Many liberal-minded Western democracies pride themselves on their commitments to egalitarianism, the fair treatment of immigrants, and the right to education. These environments would seem to provide ...a best-case scenario for the reception of immigrant youth. But that is not always the case. Coercive Concern explores how stereotypes of Muslim immigrants in Western liberal societies flow through public schools into everyday interactions, informing how Muslim youth are perceived by teachers and peers. Beyond simply identifying the presence of racialized speech in schools, this book uncovers how coercive assimilation is cloaked in benevolent narratives of care and concern. Coercive Concern provides an ethnographic critique of the "concern" that animates integration policy in Danish schools. Reva Jaffe-Walter focuses on the experiences of Muslim youth at a public school where over 40% of the student body is of immigrant descent, showing how schools operate as sites of governance. These efforts are led by political leaders who promote national fears of immigrant take-over, by teachers in schools, and by everyday citizens who are concerned about "problems" of immigration. Jaffe-Walter exposes the psychic and material costs immigrant youth endure when living in the shadow of social scrutiny, but she also charts a path forward by uncovering the resources these youth need to attain social mobility and success.
El Abandono Escolar (AE) es un proceso complejo, marcado por la desigualdad y exclusión, que sufren quienes no cumplen con ritmos y aprendizajes esperados. Es la Educación Para Jóvenes y Adultos ...(EPJA) quien acoge a estas personas. Sin embargo, su labor es invisibilizada, dificultando con ello la posibilidad de dar solución y respuesta a los múltiples desafíos que afrontan. Al respecto, encontramos dos países que han bajado sus cifras de AE, pero que no cuentan con el reconocimiento político y económico que les apoye. Son los y las docentes quienes podrían estar ejerciendo un rol clave para revertir el fenómeno. Por tanto, se plantea como objetivo comprender los significados de docentes EPJA en Chile y España sobre el AE, para dilucidar abordajes de acción. A través de una metodología cualitativa y estudio de caso múltiple, se analizaron 25 entrevistas correspondientes a docentes EPJA. Como resultado, existe una lectura sistémica de AE indicando que es el sistema educativo quien abandona, definiendo una identidad docente particular que sufre también el AE y que enfrenta el fenómeno a través del vínculo y acompañamiento. Elementos coherentes con una lógica de cuidado, literacidad crítica y justicia social que busca transformar y mejorar el sistema educativo.
In recent years, cyberspace has emerged as a prominent realm for young people, perceived by them as at least as important as real life. Cyberspace has become a field for the satisfaction of many ...psychological needs and has brought to life novel factors that influence development among children and youth. As a consequence, the educational sphere has been dramatically affected by the changes in the psychological functions, behaviors, and habits of students, who are becoming increasingly different from what educators were trained for only a few decades ago. Causal connections are yet to be examined experimentally, and longitudinal research takes more time. In the meantime, based on theoretical assumptions in psychology and educational sciences, some of the changes that affect the motivation and behavior of students in the classroom can be assumed. With this being said, the following article, using the perspective of self-determination theory, is aimed at understanding changes in students’ motivation, engagement, and behavior caused by cyber-psychological factors. How are the attention and habits of new generations different? How does this affect their involvement and motivation to learn in the classroom? How do students’ emotional experiences that potentially permeate classrooms reflect their increased immersion in the digital world? What are the most important lessons from cyberpsychology that educational professionals need to be aware of to maximize the benefits of their teaching to students? This article attempts to provide some answers and recommendations regarding these vital issues.
Approximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring, college preparation, political identity development, cultural ...and emotional support, and even a space to develop strategies and tools for organizing and activism. In Reclaiming Community, Bianca Baldridge tells the story of one such community-based program, Educational Excellence (EE), shining a light on both the invaluable role youth workers play in these spaces, and the precarious context in which such programs now exist. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, Baldridge persuasively argues that the story of EE is representative of a much larger and understudied phenomenon. With the spread of neoliberal ideology and its reliance on racism—marked by individualism, market competition, and privatization—these bastions of community support are losing the autonomy that has allowed them to embolden the minds of the youth they serve. Baldridge captures the stories of loss and resistance within this context of immense external political pressure, arguing powerfully for the damage caused when the same structural violence that Black youth experience in school, starts to occur in the places they go to escape it.
As an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. ...Along with its positive impact, New Urban Arts, under his leadership, became entangled in Providence's urban renewal efforts that harmed the very youth it served. As in many deindustrialized cities, Providence's leaders viewed arts, culture, and creativity as a means to drive property development and attract young, educated, and affluent white people, such as Denmead, to economically and culturally kick-start the city. In The Creative Underclass, Denmead critically examines how New Urban Arts and similar organizations can become enmeshed in circumstances where young people, including himself, become visible once the city can leverage their creativity to benefit economic revitalization and gentrification. He points to the creative cultural practices that young people of color from low-income communities use to resist their subjectification as members of an underclass, which, along with redistributive economic policies, can be deployed as an effective means with which to both oppose gentrification and better serve the youth who have become emblematic of urban creativity.
The aim of this study was to identify the role of youth education in encouraging them towards vocational training courses. The researcher followed the analytical descriptive approach. To that end, he ...developed a 20- item questionnaire, covering three main domains: the level of youth knowledge on the nature of vocational training, the extent to which the youth encourages their colleagues to enroll in vocational training and the level of youth awareness about the status of vocational training graduates, both socially and professionally. After presenting the questionnaire to a number of referees to test its validity, the researcher produced an electronic form, using the Google Drive program, and posted it for ten days on the websites of An-Najah Career and Alumni Unit. This was in addition to other websites of interest. 159 participants of both sexes completed the questionnaire: 90 females and 69 males. In the analysis of collected data, the researcher used the frequencies, percentages, and the Chi-Square test. After data Analysis, it was found that the Palestinian youth had a good knowledge about the meaning of vocational training and centers of its achievement. However, it did not encourage young people to join them at the public or private levels. It also showed that the enrollment of young people in vocational training courses did not diminish their social status, and that graduates of training courses were welcomed to marry members of their local communities. The results also indicated that the graduates of vocational training courses did not get jobs quickly despite the needs of the local communities. The respondents also indicated that the number of graduates of vocational training courses was insufficient and that it was difficult to communicate with them to meet their needs. In light of the results of this study, several recommendations have been suggested. First, there is a need for the design of a detailed electronic map of the sites of the vocational training centers in the governorates, and providing easy access to the database. Second, there is a need to establish a special association for graduates of vocational training courses. Third, there is a need to design tests to identify vocational tendency trends. Finally, the vocational training centers should have their own employment units. هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى تعرف دور ثقافة الشباب في توجيههم نحو الالتحاق بدورات التدريب المهني، وقد اتبع فيها الباحث المنهج الوصفي التحليلي لمناسبته لطبيعتها، إذ قام بتصميم استبانة تكونت من (20) سؤالا، غطت ثلاثة محاور رئيسية وهي: مستوى ثقافة الشباب بماهية التدريب المهني، ومدى تشجيع الشباب لأقرانهم للالتحاق بدورات التدريب المهني، ومستوى وعي الشباب بمكانة خريجي دورات التدريب المهني اجتماعيا ومهنيا. بعد عرض الاستبانة على عدد من المحكمين والتأكد من صدقها، قام الباحث بتصميم أنموذج إلكتروني خاص بها من خلال برنامج جوجل درايف الإلكتروني، ونشره لمدة عشرة أيام على مواقع وحدة التوظيف وشؤون الخريجين الإلكترونية الرسمية التابعة لجامعة النجاح الوطنية وغيرها من المواقع ذات الاهتمام، وقد استجاب (159) مبحوثاً مثلوا بذلك عينة الدراسة: (90) من فئة الإناث و (69) من فئة الذكور، واستخدم الباحث في تحليل البيانات: التكرارات والنسب المئوية واختبار (Chi-Square). لقد أظهرت النتائج أنه رغم أن الشباب يتمتع بثقافة كبيرة حول ماهية التدريب المهني ومراكز تحصيله، إلا أنه لا يشجع أقرانه على الالتحاق به، سواء أكان على المستوى العام أم على المستوى الخاص. وبينت النتائج كذلك أن التحاق الشباب بدورات التدريب المهني لا يقلل من مستواهم الاجتماعي، وأن خريجي الدورات التدريبية مرحب بهم للزواج من أفراد المجتمع. واشارت النتائج كذلك الى أن خريجي دورات التدريب المهني لا يحصلون على فرص عمل سريعا على الرغم من حاجة المجتمع إليهم، وأشار المبحوثون كذلك أن عدد خريجي دورات التدريب المهني غير كاف، وأن هناك صعوبة في التواصل معهم لتغطية حاجاتهم. وعلى ضوء تلك النتائج، فإن الدراسة توصي عدة توصيات، أهمها: تصميم خارطة إلكترونية تفصيلية بمواقع مراكز التدريب المهني في المحافظات يسهل الوصول إلى قاعدة البيانات فيها، وإنشاء رابطة خاصة بخريجي دورات التدريب المهني، وتصميم اختبارات تساعد على تحديد الميول المهني، وإنشاء دوائر توظيف في مراكز التدريب المهني.
