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This book by Carla Falavigna explores the educational journeys of young people from rural areas in Argentina, focusing on their transitions from high school to university. It examines the challenges and motivations related to pursuing higher education, including the desire to return to their hometowns and contribute to their communities. The author investigates the social, cultural, and economic factors that influence these students' decisions and experiences. Aimed at those interested in educational sociology and rural studies, the work provides insights into the role of education in personal and community development.

Rural youth. --- Educational sociology. --- Rural youth --- Educational sociology

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Many people believe that Africa will struggle to create jobs for its rapidly-growing population, and that rural youth will eventually migrate to cities or other countries. This text uses survey data to create a nuanced understanding of the constraints and opportunities facing rural youth in Africa.

Rural youth --- Employment --- Africa --- Rural conditions. --- Youth, Rural --- Youth --- Eastern Hemisphere

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Working Childhoods draws upon research in the Indian Himalayas to provide a theoretically-informed account of children's lives in a remote part of the world. The book shows that children in their pre-teens and teens are lynchpins of the rural economy, spending hours each day herding cattle, collecting leaves, and juggling household tasks with schoolwork. Through documenting in painstaking detail children's stories, songs, friendships, fears and tribulations, the book offers a powerful account of youth agency and young people's rich relationship with the natural world. The 'environment' emerges not only as a crucial economic resource but also as a basis for developing gendered ideas of self. The book should be essential reading for anyone interested in better understanding childhood, youth, the environment, and development within and beyond India - including anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, development studies scholars, and South Asianists.

Rural youth --- Human ecology --- Youth, Rural --- Youth --- Social conditions. --- Employment --- Barnarbete. --- Human ecology. --- Jugend. --- Lantarbetare. --- Ländlicher Raum. --- Socialantropologi. --- Employment. --- Social conditions --- Himalaya. --- India. --- Indien. --- Uttaranchal.

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The 2020 World Happiness Report suggests that rural residents in Northern and Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand are generally happier than their urban counterparts. Similar findings have been reported in country-level studies and broader regional research, especially in Europe. Such findings go against conventional wisdom in the field and represent something of a conundrum to researchers and policymakers alike: the rural-urban happiness paradox. Is quality of life really better in the countryside? How and under which circumstances is this the case? Did influential writers like Edward Glaeser get it all wrong when suggesting that the city had now triumphed? What can we learn from digging deeper in the rural-urban happiness paradox and which critical questions does this leave us with for the future? What might policymakers, planners, architects and other influential actors learn from such an exercise? The purpose of the proposed book is to delve deeper into these matters by asking what quality of life in rural areas is actually all about. Since 2018 a cross-disciplinary team of researchers from four research environments at three Danish universities has been carrying out an ambitious research project to do just that. In this edited volume their findings are presented alongside chapters written by specially commissioned international authors from across Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

Rural population. --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural --- Rural population --- Rural conditions --- Rural life --- Social history --- Everyday rural life. --- built environment. --- civil society. --- community planning. --- cultural resilience. --- measuring subjective wellbeing. --- moral geography. --- rural youth. --- social diversity. --- urban discourses.

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In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume investigates that trend, drawing on Hansen's fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers, and officials of different generations, genders, and social backgrounds form what is essentially a miniature version of Chinese society. Hansen paints a complex picture of the emerging “neosocialist” educational system and shows how individualization of students both challenges and reinforces state control of society.

Education and state --- Educational change --- Education, Rural --- Rural youth --- Education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Change, Educational --- Education change --- Education reform --- Educational reform --- Reform, Education --- School reform --- Educational planning --- Educational innovations --- Youth, Rural --- Youth --- History --- Government policy