4.2 European Sociological Association, Research Network Youth and Generations in Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Editorial XI
4. Section 1 - European Studies
5. 1.1 Youth and Europe: Trends and Challenges 3
6. 1.2 Youth in Four Post-communist Countries: Political Values and Nationalist Traditions 13
7. 1.3 A Cross-cultural Comparison of Students' Concepts of Europe 33
8. 1.4 Voting Behaviour of Austrian Youth as Newcomers to the European Union 51
9. 1.5 New Trajectories of Young Adults in Europe. A Research Outline 61
10. 1.6 Designing a European Project on Adolescent Masculinities 89
11. 1.7 Attitudes of Dutch Young People towards Germany and the Germans 99
12. 1.8 Xenophobia among Young Germans in the Nineties 117
13. 1.9 Young Germans as Europeans: their Attitudes towards Europe 141
14. Section 2 - European Youth (Research) Policies
15. 2.1 News from the Youth Directorate of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg 161
16. 2.2 News from the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP), Thessaloniki 167
17. 2.3 News from the European Parliament, Brussels. VIP Interview with Luciana Castellina, President of the EP's Committee on Culture, Youth, Sports and Media 175
18. 2.4 Experiments in Civic Education: Youth Citizenship and NGOs in Post-communist Countries 181
19. 2.5 An Experiment in Youth Research Going European: the Case of Luxembourg 195
20. 2.6 Experimenting with a New European Agenda. British Research Programme: Youth, Citizenship and Social Change 205
21. 2.7 An Experiment in Learning about Greater Europe: the European Youth Centre Budapest 209
22. Section 3 - Vocational Training and Intercultural Learning
23. 3.1 Intercultural Learning - Big Bluff or Learning Strategy for the Future? Concepts, Objectives and Practices of Intercultural Learning in Informal Education 217
24. 3.2 Peer Group Education Today: an Approach in Anti-racist Work 231
25. 3.3 Binational Youth Exchange in Europe 243
26. 3.4 Do Joint European Vocational Training Standards Stand a Chance? Recognition and Transparency of Qualifications within the EU Member States 255
27. 3.5 Updating Vocational Training for Young People: Aspects of German-Hungarian Co-operation 269
28. Section 4 - Networks of European Youth Policy and Research
29. 4.1 International Sociological Association, Research Committee 34: Sociology of Youth 279
30. 4.2 European Sociological Association, Research Network Youth and Generations in Europe 285
31. 4.3 European Newsletter ULYSSES (Understanding Linkages in Youth Studies and Services in the European Scenery) 289
32. 4.4 Research Network EGRIS (European Group for Integrateci Social Research) 291
33. 4.5 Intercultural Network ECCE (European Centre for Community Education) 295
34. 4.6 Intercultural Network ISB (Interdisciplinary Study Group National Image Building) 299
35. 4.7 New International Journal of Youth Studies 301
36. Section 5 - Conference Reports
37. 5.1 Youth Information and Youth Research. New Approaches, New Strategies: the European Example (Marly-le-Roi/France) 305
38. 5.2 Growing up between Centre and Periphery, International Conference of the Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon/Portugal) 307
39. 5.3 NYRIS 5 - 5th Nordic Youth Research Symposium (Tønsberg/Norway) 309
40. 5.4 First Meeting of Czech and German Youth (Policka/Czech Republic) 311
41. 5.5 German-Dutch Meeting: Youth at Risk (Noordwijkerhout/Netherlands) 313
42. 5.6 Youth in the Information Society (Budapest/Hungary) 315
43. 5.7 Lifelong Learning in Europe: Options for the Integration of Living, Learning and Working? (Dresden/Germany) 319
44. Section 6 - Book Reviews
45. 6.1 White Paper on Education and Training: Teaching and Learning - towards the Learning Society. European Commission (ed.). Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Commission, 1996 325
46. 6.2 Young People and Associations in Europe. M. Vanandruel, P. Amerio, O. Stafseng and P. Tap. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 1996 329
47. 6.3 Growing up in Europe. Contemporary Horizons in Childhood and Youth Studies. L. Chisholm, P. Büchner, H.-H. Krüger and M. du Bois- Reymond (eds.). Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1996 333
48. 6.4 Illustrated History of Europe. Frédéric Delouche (ed.). London: George Weidenfeld and Nicholsen, 1993 337
49. 6.5 Youth and Life Management: Research Perspectives H. Helve and J. Bynner (eds.). Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1996 341
50. 6.6 The New Role of Women: Family Formation in Modern Societies. H.-P. Blossfeld (ed.). Oxford: Westview Press, 1995 345
51. 6.7 International Handbook of Adolescence. K. Hurrelmann (ed.). Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, 1994 349
52. Contributors 353