Youth in Cities - A Cross-National Perspective

Klappentext This book presents comparative evidence and case-studies on poor urban youth, providing interventions that have proven successful. Zusammenfassung Using both comparative evidence and case studies! this volume illustrates the common needs of youth throughout the world! despite the highly varied socio-cultural circumstances in which they develop! and makes a case for the role of youth as creative social assets and positive forces for social change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Setting the Context: 1. Comparative perspectives of urban youth; Part II. Youth as a Force for Social Change: 2. Steering by the stars; 3. Children show the way; 4. Adolescents as collaborators; Part III. Urban Youth Experiences in Cross-cultural Perspective: 5. Have cities ceased to function as integration machines?; 6. From street children to all children; 7. Youth crime, community development; 8. Youth violence prevention in America; 9. Social learning and community participation; Part IV. Work, Life Skills and Well-being: 10. Work by the young; 11. Program for life skills; 12. Youth in cities: signs of hope and stress.

Product details

• Authors: Marta Wilson Tienda
• Assisted by: Michael Rutter (Editor), Marta Tienda (Editor), William Julius Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2002
• EAN: 9780521809085
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80908-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Jacobs Foundation Series on Ad
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology