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The Nexus Between Youth and Mobile Phones in Botswana
Almost two decades since the advent of mobile telephony countrywide, Botswana has recorded a significant growth in mobile phone subscription and use....
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Term-Time Employment and the Long Transition to the Labor Market
Increasing educational participation rates in many countries have led to a delayed transition to full-time employment for young adults. As a result,...
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Thinking About Children and Youth
This section highlights critical and reflexive approaches to the concepts of childhood and youth, framing the scholarship that is reflected in this...
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Youth and Play: World-Making in the Real and the Imagined
This introductory chapter provides an overview and analysis of literatures engaging with the study of youth, cultural practice, and play. Using Wyn’s...
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Learning Sites: Tensions and Productive Possibilities
For this Learning section of the Handbook, we will not explore the more conventional dimensions of learning such as pedagogy or curriculum but...
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Children and Youth: Influences on Policy and Practice
Childhood studies and sociocultural theory, together with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, have influenced policy and...
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Longitudinal Effect of Depression from Adolescence to Young Adulthood on Educational Attainment and Marriage of Taiwanese Youth
Research has posited a correlation between adolescent depression and compromised outcomes in adulthood. Additionally, there exists a discernible...
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Mobility Exchanges and the “Experience” of Learning on the Move
The chapter begins from an acknowledgment of the porous boundaries between formal and non-formal education. Such opportunities are supported across...
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Young People and the Promise of Sustainable Futures: Rethinking Learning in/for the Anthropocene
Prominent posthumanist philosopher Rosi Braidotti (Posthuman knowledge. https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/rosi-braidotti/...
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Performative Pedagogy: Poststructural Theory as a Tool to Engage in Identity Work Within a Youth-Led HIV Prevention Program
This chapter discusses the use of poststructural theory as a way to inform ways of working with marginalized young people from population groups...
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Space and Place in Studies of Childhood and Youth
This introductory chapter explores space, place, and time as dimensions of childhood and youth. Exploring space and time is a way of moving beyond...
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One-Act Shakespeare: Teaching Cultural Legacy Through Excerpts and Adaptations
Despite widespread resistance to teaching Shakespearean drama through excerpted passages, an alternative to the standard two-week study of a...
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Green Shakespeare and the Environmental Studies Classroom
As early modern scholars and teachers, we often discuss the need to defend our field of study—to make Shakespeare relevant to our students and...
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Online Shakespeare: Beneficial Learning Experiences for Non-Majors
When studying Shakespeare’s plays, most undergraduates struggle with close reading, textual analysis, and interpretation. Engaging with and...
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Enhancing Creative Engagement with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and Othello and Gen-Z Culture
Teaching Shakespeare to non-majors is one of the most rewarding tasks an English professor can embrace. Students who are not English majors offer...
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“To Double Business Bound”: Shakespeare and Gen Ed
The opportunity to teach Shakespeare beyond the major often hinges on General Education requirements. At the University of Tennessee, where I teach,...
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Artist and Agency: Technologies for Exploring Self and Place
This chapter explores how software-based compositional processes can be used to explore relationships between self and place. The process of creating...
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The Humanitarian Misunderstanding in the Postcolonial Humanitarian African Imagination
This chapter records the contributions of the postcolonial humanitarian African imagination to critical investigations of humanitarianism in Africa....
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Historical Roots of South African Ambivalence Toward “Africa”
Post-apartheid South African foreign policies manifest a resilient ambivalence toward the rest of Africa, but conventional narratives routinely omit...