Essays about: "today s youth"
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1. Working with Mentors in Violence Prevention: The experiences and understandings of professionals
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbeteAbstract : The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and analyse the understanding the professionals’, who work with youth at one of the schools where Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) was implemented, have of their work. Particular emphasis was made on the professionals’ own positioning in relation to the gender theoretical starting points and structural perspective of the MVP-programme. READ MORE
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2. Torima, Sutabaru? A Quantitative Study on Current Japanese Youth Language
University essay from Lunds universitet/JapanskaAbstract : In this thesis, several current and former trends of Japanese youth language are examined through the perspective of age-appropriate speakers, following previous scholarly arguments that youth language research is fraught with judgements made by non-members of the relevant age group. By the means of a quantitative online questionnaire, the study seeks to find examples of expressions that Japanese individuals from their late teens to their early twenties consider to be youth language, items they feel are particularly contemporary or obsolete, and the types of youth language expressions they make frequent use of themselves. READ MORE
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3. Multilingual Upbringing : Sociolinguistic factors affecting English language acquisition
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : English has become more of an inevitability than a possibility within our globalised world. Many of today’s youth experience a multilingual upbringing as they are exposed to English in addition to other languages through their potentially multinational and multilingual family and other factors. READ MORE
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4. EDUCATION SERVING THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS?! An interview study of the educational foundations, challenges and opportunities in Auroville, India
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk professionAbstract : Auroville, in India was created to become a living laboratory for a new way of living and being on Earth. In this context, education in Auroville has a specific purpose. READ MORE
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5. PLANNING TIME: Structuring of the Everyday among Young Adults in Non-Traditional Jobs
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : Unstructured time and “wasted” time is often shunned and unwanted in today’s society focused on productive and progressive use of time. In this essay, I examine how planning of everyday activities gives structure and purpose to the day with the help of tools such as personal calendars and to-do lists. READ MORE