by inter-disciplinary research.

Class, Lifestyle and Substance Use among Adolescents: A Bourdieusian Perspective

Young ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-163
Author(s):  
Jan Skrobanek ◽  
Verena Kuglstatter
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Young People ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
Capital Endowment ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Lifestyle Practices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Specific Capital

Against the backdrop of the continuing controversy regarding the interlinkage between social class, lifestyle and substance use of young people, the article reports the findings of an effort to assess the impact of adolescents’ cultural and economic capital and lifestyle practices on substance use. Drawing on Bourdieu’s work on class, lifestyle and practice, young people’s substance use can be seen as the product of class-specific capital endowment and related highbrow or lowbrow lifestyles. However, research seeking to explain adolescent substance use so far has eschewed a stringent empirical attempt to examine the impact of capital and lifestyle in relation to the use of different substances. Taking this desideratum as a starting point, our research indicates that although effects of cultural and economic capital are present, the type of lifestyle is more important for understanding and explaining substance use by young people.

DiG-DAG: Didactic Game for Divulgation of Understandable Geophysics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliana D'Addezio ◽  
Valerio Lombardo ◽  
Stefania Conte ◽  
Anna De Santis
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Computer Game ◽  
Great Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Educational Computer ◽  
Gaming Environment ◽  
Educational Computer Game

<p>Geophysics is the application of the laws and techniques of physics to disclose knowledge about the Earth’s dynamic processes and subsurface structure. It explores phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis to improve our understanding of the Earth’s physical processes. Effective mitigation of risks from catastrophic geophysics hazards requires knowledge and understanding of natural processes. Scientific divulgation deals with the communication of knowledge previously produced in scientific contexts to a non-expert massive audience.  One of the difficulties science divulgators need to overcome is to explain specific concepts, even complex, from a given discipline in a language simple and understandable, maintaining scientific correctness, and enhance skills, knowledge and competences of their interlocutors.</p><p>Considering that, nowadays, digital technologies play a large role in young people’s lives and games are directly connected to the life of adolescents, we realized an educational videogame to teach geophysics and Earth sciences to low and high-school students; an educational computer game, serious game, where electronic medium with all the characteristic of a gaming environment convey formative outcomes. The starting point is that technologies are systems of open possibilities that can be effectively integrated with innovative methods of education necessary to promote more effective, efficient, attractive and durable learning. In fact, the ardour and enthusiasm that digital games evoke in teenagers has brought many researchers, school leaders and teachers to the question “how video games” can be used to engage young people and support their learning.</p><p>A first stage of the project of Virtual Reality, "Journey inside the volcano", were presented at several scientific divulgative events, such as the ESA Living Planet Symposium, The National Geographic Festival delle Scienze, the September 29th INGV Open Day, involving more that a thousand users and receiving appreciation from the public. We present the serious game and the relate appreciation analysis based on guestbook comments compiled at the end of the experience. The comments reveal a great level of appreciation, involvements and emotions, and margins of improvement. The results foster us to improve the project developing other geophysical topics.</p>

Controlling the Flow

Young ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy White
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Youth Group ◽  
Urban Music ◽  
Gang Activity ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
Disciplinary Process

As a key genre within the urban music economy, grime music has a national and global presence. In the YouTube era, young people film music videos and broadcast them online. Legislation and policies ostensibly created as a means to maintain public safety combine to create methods to control the behaviour of young people. The production and circulation of urban music videos, therefore, become a contested activity. The racial mechanics of this gaze mean that for urban black youth, group endeavours are often criminalized as ‘gang activity’. Drawing on a 2014 Twitter profile as its starting point, this article examines the application of public safety legislation and policies in an East London borough. It reflects on how a ‘disciplinary process’ allows for local authorities, the metropolitan police and the judiciary to pin down and organize the movements of urban music practitioners in specific and particular ways.

scholarly journals Producing Online Youth Fiction in a Nordic Public Service Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mads Møller Andersen ◽  
Vilde Schanke Sundet
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Linear Flow ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Online Streaming

This article investigates the conditions for making online youth fiction in a public service context at a time when young people increasingly are abandoning both legacy mass media and linear flow television to consume and share content online. The article’s starting point is the production of online youth fiction in two Nordic public service institutions, the Norwegian NRK and the Danish DR, and it discusses how digitisation and new competitors present both challenges and opportunities for institutions such as these. Furthermore, the article discusses the organisation of online youth fiction in both institutions and investigates how organisational strategies and production cultures come into play in each of these broadcasters’ early signature youth series: the widely popular online teen drama SKAM (NRK, 2015-2017) and the far less known youth series Anton 90 (DR, 2015). Our findings show that it was the pressure imposed by digitisation and new competitors that led these institutions to take new risks with their youth fiction production, changing their production patterns to make short-form drama series tailored to online streaming, and ultimately treating online youth fiction as a distinctly different task than “regular” fiction.

scholarly journals COMUNICAÇÃO, SEMIÓTICA E PRODUÇÃO DE SENTIDOS A PARTIR DAS IMAGENS E TEXTOS DE JOVENS NO CENTRO DE ATENDIMENTO SOCIOEDUCATIVO DE PALMAS – TO

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Geraldo Da Silva Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Service Center ◽  
Communication Education ◽  
Image Communication ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Education And Law

O texto reflete sobre as imagens e textos que expressam as dinâmicas dos signos em circulação e produção de sentidos de jovens infratores internados no Centro de Atendimento Socioeducativo (Case) de Palmas - TO. A realização do estudo é parte de pesquisa mais abrangente sobre os diálogos entre os signos presentes nas paredes, corredores, banheiros, celas e espaços educativos formais existentes nas organizações que trabalham com jovens infratores e unidades do sistema prisional de adultos. O trabalho foi realizado no período de 2014-16, a partir de visitas técnicas no Case, reconhecimento dos espaços de circulação das imagens e textos, tomadas fotográficas e análise a partir da contribuição de estudos semióticos e comunicacionais. Busca-se com o texto contribuir para que mais estudiosos da comunicação, educação e direito possam ampliar o entendimento sobre esses espaços cujas paredes falam entre si. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Imagem; comunicação; semiótica; produção de sentidos;  juventude.                              ABSTRACTThe text dialogues with images and scriptures that on the images and texts that expose the dynamics of the signs and the circulation and production of senses by young people fulfilling educational measures for violation of law in the Social and Educacion Service Center (Case), Palmas-TO. The present study is a part of an investigation that focusing the dialogue between the present signs on the walls, hallways, bathrooms cells and formal educational spaces in existing organizations working with young people and units of the adults prison system. The activitiy was developed in 2014 to present date, taking as starting point technical visits in the Case, recognition of circulation spaces of images and scriptures, snapshots and analysis from the contribution of semiotics and communication studies. It seeks with the text contribute to communication, education and law researchers  expand the understanding of those spaces whose walls talks to each other . KEYWORDS: Image; communication; semiotics; sense; youth.  RESUMENEl presente texto dialoga con las imágenes y escritos que estan exponen la dinámica de los signos y la circulación y la producción de sentidos hecha los jóvenes que cumplen medidas  correlacionales en el Centro de Servicios Sociales y Educación (Case), Palmas-TO. El presente estudio forma parte de una investigación sobre los diálogos de los signos en los muros , pasillos, baños células y los espacios educativos formales en las organizaciones existentes para los jóvenes y las unidades del sistema de prision de personas adultas. La actividad fué desarrollada en 2014 hasta la presente fecha, teniendo como punto de partida visitas técnicas en el Case, el reconocimiento de los espacios de circulación de imágenes y escrituras , las tomas de instantáneas fotográficas  y el análisis bajo la contribución de la semiótica y los estudios de comunicación . Se busca con el texto contribuyer para que los estudiosos de la comunicación , educación y derecho amplíen la comprensión de dichos espacios cuyos muros dialogan  entre sí. PALABRAS CLAVE: imagen; comunicación; semiótica; producción de sentidos; junventud. 

scholarly journals Dialoger om verdier i grunnskolens formålsparagraf – med minnematerialet fra 22. juli som læremiddel

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Ingebjørg Stubø ◽  
Synnøve Markeng
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Norwegian Education ◽  
Human Worth

In the aftermath of the shooting and killing of young people on Utøya island and the bombing of government buildings on July 22nd 2011, children and adolescents put down texts and drawings on spontaneous memorials in the Oslo area1..Love and togetherness, life and human worth are often the values these utterances focus on. These are values closely related to central values in the objects clause («formåls-paragrafen») of the Norwegian Education Act, such as respect for human worth, compassion, diversity, equality and solidarity. This article highlights how children’s memorial texts can be a good starting point for conversation when the theme of the teaching is preamble values. The article deals with two forms of dialogue, philosophical conversations and teacher-led dialogues. The article’s main theoretical perspective is taken from Laila Aase’s presentation of the literary conversation in school, supplemented by perspectives that underlie the philosophical conversations and teacher-led dialogues.   Nøkkelord: Verdier, læringsverdier, 22. juli 2011, dialog, filosofisk samtale

scholarly journals Aproximación a mecanismos digitales en amazonía ecuatoriana partiendo de muestreo en la Universidad Estatal Amazónica

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 56-73
Author(s):  
William Ojeda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Starting Point

It reflects on new mechanisms of consumption and access to information used by young people, taking as a starting point the result of the study conducted among undergraduate students, second semester of 2018 at the Amazonian State University, Ecuador, which shows a clear shift from conventional media, through new digital instruments on the rise, a situation that poses new mechanisms, languages and information consumption habits. The objective is to identify young people's interest in certain information and the mechanisms through which they access it. The scope of the study is limited because it is restricted to the Amazon region, and specifically to the group of students who entered the period and institution indicated above. The methodological approach is two-dimensional, since a documentary work is developed in order to evaluate the different theoretical approaches related to founding reflections and the most recent contributions in the field of communication within the framework of the globalization process. An experimental phase is also carried out by means of a sample survey. Among the results of the analysis, note is taken of the redimensioning of interpersonal relations promoted by the digital era of this time, when new procedures that force the resemantization and re-signification of concepts and messages hit the scene; with a redimensioning of the public space of encounter in social interrelations, where the transitory emerges as an essential characteristic of a new public square of socialization, but now virtual, as a public sphere of passage that gradually becomes an ordinary stage. It is concluded that there is a majority inclination among young people starting university studies in Ecuador, specifically in the Amazon region, to inform themselves about events they consider relevant through the Internet and digital platforms, to the detriment of conventional information media that have been gradually displaced from attention. KEYWORDS: communication, digital networks, public square, conventional media.

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