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41. Youth Moves

    Identities and Education in Global Perspective

    Edited by Nadine Dolby, Fazal Rizvi

    Series: Critical Youth Studies

    This fascinating collection of original essays seeks to address the possibilities and dangers of young people's transnational, commodified identities; how society and educational institutions might respond to these new identities; and the consequences for democratic practices and the public sphere....

    Published August 1st 2007 by Routledge
42. Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City

    By Bill Sanders

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City offers an interpretive account of juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city, an environment which is characterized by a long history of social deprivation and high rates of crime. A wide range of topics are explored, such as young people's...

    Published March 14th 2007 by Routledge
43. Youth Learning On Their Own Terms

    Creative Practices and Classroom Teaching

    By Leif Gustavson

    Series: Critical Youth Studies

    Youth Learning On Their Own Terms convincingly shows how developing a respect and understanding of the youth-initiated creative practices that occur outside schools can offer educators the opportunity to directly influence their teaching in schools by making classroom spaces personally meaningful...

    Published March 11th 2007 by Routledge
44. Global Youth?

    Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds

    Edited by Pam Nilan, Carles Feixa

    This innovative collection of studies by international youth researchers, critically addresses questions of ‘global’ youth, incorporating material from regions as diverse as Sydney, Tehran, Dakar and Manila, and advancing our knowledge about young people around the globe. Exploring specific local...

    Published April 19th 2006 by Routledge
45. Japan's Changing Generations

    Are Young People Creating a New Society?

    Edited by Gordon Mathews, Bruce White

    Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

    Japan's Changing Generations argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. Rather, it signifies something more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan, which may be quite different...

    Published March 26th 2005 by Routledge
46. Learning to Labor in New Times

    Edited by Nadine Dolby, Greg Dimitriadis

    Series: Critical Social Thought

    Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal Learning to Labor, one of the most frequently cited and assigned texts in the cultural studies and social foundations of education....

    Published April 11th 2004 by Routledge
47. Tough Fronts

    The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling

    By L. Janelle Dance

    Series: Critical Social Thought

    Tough Fronts takes the difficult issues in urban education head on by putting street-savvy students at the forefront of the discussion on how to best make successful changes for inner city schools. Individual chapters discuss scholarly depictions of black America, the social complexity of the...

    Published July 25th 2002 by Routledge
48. Feminism and Youth Culture

    Second Edition

    By Angela McRobbie

    Feminism and Youth Culture brings together eight separate essays written by Angela McRobbie (Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses, 1989) over a period of over ten years. Various themes include the effect of sexual inequality on the everyday lives of working-class girls; the blindness of male...

    Published August 15th 2000 by Routledge
49. Young and Homeless In Hollywood

    Mapping the Social Imaginary

    By Susan M. Ruddick

    Young and Homeless in Hollywood examines the social and spacial dynamics that contributed to the construction of a new social imaginary--"homeless youth"--in the United States during a period of accelerated modernization from the mid 1970s to the 1990s. Susan Ruddick draws from a range of...

    Published October 23rd 1995 by Routledge
50. Comparative Youth Culture

    The Sociology of Youth Cultures and Youth Subcultures in America, Britain and Canada

    By Mike Brake

    Published July 3rd 1985 by Routledge