This book examines the influence of mobile media technology on the lives of young people in East and North Asia, South East Asia and Australia. It discusses the impact information communication technologies have today on social identity, well-being, participation and exclusion. It explores current media practices and their innovative, transformative and disruptive uses at the local, the regional, the national, and the global level. In particular, it analyses mobile media not as a discrete object, but rather as part of a dynamic communication and information environment in which human-object relations are constantly reconfigured. It covers key theoretical and conceptual themes in youth mobile media research focusing on social, cultural and political aspects, including coverage of key themes such as regulation and technology, practices, pedagogies, aesthetics, social change, and representations of mobile youth. The book includes new accounts of recent research into the uses of mobile media by young people, and how these are situated in a broader socio-political context. Case studies include mobile panics in Australia (the notorious Kings of Wirrabee sexual assault case) and Japan (the scandals of high school girls as teenage prostitutes) in which mobile media use has had significant impact. This book offers an up-to-date examination of the influence of information communication technologies on young people's lives in the region.

Dieser Band widmet sich dem nach wie vor hochaktuellen Querschnittsthema Sex and Gender mit dem Ziel, die diesbezuglichen theoretischen Stroemungen, wissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen und empirischen Ergebnisse aus einer interdisziplinaren Perspektive zu bundeln. Das bereichsubergreifende Konstrukt Geschlecht wird hier insofern von anerkannten Kolleginnen und Kollegen ganz verschiedener Fachdisziplinen beleuchtet. Die behandelten Thematiken lassen sich hierbei drei grossen Teilbereichen zuordnen, wodurch auch die hohe Relevanz fur die verschiedenen Lebensphasen und gesellschaftlichen Kontexte evident wird: Entwicklung im Lebenslauf, Erziehung und Bildung, gesellschaftliche Strukturen und Integrationsprozesse.

Das in dem Buch vorgestellte Wissen uber die Beziehung der Menschen zur Umwelt behandelt die Einflusse und Wirkungen der Umwelt - Themen im Grenzbereich mehrerer Wissenschaften. Eine zentrale Frage ist die nach den Belastungsgrenzen der Menschen. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, einen Einblick in die Thematik an der Schnittstelle verschiedener Wissenschaften zu geben. Methodisch wird dies durch die Vielfalt der Inhalte und deren Verbindungen in der Stresstheorie vermittelt. Die Inhalte reichen von Beitragen der Geographie, Biologie, Medizin, Meteorologie und Psychologie bis zu komplexen Themen, z.B. Umwelt und Gesundheit, Mensch und Raum. Themen sind auch die Objektbeziehungen und Umwelteinflusse auf die Entwicklung. Einwirkungen der Natur werden besonders durch die Wirkungen von Klima/Wetter, Energie (z.B. Strahlen) und chemischen Stoffen vermittelt. Schall/Larm, Dichte/Enge sowie psychisch-koerperliche Umwelt-Syndrome verweisen auf psychische Stressoren. Praktische Aspekte zeigen sich in den Bereichen Wohnen, Stadt und Ortsidentitat, in Lern- und Arbeitsumwelten, in Rehabilitationseinrichtungen. Die Ergebnisse der Darstellung belegen die Umweltabhangigkeit der Menschen.

Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development investigates to what extent young people have access to fair opportunities, the factors influencing their aspirations, and how able they are to pursue these aspirations and to carry out their life plans. The book positions itself in the intersection between capabilities, youth and gender, in recognition of the fact that without gender equality, capabilities cannot be universal and development strategies are likely to fail to achieve their full objectives. Within the framework of the human development and capabilities approach, Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development focuses on examples in the areas of education, political spaces, and social practices that confront inequality and injustice head on, by seeking to advance young people's capabilities and their agency to make valuable life plans. The book focuses how youth policies and issues can be approached globally from a capabilities-friendly perspective; arguing for the promotion of freedoms and opportunities both in educational and political spheres, with the aim of developing a more just world. With a range of studies from multiple and diverse national contexts, including Russia, Spain, South Africa, Tanzania, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Colombia, India and Argentina, this important multidisciplinary collection will be of interest to researchers within youth studies, gender studies and development studies, as well as to policy makers and NGOs.

