Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People

This Open Access book presents an in-depth portrait of the use and impact of digital technologies by learners ages 5-18 years in their everyday lives. The portrait is framed by the ecological-systems theory and situated across four domains: home, leisure time, education, and civic participation. Various methodological approaches are used in innovative ways to analyze data collected in a large-s…

Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship

We acknowledge with gratitude the funding received from the Academy of Finland DEVELOP-programme (2018–2022) for the research project Theory and practice of learning to be a citizen: Experiences from Tanzania and Uganda (decision numbers 316098 and 316100) and from the Eudaimonia Institute of the University of Oulu for the research project Citizenship in Change: Constructing a Novel Theo…

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022

While film and television have a long tradition in tourism marketing, the potential of video games is overlooked. This study unlocks a novel era of marketing by investigating the interplay between experiential factors and ingame experiences, and how they may contribute to one’s intention to visit ingame destinations. By taking Assassin’s Creed Odyssey as the study context, game world d…

Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship

The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating for one particular framework, the authors demonstrate the continuously contested nature of the concept of citizenship as both theoretically discussed by philosophers and practi…

Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship

The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating for one particular framework, the authors demonstrate the continuously contested nature of the concept of citizenship as both theoretically discussed by philosophers and practi…

Practices of citizenship in East Africa :perspectives from philosophical prag…

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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation

Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation uses original readings of Machiavelli’s texts to develop a new theoretical model of democratic practice. Christopher Holman identifies two unique ideas in Machiavelli through his rearrangement of Machiavellian concepts. The first, drawn primarily from The Prince, is an image of the individual human being as a creative subject that seeks th…

Youth ‘At the Margins’ Critical Perspectives and Experiences of Engaging…

This volume comes at a critical juncture, as global commitments transition from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals and the wider post-2015 development agenda is being discussed and debated. In these discussions, children and youth have been recognized as one of the nine major groups of civil society whose participation in decision making is essential for achieving…