Books in the Critical Youth Studies series

Offers a window on the lives and educational experiences of young city dwellers in a time of accelerating globalization and urban malaise. This book shows how groups of young people, marked by poverty and ethnic and religious diversity, have sought to navigate an urban terrain and in so doing, have come to see themselves in quite different ways.

Wired Citizenship examines the evolving patterns of youth learning and activism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change provides readers with new ways to see and engage youth resistance to educational injustices.

Provides an interdisciplinary examination of young women's multilayered lives. This collection demonstrates that young women have different ways of taking on politics and culture that may not be recognizable under more traditional paradigms, but deserve to be identified as socially engaged and potentially transformative nonetheless.

Written against the backdrop of important changes in social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics taking place in corporate culture's war on kids, this volume examines the intersection of youth culture and sport in an age of global uncertainty. It also includes chapters that range in scope from 'action' sport subcultures to Nike advertising.

Focuses attention on the actual practices of twenty-first century youth in the brave new world of globalization. This work highlights the practices of youth's identities in the context of broadly defined educative sites, including schools, media and popular culture, community organisations, cyberspace, music, and urban landscapes.

Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines.

Highlights the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and well being. This volume offers insights into how to increase the effectiveness of youth development and education programs, and how to create responsive youth policies at the local, state, and federal level.

Surviving School as a Dyslexic Teenager is an easy to read book looking at the coping/defence strategies used by teenagers both in and outside school.Understanding where these coping/defence strategies have come from (home influences, primary school, peer relationships, parent's own diagnosed/undiagnosed dyslexia) and giving help, common sense, tips, and career/college/university advice.This book is aimed at parents, educators, and dyslexic teenagers themselves.

Based on ethnographic research with young people permanently excluded from school, this title examines the resourcefulness of young black people in overcoming the process of school failure to forge more positive futures for themselves.

Describes the pedagogical importance of 'apprenticeship' - a movement based in schools, youth-serving organizations, and arts, civic, and other cultural institutions. In covering the complexities of apprenticeship learning, this book also challenges the education system that is geared towards the acquisition of de-contextualized skills.

Many scholars have turned to the critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people. This work offers a broad framework for understanding this research methodology.

Many scholars have turned to the critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people. This work offers a broad framework for understanding this research methodology.

Contains an examination of young women's multilayered lives. Exploring the ways in which girls' various cultural pursuits are tied to identity formation and relate to issues of class, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, ability, and, gender, this book highlights both limitations and opportunities afforded by globalization of youth consumer culture.

Developing a respect and understanding of youth-initiated creative practices and their importance in young people's lives, this book offers educators the opportunity to see how adolescents teach and learn of their own accord.

Written against the backdrop of important changes in social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics taking place in corporate culture's war on kids, this volume examines the intersection of youth culture and sport in an age of global uncertainty. It also includes chapters that range in scope from 'action' sport subcultures to Nike advertising.

Focusing attention on the actual practices of twenty-first century youth in the brave new world of globalization, this book addresses the possibilities and dangers of young people's transnational, commodified identities. It also highlights the practices of youth's identities in the context of broadly defined educative sites.

Highlights the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and well being. This volume offers insights into how to increase the effectiveness of youth development and education programs, and how to create responsive youth policies at the local, state, and federal level.

Most empirical researchers avoid the use of theory in their studies. This title bridges the age-old theory/research divide by demonstrating how researchers can use critical social theory to determine appropriate empirical research strategies, and extend the analytical, critical power of data gathering and interpretation.

Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines.