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Beyond the Stereotypes: An Inside Look at Canada's Emerging Millennials
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Bibby, Reginald W. – Education Canada, 2010
Stereotypes about teenagers typically result in negative views of young people and contribute to the age-old idea that every new generation of teenagers is somehow inferior to previous ones. One of the reasons for the prevalence of inaccurate stereotypes about teenagers in Canada is that people have not been having very many national conversations…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Young Adults, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Counteracting Age Stereotypes: A Self-Awareness Manipulation
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Chen, Yiwei; Pethtel, Olivia; Ma, Xiaodong – Educational Gerontology, 2010
The major goals of the present study were to (a) examine age differences in susceptibility to age stereotypes and (b) test a self-awareness manipulation in counteracting age stereotypes. Young and older adults read two sets of descriptors that only differed in the to-be-ignored age-related information. In the high self-awareness condition,…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Older Adults, Videotape Recorders, Age Differences
The Cultural Identity of Today's Kalmyk Young People
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Nuksunova, A. M. – Russian Education and Society, 2009
In the past 10 years, there has been a tendency in Kalmykia to drift away from traditional culture, the foundation of which has been the Buddhist teaching adopted by the Kalmyks in the 17th century, and also, most directly, the Kalmyk language, which has lost its definitive importance in Kalmyk society. Young people of Kalmykia today express…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Cultural Literacy, Cultural Maintenance, Identification
Tackling the NEETs Problem: Supporting Local Authorities in Reducing Young People Not in Employment, Education and Training
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Learning and Skills Network (NJ3), 2009
Too many young people between the ages of 16 and 19 find themselves in the category which is usually referred to as NEET (not in employment, education or training). Research shows that disengagement at this age is disastrous in personal terms; causes problems in the community in the form of nuisance and crime; leads to long-term costs in increased…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Adults, Structural Unemployment
"Nostalgia for the Past," or What Lessons Young People Could Have Learned and Did Learn
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Zorkaia, Nataliia – Russian Education and Society, 2009
The hope that young people would accept and quickly learn Western ideas and democratic principles rather than just economic and technological achievements occupied a key place in the conceptions of the liberal and democratic parties in Russia. The possibilities of the modernization of Russian society and its economy were associated directly with…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values
HIV Education in the Formal Curriculum
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Nsubuga, Yusuf K.; Bonnet, Sandrine – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
The AIDS epidemic presents a complex of issues that require global answers, involving entire societies. The only sustainable solution is to include all sectors of society in a multidisciplinary collaboration, within which the formal education system plays a key role in delivering a comprehensive response to the disease at the national level.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Young Adults, Sexuality