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Naslund, Rebecka; Gardelli, Asa – Disability & Society, 2013
This study introduces how technology and humans are part of relationships that influence agency among people with disabilities. It aims to focus attention on the use of, and access to, information and communication technology (ICT), and agency among youths and adults with intellectual disabilities. The study draws on empirical research conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Retardation, Mass Media Use, Information Technology
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Roberts, Steven – Journal of Youth Studies, 2010
This paper provides a reply to Woodman's (2009) recent argument that youth studies often incorrectly attribute the concept of "choice biographies" to the work of Ulrich Beck. Drawing heavily on Beck's own words, this paper contends that youth researchers might not be making this association unduly. Consideration is paid to some conceptual issues…
Descriptors: Biographies, Reader Response, Sociology, Social Science Research
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Temnitskii, A. L. – Russian Education and Society, 2010
The process of the formation and functioning of youth associations and organizations in today's Russia (whether on the basis of their formal registration or without it) can be looked at as a manifestation of personally and socially important active involvement. Participation in their activity is based on freedom of choice, value preferences, and…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Foreign Countries, Youth Agencies, Social Values
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Colley, Helen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: This paper seeks to discuss the impact of UK government austerity policies on learning in public service work, specifically youth support work. It also aims to argue that austerity policies intensify "ethics work", create emotional suffering, and obstruct workplace learning in a variety of ways. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Service, Youth Agencies, Youth Programs
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Zubok, Iu. A.; Chuprov, V. I. – Russian Education and Society, 2009
Russian and Soviet sociology have always paid considerable attention to the study of youth. Interest in the problems of youth first emerged in Russian sociology at the turn of the twentieth century. It was manifested with special clarity, however, in the 1920s through the 1980s, when the research came to include problems of the daily life and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Young Adults, Sociology, Youth Problems
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Corney, Tim; Broadbent, Robyn; Darmanin, Lisa – Youth Studies Australia, 2009
Recent attempts at professionalising the youth sector have focused on "codes of ethics" and left pay and conditions issues to community sector unions. The authors suggest that the history of nursing in Victoria provides a case example of the benefits of combining professional aspirations with industrial organisation.
Descriptors: Community Services, Youth Programs, Occupational Aspiration, Collective Bargaining