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Introducing the MA in European Youth Studies: A Visual Feast
A promotional video explaining the new and pioneering MA EYS, European Youth Studies Short Course. Commissioned by a consortium of 10 European Universities. Produced by Karol Cioma of K Productions and his former BBC colleagues Tony O’Shaughnessy and Penny Roberts of Tower Media. Filmed on a Sony Z7 and edited on FCP.
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Call for Papers: “Youth work, non-formal education and youth participation” (special issue of IJSE)
Aims and contents The development of youth work is a priority for the European Commission and the Council of Europe youth policy within a broader framework oriented towards the recognition and validation of non-formal education, the promotion of youth participation and the wider rethinking of education. In this context, the debate on the validation of…
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Edited Book in Spanish: #GeneraciónIndignada. Topías y Utopías del 15M
#GeneraciónIndignada. Topías y Utopías del 15M Carles Feixa y Jordi Nofre (eds.) La Generación Indignada tuvo en su día el sueño de ser como sus progenitores o como aquella generación anterior que gracias a un trabajo estable y a un salario debidamente garantizado participaron de la transformación de la masa proletaria en masa propietaria acaecida…
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Book Publication on Sri Lankan Youth
Globalisation, employment and education in Sri Lanka: opportunity and division Emerita Angela W. Little & Siri T. Hettige About the book Since the late 1970s, Sri Lanka has undergone a socio-economic transformation, from protectionism towards economic liberalisation and increasing integration into the world economy. Through a systematic comparison of these periods of economic change (1956–1977,…
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Springer Series on Life Course, edited by LIVES Board of Directors, Publishes a First Book
The first issue in the series “Life Course Research and Social Policies” is now available in print and electronically. A NCCR LIVES team will edit the next volume. The book Negotiating the Life Course: Stability and Change in the Life Pathways, edited by Australian researchers Ann Evans and Janeen Baxter, is the first issue of…
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Young People Making it Work (2012)
Young People Making it Work Hernan Cuervo and Johanna Wyn Young People Making it Work examines a generation’s lives in rural Australia over the past two decades. Against a backdrop of dramatic social, economic and environmental change, the book tells the story of how a generation of young people have strived to remain connected to…
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1989 – Young people and social change after the fall of the Berlin Wall (2012)
Author(s): Carmen Leccardi, Carles Feixa, Siyka Kovacheva, Herwig Reiter, Tatjana Sekulic (editors) ISBN: 978-92-871-7183-2 Format : 16 x 24 No. of pages : 207 Price : € 44 / US$ 88 Synopsis After the collapse of state socialism at the end of the 1980s, young people in Eastern Europe began to play a dramatically different…
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Bookshelf
• MachÑcek, L. (2004) Youth in Slovakia and European Identity, Bratislava. Download full text in .pdf format (1086 KB) • Walther, A., Stauber, B., Biggart, A., du Bois_Reymond, M., Furlong, A., Lãpez Blasco, A., Moerch, S., Pais, J.M. (eds.) (2002): MISLEADING TRAJECTORIES: Integration Policies for Young Adults in Europe? An EGRIS Publication. Read more about…
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Books on Contemporary Youth
Here are three recently published books on contemporary youth that you may find interesting. For more information, just click the links. Contemporary Youth Research: Local Expressions and Global Connections edited by Helena Helve and Gunilla Holm A major new resource book for academics and students of youth studies, this work offers a rare comparative review…