America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as "four fundamentalisms" market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of society. We see the consequences most plainly in the decaying education system: schools are increasingly designed to churn out drone-like future employees, imbued with authoritarian values, inured to violence, and destined to serve the market. And those are the lucky ones. Young people who don't conform to cultural and economic discipline are left to navigate the neoliberal landscape on their own; if they are black or brown, they are likely to become ensnared by a harsh penal system. Giroux sets his sights on the war on youth and takes it apart, examining how a lack of access to quality education, unemployment, the repression of dissent, a culture of violence, and the discipline of the market work together to shape the dismal experiences of so many young people. He urges critical educators to unite with students and workers in rebellion to form a new pedagogy, and to build a new, democratic society from the ground up. Here is a book you won't soon forget, and a call that grows more urgent by the day.

How interwar Poland and its Jewish youth were instrumental in shaping the ideology of right-wing Zionism By the late 1930s, as many as fifty thousand Polish Jews belonged to Betar, a youth movement known for its support of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism. Poland was not only home to Jabotinsky's largest following. The country also served as an inspiration and incubator for the development of right-wing Zionist ideas. Jabotinsky's Children draws on a wealth of rare archival material to uncover how the young people in Betar were instrumental in shaping right-wing Zionist attitudes about the roles that authoritarianism and military force could play in the quest to build and maintain a Jewish state. Recovering the voices of ordinary Betar members through their letters, diaries, and autobiographies, Jabotinsky's Children paints a vivid portrait of young Polish Jews and their turbulent lives on the eve of the Holocaust. Rather than define Jabotinsky as a firebrand fascist or steadfast democrat, the book instead reveals how he deliberately delivered multiple and contradictory messages to his young followers, leaving it to them to interpret him as they saw fit. Tracing Betar's surprising relationship with interwar Poland's authoritarian government, Jabotinsky's Children overturns popular misconceptions about Polish-Jewish relations between the two world wars and captures the fervent efforts of Poland's Jewish youth to determine, on their own terms, who they were, where they belonged, and what their future held in store. Shedding critical light on a vital yet neglected chapter in the history of Zionism, Jabotinsky's Children provides invaluable perspective on the origins of right-wing Zionist beliefs and their enduring allure in Israel today.

Um die Problematik Rechenschwache besser verstehen zu koennen, ist es notwendig, die grundlegenden Strukturen und Prozesse zu analysieren, die die verschiedenen mathematischen Leistungen beeinflussen. Dabei stellt das Arbeitsgedachtnis die Basisstruktur fur die Aneignung von Wissen dar. Ein Blick auf den aktuellen Forschungsstand spiegelt deutliche Zusammenhange zwischen mathematischen Fertigkeiten und Arbeitsgedachtnisleistungen wider. Es liegen allerdings wenige Studien vor, die das vorschulische Alter untersuchen. Die Abhandlung versucht, diese Lucke zu schliessen. Anhand von 249 Kindern (4-6 Jahre) werden ein Arbeitsgedachtnis- und ein Rechentest entwickelt. Weiterhin wird der Einfluss der Arbeitsgedachtniskomponenten nach Baddeley auf die verschiedenen mathematischen Fertigkeitsbereiche uberpruft. Im Ergebnis wird ein Einfluss der einzelnen Komponenten des Arbeitsgedachtnisses auf die mathematischen Leistungen nachgewiesen, wobei dieser wiederum den Entwicklungsstand der mathematischen Fertigkeiten widerspiegelt. Dabei unterstutzt die zentralexekutive Verarbeitungskapazitat vor allem neu erworbene mathematische Leistungen. Hingegen werden automatisierte mathematische Prozesse durch die Subsysteme, hier hauptsachlich durch die phonologische Schleife und durch ressourcensparende zentralexekutive Kapazitaten pradiktiert.

International Perspectives on Youth Conflict and Development brings together in one volume essays discussing the social, political, and economic contexts of youth conflict across fourteen countries on seven continents. Distinguished contributors from around the world draw on research and interventions to describe young people's participation in armed conflict, fighting, and social exclusion from the time they enter the public sphere to adulthood, as defined in their local environments.
Case studies include children involved in armed conflict in Mozambique, Angola, the Philippines, and Nigeria; young people exposed to post-war tensions in Bosnia, Croatia, and South Africa, youth in the streets in Brazil and Colombia; Arab and Jewish youth in the ongoing crisis in Israel; children socialized to hate, mistrust, or exclude those of other ethnic, economic, or social identities in the United States, Germany, and Korea; and young people experiencing the dramatic political and economic transition in China. Rather than focusing on character flaws and socio-cognitive deficits or other problems of individual youth, their families, or cultures, the volume examines youth conflict as a social practice embedded in local, national, and international processes.
The volume aims to shift the foundation of youth conflict study from the more typical focus on maturation, behavior, and personality to a characterization of youth as participants in society. It also expands the analysis of youth development to include societal problems such as political instability, unequal access to material resources, racism, and social injustice. Offering new insights about the interdependent spheres of conflictinvolving young people, this groundbreaking, international compilation describes processes of a violent world rather than of violent youth.

Girls are more than just sugar and spice. We ve all figured that out. What we haven t figured out completely is how they re wired, why they do the things they do, how the world around them affects their choices and opinions, and what that means for youth ministry---until now. In Teenage Girls, you ll find advice from counselors and veteran youth workers, along with helpful suggestions on how to minister to teenage girls. Each chapter includes discussion questions to help you and other youth workers process the issues your own students face and learn how you can help them and mentor them through this tumultuous time. In addition to the traditional issues people commonly associate with girls, such as eating disorders, self-image issues, and depression, author Ginny Olson will guide you through some of the new issues on the rise in girls lives. You ll understand more about issues related to: Family * Addiction * Emotional well-being * Mental health * Physical welfare * Sexuality * Spirituality * Relationships"

You loved Would You Rather...? and asked for more. In the tradition of the Quick Questions line, More Would You Rather...? offers another 465 provocative questions that will get your students laughing, debating, and thinking (and they'll learn a ton about each other in the process). Get ready for more fun as you ask: Would you rather... Live without your thumb or your big toe? Be famous or inspirational? Flip burgers or deliver pizza? It's amazing what can happen when you ask a silly question. Most of the time, a student's answer has a story behind it. Explore the answers as you learn about students' values, fears, and faith. And the book's convenient size makes it easy to stick in your pocket, your backpack, or your car's glove compartment. Whether you're a veteran youth worker or new to the field, a paid professional or a volunteer, you'll find More Would You Rather...? to be an indispensable part of your ministry resource library.

Reaching Out to Unchurched Teenagers Five facts about the unchurched: 1. They believe all religions have value. 2. They are spiritual, not religious. 3. They don't know what Christianity really is. 4. They don't know what they believe. 5. They are looking for something that works. If you want to make an impact on this generation, these are five basic rules you must understand. Author Jonathan McKee writes that by taking the time to learn students' unique situations you show you care about them as people, not as mission projects. Informative and full of real-life examples, Do They Run When They See You Coming? provides vital information you need to better understand students outside your youth group. Yet this book isn't a sociological or marketing survey; the tangible guidelines and methods inside help you get into the mind of unchurched students--so you can get to know their hearts. Because, as every youth worker knows, real ministry is always about getting to the heart.

Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community. Yet today the dispossessed are responding to the challenges of globalization and its methods of social control. The contributors to this volume examine the struggle for identity and interdependence of these youth, their clashes with law enforcement and criminal codes, their fight for social, political, and cultural capital, and their efforts to achieve recognition and empowerment. Essays adopt the vantage point of those whose struggle for social solidarity, self-respect, and survival in criminalized or marginalized spaces. In doing so, they contextualize and humanize the seemingly senseless actions of these youths, who make visible the class contradictions, social exclusion, and rituals of psychological humiliation that permeate their everyday lives.

