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Food education has become an umbrella term covering various understandings of our relationship with food, originating from diverse research contexts. There is often the need to form a "holistic" understanding of what food education is and what it does. In this article, we explore a holistic approach to food education and how an informal learning environment can promote and contribute toward a holistic approach to food education. We conducted our study at four youth centers in Finland. The data were collected from seven focus groups of young people who took part in group discussions and whom we observed. We analyzed our data using content analysis. The young people developed food-related skills when discussing different food choices, planning meals, preparing food, and eating together. They evaluated their skills and talked about the kinds of food they made and why. They displayed "holistic thinking:" they created common meanings for food and considered issues related to the food system and environment. Our results indicate that informal settings comprise an important dimension of a holistic approach to food education. To improve food education in the future, we need not only a holistic approach, but also a more thorough understanding of its meanings and dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of the present study is to examine the attitudes of university students towards youth centers. This study was conducted by using descriptive survey model. Population of the study consists of university students who are members of Youth Centers within the body of Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Turkey, while the sample consists of 141 participants who are members of Youth Centers within the body of Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Turkey. "Personal Information Form" and "The Scale of Attitude Towards Activities of Youth Centers" were used in the study. Student t-test, one-way analysis of variance and Tukey multiple comparison tests were used in data analysis. No significant difference was found in the variables of gender, educational status, family income and having a youth center member in the family. Significant difference was found in The Scale of Attitude Towards Activities of Youth Centers sub-dimension scores and total score in the variables of age, membership duration, frequency of visiting and number of siblings. In addition, significant difference was found in volunteering sub-dimension scores and total scores of The Scale of Attitude Towards Activities of Youth Centers in the variable of the state of doing sports. Therefore, it is thought that it is important to have activities to enable new members to participate in the activities. These activities could include contests with prizes, domestic and international trips, and scholarship opportunities. It can also be recommended to organize activities by considering the education lives of university students so that they can participate in the activities of youth centers more frequently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Critical reflection and transformative action in a cyclical rhythm are the fundamental features of the process of praxis (Freire, P. [1970]. Pedagogy of the oppressed. Continuum). A self-study methodology was used to explore the lead researcher's pedagogical experiences teaching at a youth development center (YDC) while utilizing praxis as critical reflection. Those pedagogical experiences included both teaching physical education to the students at the center, and instructing a cohort of Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) students as they participated in a field experience there. The research question that guided this study was: how have the lead researcher's pedagogical experiences at a YDC prompted praxis? Data were expanded upon in recorded interviews with an experienced colleague who probed and interviewed the lead researcher. Interview data were interpreted using qualitative methods. The findings of this study are derived from the lead researcher's critical reflections and are organized into two major themes: (a) unexpected success prompting praxis: a vignette ... and (b) praxis prompting pedagogy as an early teacher educator. The first theme describes the lead researcher's initial experiences while teaching physical education at the YDC. The second theme outlines the lead researcher's critical reflection and pedagogical experiences while teaching preservice teachers using the YDC as a context for a field experience. Lastly, the implications of his pedagogical experiences at the YDC are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aimed to determine the level of organizational culture for social workers in youth centers, as well as to determine the level of institutional performance development in youth centers. It also intended to identify the relationship between organizational culture and the development of institutional performance for social workers in youth centers. The study included (63) youth participants. The researchers applied a questionnaire for social workers in youth centers. The study proved the significant intensity of the level of organizational culture for social workers and the level of developing institutional performance in youth centers. The study also demonstrated that there is a relationship between organizational culture for social workers and the development of the institutional performance of youth centers; hence, the study proved the validity of its objectives and hypotheses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Mobile health applications can help to disseminate educational health interventions and be widely used. However, mobile health applications not carefully developed will likely not be adopted by the intended users. This paper describes the methodology used to develop a mobile health application for teaching critical thinking about health to youth attending youth friendly centres in Rwanda. The app includes the adapted content of a children's "health choices book". We adapted the book into audio podcasts to fit the context of young adults. The application was developed following a framework for developing mobile health applications. The framework follows three theories: health belief model, the theory of planned behavior and technology acceptance model. We developed an Android based application which can be freely accessed in the Play store. The content in the app explains the need for critical thinking, the 10 audio podcasts, the support, and chat window where users share their experience of using the app. The app will be piloted in two youth centers in Rwanda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we investigate the discursive context of community-based youth centers to critically interrogate ideas and practices concerning leisure, youth, and youth centers. Using publicly available documents and data collected with youth at two community-based youth centers, we ask, what is the "good"' they do for young people, and how do young people negotiate these discourses? We argue that youth centers operate in a discursive tension, constructed as a place to change by the (organizational) bodies that establish them, and a place to chill by the (youth) bodies that use them. We trace how these discourses entered into the everyday lived contexts of youth centers, including their program logics, measures of success, and constructions of youthful subjectivities. We close with a discussion of the implications of the research in terms of how youth and recreation practitioners might use youth centers to support young people's leisure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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There has been a global paradigm shift in conceptualizing how best young persons can be assisted from a conventional deficit-based approach of targeting youth to a more enabling approach of promoting their strengths and competencies. Establishment of youth centers was one such global initiative meant to catalyze positive youth development through supervised and youth-friendly services. In recognition of this, several youth centers have been established in Ethiopia in the last few decades. This research was thus conducted to examine contributions of these centers to the development of young people. Data were collected through questionnaire from a sample of 2,165 participants (service providers and service users) and observation of 94 youth centers drawn from all regions of the country. Findings indicated that the contributions of youth centers were generally minimal in terms of promoting overall positive youth development. Some evidence even showed that youth centers could serve as a platform for acquiring undesirable behaviors among the youth mainly because supervisory and follow up services were not evident. While expanding establishment of youth centers is indeed commendable to ensure access to the greater majority of youth, the need to improve service quality, however, is a priority concern for the relevant actors.

