Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 302-317).

This thesis asks how voice enables youth to claim agency within divided societies, and what are the implications of this in terms of conflict and peacebuilding? It is an analysis of the significance of young people's voices to international relations. The research is framed in terms of human rights and human security, children's rights, and recognition theories. Its aim is to draw conclusions both about the nature of voice and agency, or power, and about how the framing of the present research in this area impacts the ability of the discourse to take into account the significance of listening to those who are marginalized. From these starting points the thesis will explore questions such as the following: In what ways do children have a voice? If young people had more of a voice, would it make a difference? Does having a voice lead to power? If so, does this create a culture of respect for this voice, and in turn an increase in the speaker's ability to claim agency? Does increasing participation have an impact upon people's likeliness to resort to violence? These aspects are important because they contribute to knowledge and frameworks for peacebuilding in post-conflict areas and the link between voice and violence may provide a key to reducing youth violence in post-conflict areas, but most significantly, hearing young voice could contribute to a sustainable peace, envisioned by and cultivated by the very generation that must own that peace if it is to become lasting.

Despite theoretical and policy advancements in global human and gendered approaches to development, youth in mainstream development policy discourse remains subsumed. The ratification of global best practice models of human development in Nigeria, without contextualizing the probable dividends of youth capability strength in shaping national development realities, will present challenges that are likely to threaten the sustainable future of country. Perhaps if this is sustained, this thesis argues that the capabilities of Nigerian youths will continue to remain trapped or mismatched in areas that they fail to contribute positively to Nigeria's national development. In this regard, this thesis evaluated the extent to which youth capabilities are enhanced in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for national development in Nigeria. Firstly, this thesis contributes conceptually to understanding, broadly, the social constructions of youth in mainstream policy discourse and their positioning in both global and national development practice in Nigeria. It also critically examines through literature how western epistemological interpretations of development theorizing are reproduced in youth discourse. Succinctly, the theoretical contribution of youth in development explains how development-underdevelopment dualism in mainstream development reproduces similar youth-adult dualisms in conceptualizing how youths are recognized, represented and constituted within policy discourses. Based on this, the theoretical gaps that this thesis bridges, operationalizes the Sen's capability approach (SCA) through the utilization of Narayan-Parker's empowerment framework in order to contextualize how the intersections of youth agency and structural contributions of the NYSC could aid the effective utilization of youth capabilities for national development in Nigeria. Secondly, this thesis contributes methodologically to development practice as it adapts a mixed-method approach (MMA) to researching youth lives, especially from a developing country's context. The application of a qualitative dominant mixed method approach (qual-MMA), suggests how through social constructivist ontology and through poststructuralist epistemology, the understanding of how youths socially construct their identity and the roles they play in national development becomes clearer. Thirdly, the germane and empirical contribution of this thesis especially to mainstream development theorizing is that, youth voices captured through narratives and quantitative data helped explore the experiences of Nigerian youth's transition pathways from education to the NYSC pathway. This further allowed for critical examination of how youths are: absorbed through mobilization into the NYSC; developed through the activities in the scheme; deployed and utilized in addressing national development challenges in Nigeria. This thesis suggests that dominant social constructions based on age and transition patterns, undermine the impact/effective functioning of youth capabilities for addressing national development challenges. It concludes that limited support structures during the youth educational pathways and lack of opportunity structures while youths are in the NYSC pathways continue to limit the functioning of their capabilities in sectors of national development needs. It recommends a need to rethink the current deployment strategy of the NYSC so that youth capabilities fit the national development narrative.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1990.