Youth Futures: Comparative Research and Transformative Visions - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0275974146 ISBN 13 : 9780275974145

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2002

Synopsis

How do young people see the future? Are they optimistic or pessimistic? Do their views vary from culture to culture? Are young people actively engaged in creating their desired futures or are they passively receiving the future? What effect has globalization on youth culture? How is the future taught in schools? These and many other questions are dealt with in this volume of comparative empirical research from around the world on how youth see the future.

Generally, youth are considered immature, irresponsible toward the future, cliquish, impressionistic, and dangerous toward self and others. They are considered as a mass market—two billion strong—the passive recipients of globalization. Most recently in OECD nations, youth have become fodder for political speeches—they are the problem that reflects both the failure of the welfare state (dependence on the state), the failure of globalization (unemployment), and postmodernism (loss of meaning and the crisis of the spirit). In the Third World, youth are seen not only as the problem, but equally as the force that can topple a regime (as in Yugoslavia). However, youth can also be seen as carriers of a new worldview, a new ideology.

These and other views concerning youth are examined in this volume of comparative empirical research. Studies from around the world provide intriguing answers to questions about how youth see the future and their future roles. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, students, researchers, and policymakers involved with youth issues and future studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

JENNIFER GIDLEY is an Educational Psychologist and Futures Researcher. She has published widely in education and youth futures, most recently co-editing The University in Transformation (Bergin & Garvey, 2000).

SOHAIL INAYATULLAH is Visiting Professor, Department of Future Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan, Visiting Academic, the Communication Center, Queensland University of Technology, and Professor, International Management Centers Association. He is co-editor of the Journal of Futures Studies. Among his books is Macrohistory and Macrohistorians (Praeger, 1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0275974146
• ISBN 13: 9780275974145
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Gidley Jennifer, Inayatullah Sohail
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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