Rather than telling young people not to sext, we should encourage them to think about sexting as part of a broader negotiation of intimate relationships.
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Cyberbullying has become destructive and feels unstoppable. Here is a five-step technique for dealing with it.
In the 1990s, older Californians struggled to make way for a younger, more diverse generation. Here’s how that ‘racial generation gap’ transformed the state – and what it means for the rest of the US.
A political scientist finds out about Indonesia’s youth “political preferences”.
When after-school clubs aren’t properly monitored, they can become risky spaces.
New research suggests people who start volunteering before age ten will keep doing so as they grow up.
Unless the government is willing to increase taxes elsewhere to pay for tax cuts there will be longer-term costs for the budget and the economy. And younger Australians will wear these costs.
Greens Jordon Steele-John on being an ‘accidental’ senator
New Greens senator Jordon Steele-John is the youngest person ever to sit in the Senate.
Entrepreneurship is a matter of society. Schools should be engaged to coach students, starting at an early age, by working on their perception of self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention.
Australia is becoming wealthier, but much of that wealth remains concentrated in the hands of older generations.
Young people have a poor understanding of Australian democracy, which must be redressed by the education system if they are to become full citizens.
When children and young people have opportunities for active citizenship, they demonstrate a wide range of ways of contributing to their communities.
As students return to school and prepare to join sports teams, here’s what they and their parents need to know about concussions.
Memories of our carefree youth help form our identity today. But memories are selective. So, were we really as wild as we think we were?
A deeper analysis of South Africa’s joblessness reveals a scarier picture of large sections of the population suffering, especially the country’s youth.
According to famed anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, the central question of our times is whether we’re witnessing the worldwide rejection of liberal democracy and its replacement by some sort of populist…
Allowing young people to legally access marijuana will improve cannabis education and use-prevention, and hinder illegal activity.
Research is revealing that both families who have experienced adolescent family violence and those working with them feel the criminal justice system is not an appropriate way to respond to it.
Musicians who learned how to play through a state-funded program called El Sistema are taking their instruments to the streets to protest the government.
Research shows that the Globe and Mail has created a script in which marginalized youth can only be dealt with as failures or criminals, impacting the way they are perceived in society.
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Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies, Monash University
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Professor of Political Sociology, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Sociology, Western University
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Professor, Département des sciences de l'activité physique, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Associate Professor, Educational Technology, Université Laval
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PhD candidate (health), Dalhousie University
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Senior Lecturer, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury
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Distinguished Professor in School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney