Adolescent psychology in today's world : global perspectives on risk, relationships, and development
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Adolescent psychology in today's world : global perspectives on risk, relationships, and development
Praeger, c2018
- : set
- v. 1
- v. 2
- v. 3
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This groundbreaking three-volume set spotlights how conditions around the world are affecting the healthy development of adolescents in their respective environments, on all six continents.
Continually unstable or perpetually poor economic conditions, globalization, and rapid technological change are just three of the forces affecting a group 1.2 billion strong today, a demographic poised to become our world leaders and catalysts in the not-too-distant future: the world's adolescents. Led by two editors who have been dedicated to studying adolescent development worldwide for decades, this novel collection of works from contributors in more than 40 countries emphasizes how possibilities for healthy mental and physical development are affected by the difficulties youths face in their countries and how these challenges have shaped, and are shaping, contemporary teenage life today.
The set comprehensively addresses issues for adolescents across the globe, such as the day-to-day challenges of poverty, inadequate education, violence or war, disease, reproductive matters, globalization and technological challenges, and more, while also providing a strengths-based focus in the volumes, showing how and why some teenagers in each country have surmounted the challenges and forged stronger characters to better their worlds. These stories document more than personal victories, and their experiences matter to far more than the adolescents themselves. In its State of the World's Children 2011 report, UNICEF noted that the world community needs to turn its attention to adolescents in need, explaining that focusing on this large and potentially powerful group makes economic sense as well as being a necessary step in working towards achieving human justice. By addressing the risks, challenges, and strengths of teenagers as a group in countries worldwide, this work serves to break the cycle of poverty, violence, discrimination, and death for adolescents.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Volume 3 Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
Chapter 1 Introduction to Volume 3, Part 1: African Youth Development: Claiming the Past for the Future in Neoliberal Times
Andrew Babson
Chapter 2 The Influence of Community on Youth Transferable Skills in Livelihood Development: A Case Study from Rural Malawi and Uganda
Nihkit D'Sa, Selah Agaba, and Promise Mchenga
Chapter 3 Cultural and Social Factors Influencing Youth Development in Nigeria
Nneka Ibekwe, Anthony Alagbile, and Emmanuel Ibekwe
Chapter 4 Community Youth Mapping: Unlocking the Possibilities for Youth in Egypt
Eric Kilbride, Marwa Mohamed Abdel Wahab Mohsen, and Raul Ratcliffe
Chapter 5 Youth Cultural Involvement as a Resource for Self-Development: What We Can Learn from South Africa's "House Nation"
Andrew Babson
Chapter 6 Introduction to Volume 3, Part 2: Living with Contradiction: Youth Development in Contemporary Asia and the Middle East
Laura Murray and Mengjiao Guo
Chapter 7 Going Against Peril: Neoliberal Threats and School Reform in Japan
Eisuke Saito and Naomi Takasawa
Chapter 8 South Korean Youth: Rapid Change, Conflict, and Opportunities in Development
Lydia HaRim Ahn and Insil Chang
Chapter 9 The Positive Development of Chinese Youth: Possibilities, Challenges, and Suggestions
Fei Jiang and Han Ru
Chapter 10 The Demographic Dividend: Enhancing Youth Skills, Knowledge, Capital, and Networks toward Sustainable Possibility Development in India
B. Venkatesh Kumar and Sharon M. Ravitch
Chapter 11 Risk, Resilience, and Possibility Development Among Taiwanese Adolescents
Jian-Ming Hou and Chia-Po Cheng
Chapter 12 The Influence of Buddhism and Respect Patterns on Youth Development in Thailand
Chonlada Jarukitisakul
Chapter 13 The Possibility for Development Among Young People in Vietnam
Thao Thi Thanh Dang and Thi Diem Hang Khong
Chapter 14 Risk, Resilience, and Youth Development in Contemporary Cambodia
Peter Tan Keo and Seng-Dao Keo
Chapter 15 The Development of Israeli Jewish Youth: Challenges and Opportunities in a Context of Intractable Conflict
Shai Fuxman, Steven Brion-Meisels (Posthumous), and Gretchen Brion-Meisels
Chapter 16 Positive Youth Development in Iran: Living within Contradictions
Golkoo Hosseini
Chapter 17 Understanding the Plight of Pakistan's Education System and Its Impact on Youth Development
Sahar Akhtar, Maryam Suheyl, and Zahbia Sarfiraz
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
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