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-07-25T11:55:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Márcia Campos Eurico.pdf: 1131630 bytes, checksum: dc73d93f3b2f7dbc6f76ce1fa15758cb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-25T11:55:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Márcia Campos Eurico.pdf: 1131630 bytes, checksum: dc73d93f3b2f7dbc6f76ce1fa15758cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The research has sought to analyse how the institutional racism takes place in black children's and teenagers daily routines and how much thispractice keeps deep relation to the accredited forms of black bodies control during slavery period in Brazil. The methodological procedures involved bibliographic documental research from 3 axes: racial democracy, institutional racism and institutional sheltering, whose analytical reading allows it to establish the criticism to the infancy attention model, materialised into the service daily routine; and field research in the institutions with the realization of focus group directed to the professionals. By immersing into the complex institutional sheltering process, behind the appearance of a safe place - with a roof, warm bed and five daily meals - a fact that professionals present it as a synonym of sheltering, what in fact is revealed as a projected institution to frame these children and adolescents, condemn them to confinement and reinforce, besides the non-belonging concept, their families' degeneration. If the daily-life is a place for thoughtless practices and loaded with ideology, the institutional sheltering services also incorporate these practices and perform the institutional racism, without embarrassement, because they represent the State which has played their eminent role of "poor" infancy and adolescence guardian. It is concluded that the institutional sheltering service target public has history, social class and race/color, and the priority task is to emerge this history so that the essence of sheltering phenomenon may be known as one more maneuver of controlling capitalism over the worker's class / A pesquisa buscou analisar como se materializa o racismo institucional no cotidiano de crianças e adolescentes negros(as) e o quanto esta prática guarda profunda relação com as formas legitimadas de controle dos corpos negros no período da escravidão no Brasil. Os procedimentos metodológicos envolveram pesquisa documental bibliográfica, a partir de três eixos: democracia racial, racismo institucional e acolhimento institucional, cuja leitura analítica permite estabelecer a crítica ao modelo de atenção à infância, materializado no cotidiano dos serviços; e pesquisa de campo nas instituições, com a realização de grupos focais dirigidos aos profissionais. Ao mergulhar no complexo processo de acolhimento institucional, por detrás da aparência de um lugar seguro − com teto, cama quentinha e cinco refeições diárias − fato que os profissionais, via de regra, apresentam como sinônimo de acolhimento, o que se revela é uma instituição projetada para enquadrar essas crianças e adolescentes, condená-los ao confinamento e reforçar, além do não lugar, a degeneração de suas famílias. Se o cotidiano é lugar de reprodução de práticas irrefletidas e carregadas de ideologia, os serviços de acolhimento institucional também incorporam estas práticas e reproduzem o racismo institucional, sem constrangimentos, porque representam o Estado que se colocou no eminente papel de guardião da infância e adolescência “pobres”. Conclui-se que o público-alvo dos serviços de acolhimento institucional tem história, tem classe social e tem raça/cor, e a tarefa prioritária é fazer emergir essa história para que se possa conhecer a essência do fenômeno de acolhimento como mais uma manobra do capitalismo de controle sobre a classe trabalhadora

Thesis (D. Min.)--Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Bexley Hall, Crozer Theological Seminary, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-85).

Thesis (doctoral)--Würzburg, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-357).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Bexley Hall, Crozer Theological Seminary, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-85).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Bexley Hall, Crozer Theological Seminary, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-85).

This diploma thesis is focused on the topic of religious education of youth in the Church of Brethren. Its main aim is to describe the process of religious education of youth according to the theoretical and practical sources of the Church of Brethren. The results were compared in the last part of the thesis to the educational concepts of other churches studied in the theoretical part. The theoretical part defines the terms related to religious education such as catechesis, pastoral care, evangelization, discipleship, religious pedagogy etc. It also includes the characteristics of the Church of Brethren and youth in the context of postmodern era. The last chapter deals with religious education of youth in church in general with regards to the personality of a youth pastor, educational goals and teaching methods. The practical part is designed as an analysis of three areas: Department of Youth of the Church of Brethren, other Christian organizations working with youth and an interview with the Leading pastor of the Council of the Church of Brethren who has been working with youth for many years. The results of each area are further reflected in the context of the studied literature. The results indicate that religious education of youth in the Church of Brethren is mostly focused on evangelization,...