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'It's all in the brain' science and the 'new' construction of the youth problem in New Zealand
This article explores historically and contemporary the way that 'science' is used to shape our understanding of the 'youth problem'. Its central focus is on the interplay between the 'new' science of neurology (brain science) and public policy showing how it is contributing to the construction of the youth problem in New Zealand. By drawing upon the evidence presented in the recent report from the Office of the Prime Minister's Science Advisory Committee on Youth Transitions (2011) this article shows the growing influence of this 'science' in New Zealand. The article then undertakes a critical review of 'adolescent brain science' suggesting that not only are there problems with the science but also the narrow focus of such 'science' acts to actively marginalise and devalue youth in New Zealand. The article goes on to suggest that the debates on scientific evidence in public policy also ignores relevant and important research developed by sociologists and other social scientists that could offer alternative approaches and valuable insights on youth behaviour for policy makers.
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A political ecology of youth and crime
\"This book proposes a new conceptual framework for theorizing young people's relationship with crime. It emerges from a critique of the narrow approach advocated by developmental criminology and argues for an analysis that recognizes and includes the important contribution that the young themselves can make to the theorizing and understanding of their relationship with crime. Explicitly using the voices of a group of working class young people who are defined as \"a social problem,\" this approach emphasis's how criminal identities and pathways are strongly influenced by the interactions embedded in political ecological systems and relationships. Drawing upon the work of the social psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this book explores young people's \"nested\" and \"political\" ecological relationships with crime. The Political Ecology of Youth and Crime examines the impacts of these relationships through an empirical investigation of the important \"places\" and \"spaces\" in young people's lives; in their social relationships with peers and family members; and within formal institutional systems such as education, youth justice and social care. This book makes an important new contribution to how we understand the relationship between youth and crime in the contexts of sociology, criminology, social psychology and education.\"--Publisher's website.
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Colonial Disparities in Higher Education: Explaining Racial Inequality for Māori Youth in Aotearoa New Zealand
While recent research shows a gradual increase of young Māori in Higher Education it remains the case that inequality amongst the Indigenous population remains entrenched and institutionalised. This article explains how national governments in Aotearoa New Zealand have failed to address the colonial disparities and inequalities in the Higher Education system. In this process we will show, through the lens of historical privilege and institutional racism, how these processes continue to shape and frame both opportunities and experiences for Māori youth. The article will also highlight what strategies are needed if a more inclusive Higher Education system is to be developed that addresses the disparities that young Māori encounter.
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Christian Dior : designer of dreams
Christian Dior's first collection in 1947 heralded the birth of a new fashion silhouette for women. Here, seventy of the most memorable looks created by Christian Dior and his successors--Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferrâe, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri--have been specially selected and photographed in intimate detail. This essential volume also features those designs in original sketches, runway shots, and fashion shoots by the world's greatest fashion photographers, including Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, William Klein, and Helmut Newton. Exploring the classic elements of Dior in depth, the book covers the concept of line and architecture in fashion; the influence of history and art; the use of color; gardens and landscapes as sources of inspiration.
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From Being to Becoming: The Importance of Tackling Youth Poverty in Transitions To Adulthood
The central emphasis of New Labour's anti-poverty strategy has been on tackling child poverty. While such an approach is both important and valuable youth poverty has been given limited attention. Low and unstable incomes are a major cause of poverty amongst young people and risks are greatly increased as they try to live independently and move out of the family home. In the discussion that follows, I argue that New Labour's continued commitment to the social exclusion agenda has marginalised both the problem of youth poverty and the necessary solutions. Social exclusion policy is more concerned with responsiblising families and young people and disciplining them to work regardless of its value. Little attention is given to addressing the problems of youth incomes or providing adequate housing support for those most vulnerable to poverty.
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Beyond Risk Factors: Towards a Holistic Prevention Paradigm for Children and Young People
Since the mid 1990s early intervention and prevention has become a central feature of public policy across the western world. This development has had a major impact on re-constructing the prevention paradigm in children and youth services. It has been underpinned by the emergence of the science of risk factor analysis (RFA). This paradigm has had mixed success in prevention work but has gained significant political credence and support. While RFA has reshaped prevention approaches it does have methodological and practice limitations. This paper argues for a more holistic approach to prevention policy and social work practice, one that recognises risk but does not allow it to dominate. We explore the growing body of evidence for RFA, outlining both its strengths and weaknesses and show how a more holistic approach can be adopted. We argue that the fundamental focus for analysis and intervention needs to recognise the social and cultural context of developmental pathways, and emphasises needs to be on relations between levels of organisation in a child's or young person's developmental process . We draw on the Australian Pathways to Prevention Programme to illustrate how social work can and should be developed to create more holistic approaches to prevention.
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Dialectics of Self: Structure and Agency as the Subject of English
Argues that both composition and literary studies have a common pedagogical vocation and that by harvesting some very general insights from two decades of cultural critique, English departments can develop curricula that will resolve a good deal of the conflict between literature and composition and improve instruction in both. (SC)
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Theory Cop: Kurt Spellmeyer and the Boundaries of Composition
In his review essay, \"Out of the Fashion Industry: From Cultural Studies to the Anthropology of Knowledge\" (CCC 47.3, October 1996, pp. 424-36), Kurt Spellmeyer writes from a position largely incurious about its own cultural and historical formation, from what might be called an autobiographical position. After having criticized Henry Giroux for a failure to \"step down from theory's arid heights\" to the realities of the classroom (the very issue that Giroux himself is concerned with!), Spellmeyer subtly shifts the \"real split\" from that between theory and practice to that \"between two different versions of professional authority\" (427). [...]the concept of culture helped teach us that differences among people should only be understood relatively. The growth of interdisciplinary education and research, the revolution in information technologies, the increasing saturation of our students' lives with media controlled by international conglomerates, the disappearance of public forums, the impending desiccation of the humanities by the political and fiscal pressure of global capitalismall these and more suggest the need for new critical methods, new research, new pedagogies.
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Responses to “Traditions and Professionalization: Reconceiving Work in Composition”
Offers two essays responding to Horner's article in a previous issue of this journal. Argues for redefinition of \"professionalization,\"\"evaluation,\" and the uses of professional authority in relation to students' and other laypeople's knowledges. Discusses the need for professional organizations and unions, and the ongoing need to theorize one's subject/discipline/profession. Includes Horner's response. (SR)
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