Search Results: Adultism

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  2009 Winter Newsletter: Adultism

  In the United States today millions of young people live in poverty, lack health care, experience physical, emotional, and sexual abuse from adults, and experience inadequate educational opportunities and a lack of living wage job opportunities. Many live in toxic Read more...

  Issue: Young People

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  Learning Adultism

  Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. All articles may be quoted, adapted, or reprinted only for noncommercial purposes and with an attribution to Paul Kivel, www.paulkivel.com. Creative Commons Attribution Read more...

  Issue: Young People

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  Adultism

  WHY DO YOUNG PEOPLE do poorly in school? Why do young people use drugs, or hang out on street corners, or get pregnant? A common answer to these questions is that many teens have low self-esteem, generally defined as a Read more...

  Issue: Young People

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  Interview with Intersections Radio

  Paul speaks with Intersections Radio about adultism, Christian hegemony and how racism works. k Listen to internet radio with IntersectionsRadio on BlogTalkRadio Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. Read more...

  Issue: Racial Justice, Religion, Uprooting Racism 4th Edition

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  The Free Child Project

  The FreeChild Project advocates, informs, and celebrates social change led by and with young people around the world, especially those who have been historically denied the right to participate. The organization facilitates trainings and workshops, and offers an excellent online Read more...

  Issue: Young People

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  Working with Young People

  Working with Youth As adults (and youth) who work with and support young people, we can use some help and direction in how to do this work well. We are part of a group that, both in fact and in Read more...

  Issue: Young People

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  Introduction from Helping Teens Stop Violence

  Introduction from Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community, and Stand for Justice by Paul Kivel & Allan Creighton, 2011 edition The following excerpt comes from the twentieth-anniversary edition of what was originally titled Helping Teens Stop Violence. Our first book Read more...

  Issue: Violence Prevention, Young People

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  Myths and Facts about Violence

  THERE IS A COMMON PROCESS of public speaking and public education which relies on a technique I’ll call “myths and facts.” It is used in the rape crisis and domestic violence movements, which is the area I work in, so Read more...

  Issue: Violence Prevention

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