This study aims to identify the role of recreational sports activities in youth centers in enhancing community security system from the point of view of workers in Amman Youth Directorate. The researcher used a descriptive approach. The study population consisted of (81) workers, and the sample consisted of (39) employees in the Capital Youth Directorate (31 male and eight female employees). The researcher used a questionnaire as a tool for data collection. The results of the study indicate that the assessment of the role of recreational sports activities in youth centers in strengthening community security system from the point of view of workers in the youth directorate of Amman was high. The results also showed that there were differences on the total score of the scale due to gender in favor of males and educational qualification in favor of high school. The results do not show differences due to years of experience, however. The researcher recommends enhancing programs for recreational sports activities within the programs of youth centers and increasing the budget of sports programs by the Jordanian Ministry of Youth.

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The author details how he co-elaborated with the poetics of care of former youth centre Rzoezie in Mechelen, Belgium. Topics discussed include poem collections written by youngsters at Rzoezie, the youth centre's experimentation with self-organization, care, solidarity, and emancipation beyond the limits consented by the government, and the closure of the Rzoezie imagination following the reform to Regional Open Youth Centre Mechelen.

This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over the course of one year in London and Bristol to examine the performance of rap in English youth centres. Youth centres play a significant role in supporting and shaping rap culture. However, historically dominant narratives within hip-hop studies and hip-hop culture depict rap as a vernacular cultural form that emerges from 'the street', and which derives its authenticity through its relation to 'the street'. We seek to move beyond such discourses and towards a recognition of the institutional processes, structures and networks that shape and sustain rap culture. Our focus on the institutional life of rap leads to an analysis of the various possibilities, limitations and tensions that arise in the coming together of public funding, and social policy priorities, local organisations and black vernacular culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to identify the role of youth centers in developing individual responsibility towards society. The study used the social survey method. A random sample of 272 individuals was collected. The study concluded that there is a large role for youth centers in developing social responsibility towards society. According to these results, the study recommended not to restricting affiliation to youth centers with a specific age group, encouraging young people to affiliate with youth centers, and undertaking external visits to gain experience in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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