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Involving Methods in Youth Research
This edited volume develops critical discussions of prominent methodological approaches in participatory youth research. Chapters give special attention to power issues and dilemmas concerning young people’s and researchers’ involvement in research processes. The collection brings together perspectives of authors from throughout Nordic countries, all with comprehensive experience of qualitative research methods involving young people.
"In Search of …"
This collection of fifteen methodological texts by a group of thirty international youth and social researchers is a polyphony of scholarly voices advancing the field of qualitative inquiry in youth studies. The book homes in on ways of adapting, remixing and reconsidering qualitative methods in order to better serve youth researchers in the twenty-first century. The texts included in this collection offer honest and open accounts of searching for, assembling, testing, and rejecting creative, well-known, or unconventional techniques from various methodical homes. As is emphasized in the title, this is not so much an overview as an inquiry into conducting youth research in an environment that is constantly transforming. Researchers are always seeking out the best ways to capture and (co)-produce meaning that can be used for the greater good. This book offers fresh interpretations of, and feedback on, inventive combinations of methods, research questions and theoretical frameworks. It will be of interest to all who work in youth studies and sociology, and particularly useful to postgraduate students, junior scholars, and established researchers seeking to branch out into new terrain.
Social Work and Child Welfare Politics
Drawing on contemporary research and debates from different Nordic countries, this book examines how social work and child welfare politics are produced and challenged as both global and local ideas and practices.
Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health
Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness. The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to place more responsibility on the individual rather than address fundamental societal flaws that really should be solved politically. It examines how such responsibility to psychologically deal with these problems affects our mental health and quality of life. This book questions the fundamentals of the life mastery curriculum where we might be risking the creation of just another arena where children have to perform, challenging readers to evaluate more closely the premises, consequences and limitations of life mastery. The book, one of the first to question ‘life mastery’ as an achievable goal with critical reviews of the 21st century skills movement, will be of interest to psychologists, school counsellors, teachers, students, politicians, and any reader evaluating school curriculums in relation to the decline in youth and adolescent mental health.
Nordic Civic Society Organisations and the Future of Welfare Services
When well functioning national welfare states are put under pressure, also the tasks of civic society and citizens' mutual responsibility are being re-defined. Hence, the significance of the civic society organisations in one of the most successful and stable circumstances of welfare states - in Northern Europe - is of great interest. This publication gives a first comprehensive overview of existing research on civic society organisations in the area of welfare services in the five Nordic countries. Besides a comparative Nordic analysis, focussed national contributions are provided. Finally, leading European researchers connect the Nordic debate in to a stimulating European context. How far are the Nordic welfare traditions still of significance, since all welfare states are similarly challenged by the global market economy? Can welfare organisations provide opportunities even for the most vulnerable groups to achieve full citizenship?
Music and Peacebuilding
There is growing interest among scholars and practitioners in how the arts can help rebuild post-conflict societies. This edited collection explores a range of musical practices for social and political peace. By presenting case studies in each chapter, the aim is to engage with musicality in relation to time, space, peace-building, healing, and reconciliation. Emerging scholars' work on Latin America, especially Colombia, and on the African Great Lakes region, including Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Kenya, is brought together with the purpose of reflecting critically on 'music for peace-building' initiatives. Each author considers how legacies of violence are addressed and sometimes overcome; lyrics are examined as a source of insights. These practical “music for peace-building” initiatives include NGO work with youth hip-hop, music for peace, work in education on memory, as well as popular culture and shared rituals. Special attention is paid to historical and contextual settings, to the temporal and spatial dimension of musicality and to youth and gender in peace-building through music.
Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory
This book brings together philosophical, social-theoretical and empirically oriented contributions on the philosophical and socio-theoretical debate on migration and integration, using the instruments of recognition as a normative and social-scientific category. Furthermore, the theoretical and practical implications of recognition theory are reflected through the case of migration. Migration movements, refugees and the associated tensions are phenomena that have become the focus of scientific, political and public debate in recent years. Migrants, in particular refugees, face many injustices and are especially vulnerable, but the right-wing political discourse presents them as threats to so...
Livsmestring på timeplanen
Kan skolen lære oss å mestre livet? Fra høsten 2020 kommer folkehelse og livsmestring inn i læreplanen i den norske skolen. Denne oppdateringen av Kunnskapsløftet er hilst velkommen av elever og lærere, helsepersonell og samtlige politiske partier. Men lar egentlig livet seg mestre? Er mestring en god målestokk for hvordan vi bør leve? Og vil livsmestring som tema i skolen svare på de vanskene barn sliter med i dag? Psykolog og filosof Ole Jacob Madsen mener at innføringen av livsmestring i skolen viser en tendens i vårt samfunn til å legge stadig mer ansvar på individet – i dette tilfellet barna våre. Det virker enklere å lære dem å takle presset, enn å faktisk redusere det. Men er vi bare i ferd med å lage enda en arena der barna skal prestere? Ole Jacob Madsen (f. 1978) er professor i kultur- og samfunnspsykologi ved Psykologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo. Her forsker han på psykologiens påvirkning på samtidskulturen.
Nabo – Unges oplevelser af social inklusion i Danmark
Undersøgelsen indgår som det danske delstudie af det nordiske projekt NABO – unges sociale inkludering i Norden. Lignende studier bliver udført i Sverige, Finland og Norge, samt på Island, Grønland, Færøerne og Åland. Studiet undersøger unges oplevelser og erfaringer med social inklusion i forskellige dele af Danmark. Med udgangspunkt i de unges oplevelser, erfaringer og fortællinger vil dette studie beskrive, hvordan unge voksne oplever at være socialt inkluderet i dagens Danmark.
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