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Product Identifiers

PublisherMelbourne University Publishing

ISBN-100522858368

ISBN-139780522858365

eBay Product ID (ePID)238757602

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFor We Are Young and ... ? : Young People in a Time of Uncertainty

Publication Year2011

SubjectChildren's Studies, Developing & Emerging Countries, Development / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorRoger Holdsworth

Subject AreaSocial Science, Business & Economics

SeriesYouth Studies Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight11.7 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

SynopsisFor we are young and ...' offers a provocative perspective on Australia's young people against a global and local backdrop of uncertainty and change. It asserts the importance of a critically informed and positive approach to youth, moving beyond seeing young people through the lens of shortcomings and problems tobe solved. For we are young and ...' draws directly on the work of the Youth Research Centre at The University of Melbourne and its legacy of innovative and significant research on young Australians. Opening with the theoretical context of youth research, the book draws on contemporary examples to discuss new conceptual and research approaches; the ways in which young people participate in change and the challenges and possibilities that are presented by current conditions. For we are young and ...' identifies emerging issues and future directions for youth research, policy and professional practice., For we are young and ...? offers a provocative perspective on Australia's young people against a global and local backdrop of uncertainty and change. It asserts the importance of a critically informed and positive approach to youth, moving beyond seeing young people through the lens of shortcomings and problems tobe solved. For we are young and ...? draws directly on the work of the Youth Research Centre at The University of Melbourne and its legacy of innovative and significant research on young Australians. Opening with the theoretical context of youth research, the book draws on contemporary examples to discuss new conceptual and research approaches; the ways in which young people participate in change and the challenges and possibilities that are presented by current conditions. For we are young and ...? identifies emerging issues and future directions for youth research, policy and professional practice.