Education and Youth Agency: Qualitative Case Studies in Global Contexts

Book Overview

Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Youth Agency.- Part 1. Youth Agency and Historical, Politics, and Community Conditions.- Chapter 2. "You are Building on Something" Exploring Agency and Belonging Among African American Youth Adults.- Chapter 3. Community Context and Relations Conditioning U.S. Youth's Citizen Agency.- Chapter 4. Confronting "The Conditions" of Senegalese Higher Education: Reframing Representation and Activism.- Part 2. Youth Agency and the Intersectionality of Gender, Religion, and Class.- Chapter 5. Agency as Negotiation: Social Norms, Girls' Schooling, and Marriage in Grujarat.- Chapter 6. Enactments of Youth Agency to Resist, Transgress, and Undo Traditional Gender Norms in Honduras.- Chapter 7. Exploring Boys' Agency Towards Higher Education: The Case of Urban Jamaica.- Chapter 8. The Last Great Hope for Transforming the Lives of Girls: The Rhetorics of Girls' Education in Upper Egypt.- Chapter 9. Malala Yousafzai as an Empowered Victim: The Media Narratives of Girls' Education, Islam, and Modernity.- Chapter 10. Peers, Sexual Relationships, and Agency in Tanzania.- Part 3. Youth Agency and Socioeconomic Contexts.- Chapter 11. Considering Children's Economic Agency: Work and School Decisions in Kanchipuram, India.- Chapter 12. Social Capital, Agency, and Creating Micro-Enterprises: A Case of Entrepreneurship Education for Tanzanian Youth.- Chapter 13. Vocational Training and Agency Among Kenyan Youth.- Chapter 14. Youth Agency and Education: Reflections and Future Directions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319814893
• ISBN13: 9783319814896
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"