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The Values of Youth in Canada What are the current values of Canada’s youth? Are they different than in the past? This research brief examines youth values in the context of increasing globalization, diversity and urbanization, and major transformations affecting the family and the labour market. The research brief focuses on the differences between youth and their seniors, and between various youth groups, according to social categories such as gender and education. |
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The Values of Youth in Canada What are the current values of Canada’s youth? Are they different than in the past? This research paper examines youth values in the context of increasing globalization, diversity and urbanization, and major transformations affecting the family and the labour market. The paper focuses on the differences between youth and their seniors, and between various youth groups, according to social categories such as gender and education. |
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Analytical Framework for Youth Policies In this briefing note, the Policy Research Initiative (PRI) puts forward an analytical framework to inform the Canadian policy making process on new realities, issues and challenges facing youth in various spheres of life and at different stages of the passage to adulthood. Beginning with an analysis of increasingly prolonged and non-linear pathways to adulthood and using this as a backdrop, the author proposes a framework founded on a life-course approach and illustrates the relationship between the trajectories taken by Canadian youth, the transitions that mark their life courses and the larger social structures in which these dynamics operate. |
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Current Realities and Emerging Issues Facing Youth in Canada In this report, the Policy Research Initiative (PRI) puts forward an analytical framework to inform the Canadian policy making process on new realities, issues and challenges facing youth in various spheres of life and at different stages of the passage to adulthood. Beginning with an analysis of increasingly prolonged and non-linear pathways to adulthood and using this as a backdrop, the author proposes a framework founded on a life-course approach and illustrates the relationship between the trajectories taken by Canadian youth, the transitions that mark their life courses and the larger social structures in which these dynamics operate. |
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Aboriginal Youth in Canada: Emerging Issues, Research Priorities, and Policy Implications On March 17, 2008, a roundtable was hosted in partnership with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada to examine the changing realities facing today’s Aboriginal youth and implications for public policy. This report discusses education, family and community well-being, and criminal justice as key issues for the medium-term policy research agenda. The report also describes the participants’ recommendations for successful approaches to research and policy development through more collaborative research practices and community or place-based policies. |
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Hope or Heartbreak: Aboriginal Youth and Canada’s Future This special issue of Horizons was a joint collaboration between the Government of Canada’s Policy Research Initiative and the Research and Analysis Directorate at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. This volume is part of one of the PRI's current interdepartmental projects, Investing in Youth: Evidence from Research, Policy and Practice. This special issue presents the latest research and analysis to highlight emerging trends, challenges and opportunities related to the rapidly growing population of Aboriginal youth within an aging and changing Canada. |
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Emerging Adulthood: A New Stage in the Life Course The purpose of this study is to propose a reflection on the definition of youth and of its relevance in policy development. Our analysis will focus on young adulthood, the period that straddles adolescence and adulthood and that researchers refer to as a new life stage.
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Boys’ Biopsychosocial Difficulties during the Teenage Years: Canadian State of Affairs for the 21st Century This paper provides a comprehensive review and synthesis of existing research on trends, prevalence and influences of risky social behaviours during adolescence, focusing specifically on the situation of young males in Canada.
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Emerging Youth Transition Patterns in Canada The objective of this study is to describe some of the most salient of the changes surrounding the passage to adulthood, with a careful review of existing Canadian literature and empirical research. Of particular interest are important changes in the life course patterns of the young, in terms of later home leaving, later completion of education, delayed full time entrance into the labour force, later union formation, and later childbearing and related risks and opportunities.
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