This article aims to show the connection between the current crisis of adults and the changes that can be observed in the level of religiosity/spirituality of today’s youth. The Roman Catholic Synod ...on Young People held in Rome highlighted the need to understand young people and their religiosity. Understanding and interpreting the religiosity, ecclesiasticism, and spirituality of today’s youth is necessary if we wish to answer their religious and spiritual questions properly. Nonetheless, this paper considers only one specific aspect of youth religiosity, that is, the connection between the world of adults, especially the crisis that has affected many of them, and the development of young people—especially of their spirituality/religiosity. The first part provides a basic outline of young people’s religiosity and their relationship to the Roman Catholic Church based on the research. The second part reflects on the crisis of intergenerational transmission of faith, critically evaluating the existing channels used for this purpose. The third part is a critical evaluation of some aspects of the life of adults, especially in light of the crisis that has affected adulthood. The last part, containing results and conclusion, emphasizes the necessity and importance of the formation of adults in the Roman Catholic Church. The research is based on a literature review, analysis of data obtained from research—carried out especially in the Republic of Croatia—as well as directions that come to us from the Roman Catholic Church documents.
The OECD has become a notable predictor of the future needs of society and education. In youth education, the OECD spearheads global strategies, initiatives and recommendations about the curriculum ...and goals for education. By evoking the sense of 'crisis' in 'traditional education' the OECD functions as a central node of precision education governance, in which so-called best practices of precise, flexible and highly individualised and personalised youth education are disseminated throughout its member states. In the most recent OECD youth strategies and education policy initiatives, we show how the present youth education is governed through evoking various future(s) of youth education. By analysing these predictions and visions discursively, we argue that the future of youth education is approached from both utopian and dystopian predictions by the OECD, and this works as a premise for arranging present and future youth education in a highly targeted and individualised manner. We argue, that the future visions drawn up by the OECD are an example of precision education governance, where the future education is hyper-individualised, arranged by co-operation of public and private sector, and where the goals and contents of education follow global recommendations and 'best practices'.
The most important task of the modern Russian economy is the transition to new principles of work, digital platforms and technologies that can provide a comprehensive, complete and efficient ...relationship between market participants, the state and society. The purpose of this work is to develop a universal digital platform for working in the field of tourism on the example of the tourist project “The Lomonosov Way”. The work uses the methods of the digital economy, the original digital platform NBICS.NET, which makes it possible to systematize the solution of social, environmental and economic problems of the territories, the provision of tourism services in digital and analog, online and offline formats. NBICS.NET tools make it possible to apply AI, IoT and VR/AR/MR technologies, create a set of requirements and professional standards for the sustainable and high-quality provision of tourism services, and provide green technologies at all stages and processes of tourism projects. This ensures respect for people and the natural environment, the solution of social, environmental and economic problems of deep territories, stimulating the impact on the transformation of villages, towns and cities participating in the project and included in the digital platform. The presented project, associated with the great Russian thinker Mikhail Lomonosov, combines the history of science and education in Russia over the past 300 years in conjunction with the life of the peoples of the country, thereby realizing a conceptually new form of education for the younger generation. The platform can become a basis and a digital universal solution for creating similar tourism products in other regions and countries, uniting peoples with a humanitarian meaning.
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