Education and youth agency : qualitative case studies in global contexts /: qualitative case studies in global contexts. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Joan G. DeJaeghere, Jasmina Josic, Kate McCleary.
• Editors: DeJaeghere, Joan G; Josic, Jasmina; McCleary, Kate
• Contents: Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Youth Agency.- Part 1. Youth Agency and Historical, Politics, and Community Conditions.- Chapter 2. "You are Building on Something": Exploring Agency and Belonging Among African American Youth Adults.- Chapter 3. Community Context and Relations Conditioning U.S. Youth's Citizen Agency.- Chapter 4. Confronting "The Conditions" of Senegalese Higher Education: Reframing Representation and Activism.- Part 2. Youth Agency and the Intersectionality of Gender, Religion, and Class.- Chapter 5. Agency as Negotiation: Social Norms, Girls' Schooling, and Marriage in Grujarat.- Chapter 6. Enactments of Youth Agency to Resist, Transgress, and Undo Traditional Gender Norms in Honduras.- Chapter 7. Exploring Boys' Agency Towards Higher Education: The Case of Urban Jamaica.- Chapter 8. The Last Great Hope for Transforming the Lives of Girls: The Rhetorics of Girls' Education in Upper Egypt.- Chapter 9. Malala Yousafzai as an Empowered Victim: The Media Narratives of Girls' Education, Islam, and Modernity.- Chapter 10. Peers, Sexual Relationships, and Agency in Tanzania.-Part 3. Youth Agency and Socioeconomic Contexts.- Chapter 11. Considering Children's Economic Agency: Work and School Decisions in Kanchipuram, India.- Chapter 12. Social Capital, Agency, and Creating Micro-Enterprises: A Case of Entrepreneurship Education for Tanzanian Youth.- Chapter 13. Vocational Training and Agency Among Kenyan Youth.- Chapter 14. Youth Agency and Education: Reflections and Future Directions.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 305.235; Psychology; Youth -- Cross-cultural studies; Education -- Cross-cultural studies; Agent (Philosophy); Developmental psychology; Education -- Comparative; Social Science -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family; Education; Sociology: family & relationships; Psychology -- Developmental -- General; Child & developmental psychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319333441
• Related ISBNs: 9783319333427
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