From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them. This book chronicles the astounding self-transformation of one of the most feared gangs in the United States into a social movement acting on behalf of the dispossessed, renouncing violence and the underground economy, and requiring school attendance for membership.

What caused the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation of New York City to make this remarkable transformation? And why has it not happened to other gangs elsewhere? David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios were given unprecedented access to new and never-before-published material by and about the Latin Kings and Queens, including the group's handbook, letters written by members, poems, rap songs, and prayers. In addition, they interviewed more than one hundred gang members, including such leaders as King Tone and King Hector. Featuring numerous photographs by award-winning photojournalist Steve Hart, the book explains the symbolic significance for the gang of hand gestures, attire, rituals, and rites of passage. Based on their inside information, the authors craft a unique portrait of the lives of the gang members and a ground-breaking study of their evolution.

Desmond Morris combines his skills as a zoologist and manwatcher to take a close look at the most remarkable life-form ever to draw breath on this planet - the human baby. In a revealing portrait of life from the baby's point of view, Desmond Morris answers the questions that parents ask: How important is a mother to her baby? How well can babies hear, smell and taste? Why do babies cry? And what makes a baby smile? Do babies dream? Babywatching is a classic to rank alongside Desmond Morris's world bestsellers, The Naked Ape and Manwatching.

Unter einer interdisziplinaren Perspektive vereint der Band aktuelle Beitrage zur komplexen Thematik des Jugendalters, wobei die Autorinnen und Autoren hierbei die vielfaltigen Facetten dieser kritischen Lebensphase beleuchten. Die hier versammelten Abhandlungen bieten gleichermassen Gelegenheit, das eigene Wissen uber besagte Thematik zu erweitern und gleichzeitig (dies gilt insbesondere fur Multiplikatoren) die haufig vorhandenen Fehleinschatzungen und Irrtumer uber den Mythos Jugendalter auszuraumen. Neben grundlegenden empirischen Daten zu verschiedenen Fragen der Jugend heute gehoeren Medien, Mutproben, Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Jugendkriminalitat genauso zu den Inhalten des Bandes wie ein Trainingsprogramm fur psychisch belastete Jugendliche oder Fragen zur vieldiskutierten Hochbegabtenforschung.

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett has identified the period of emerging adulthood as distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Arnett's new paradigm has received a surge of scholarly attention due to his book that launched the field, Emerging Adulthood. On the 10th Anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking work, the second edition of Emerging Adulthood fully updates and expands Arnett's findings and includes brand new chapters on media use, social class issues, and the distinctive problems of this life stage. In spite of the challenges they face, Arnett explains that emerging adults are particularly skilled at maintaining contradictory emotions-they are confident while being wary, and optimistic in the face of large degrees of uncertainty. Merging stories from the lives of emerging adults themselves with decades of research, Arnett covers a wide range of topics, including love and sex, relationships with parents, experiences at college and work, and views of what it means to be an adult. He also refutes many of the negative stereotypes about emerging adults today, finding that they are not "lazy" but remarkably hard-working in most cases, and not "selfish" but rather concerned with making a contribution to improving the world. As the nature of American youth and the meaning of adulthood further evolve, Emerging Adulthood will continue to be essential reading for understanding the face of modern America.

Empirically based, the daily experiences of adolescent black females is explicated within an explanatory model of social context and developmental theory. The author argues that adolescence must be seen from strengths and health perspectives. Self-relatedness or intersubjectivity expressed in assertion, empathy and recognition is the core matrix of development where social contextual responses can be adaptive or maladaptive.

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and expressed not through social investment, but through consumption; the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. But the power to consume is distributed very unevenly, and even for the affluent it never fulfills the desire produced by the advertising industry. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.

An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design From a history of children's rights to case studies discussing international initiatives that aim to create child-friendly cities, Placemaking with Children and Youth offers comprehensive guidance in how to engage children and youth in the planning and design of local environments. It explains the importance of children's active participation in their societies and presents ways to bring all generations together to plan cities with a high quality of life for people of all ages. Not only does it delineate best practices in establishing programs and partnerships, it also provides principles for working ethically with children, youth, and families, paying particular attention to the inclusion of marginalized populations. Drawing on case studies from around the world-in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States-Placemaking with Children and Youth showcases children's global participation in community design and illustrates how a variety of methods can be combined in initiatives to achieve meaningful change. The book features more than 200 visuals and detailed, thoughtful guidelines for facilitating a multiplicity of participatory processes that include drawing, photography, interviews, surveys, discussion groups, role playing, mapping, murals, model making, city tours, and much more. Whether seeking information on individual methods and project planning, interpreting and analyzing results, or establishing and evaluating a sustained program, readers can find practical ideas and inspiration from six continents to connect learning to the realities of students' lives and to create better cities for all ages.

Young Women and the Body sets out to examine why the current generation of young women seem to be deeply unhappy with their own bodies. Dieting and disguising are commonplace, and inflicting serious harm by no means rare in fourteen to eighteen year olds. Despite prophesies to the contrary boys and adults are suffering far less. Drawing on feminist social constructionist perspectives the book seeks to examine this epidemic of body-hatred.

Behandlung und Erforschung spezifischer Sprachentwicklungsstoerungen (SSES) beschranken sich haufig auf die kindliche Sprachproduktion. Im vorliegenden Buch wird eindrucksvoll belegt, dass diese reduzierte Sichtweise dem gegenwartigen Stand der Forschung widerspricht. Spezifisch sprachentwicklungsgestoerte Kinder zeigen ebenso Auffalligkeiten im Sprachverstehen. Die zusammengetragenen empirischen Befunde bilden die Grundlage fur eine kritische Bewertung der meist wenig bekannten Testverfahren, die im deutschsprachigen Raum eine UEberprufung des kindlichen Sprachverstehens anstreben. Erganzende Vorschlage fur informelle Prufungsituationen ermoeglichen eine umfassende Diagnostik des kindlichen Sprachverstehens. Die exemplarische Durchfuhrung einer Sprachverstandnisuntersuchung veranschaulicht das konkrete Vorgehen und vereinfacht so die Umsetzung in der sprachtherapeutischen Praxis.

Vor Gericht stellt sich haufig die Frage, ob man Zeugenaussagen Glauben schenken kann. Bei der Begutachtung kindlicher Zeugen soll die merkmalsorientierte Inhaltsanalyse zur Beantwortung dieser Frage beitragen. Nach einer kritischen Wurdigung des Verfahrens und bisheriger empirischer UEberprufungen weist die Autorin auf moegliche Schwachstellen hin und entwickelt Verbesserungsvorschlage. In einer methodisch sehr aufwendigen Simulationsstudie wird u.a. untersucht, inwieweit das Verfahren zur Wahrheitsfindung beitragen kann, wenn Falschaussagende nicht frei phantasieren, sondern auf ahnliche Erfahrungen zuruckgreifen koennen. Die Befunde stutzen die Brauchbarkeit der Methodik, verweisen jedoch auf Grenzen ihrer Anwendbarkeit und legen eine Modifizierung des traditionellen Merkmalssystems nahe.

The growth of stepfamilies has been one of the most dramatic changes in British family life in recent decades. Britain today has the highest divorce rate in Europe, and by the early 1990s one in twelve children in Britain were already living in stepfamilies. Stepfamilies formed by remarriage after death were once a common experience, but in the first half of this century, as parental death became more unusual, they became unfamiliar rarities, and much of the common understanding of their dynamics was lost. The recent very rapid growth in divorce and remarriage has exposed millions of adults and children to life situations which are surprisingly little understood, either at the level of common wisdom, or through research. It is widely assumed that children referred to social and health professionals come above all from broken or reconstituted families, and until recently the interpretation of stepfamilies was dominated by analyses of clinical data. However, in large scale sample based studies it has been found that the experiences of children in stepfamilies and those growing up in 'intact' families are not as different as had previously been assumed. This study of fifty children bo