BY LISA PAWLOSKI Adolescent girls in developing countries are often considered a nutritionally at-risk group. Nutritional anthropologists study the impact of nutrition on adolescent growth and development and the sociocultural factors which influence nutritional status. Ten years ago, I examined the nutritional status of adolescent girls living in Mali, West Africa, and found them to [...]
BY RANDA KAYYALI Supply and demand has fuelled the circuits of production at the global level for many years now. Like other products, the offerings from higher education institutions have changed over the years. From the 1960s on, student exchanges were the dominant form of international education, but there are newer forms of global outreach [...]
BY PAULINE E. GINSBERG In systematic study of the effects of globalization on adolescents outside Western Europe and North America, teens are depicted as passive recipients of changes in worldwide socio-political and economic events driven by the behavior of the great economic, technological, and political powerhouses of the United States, the European Community, and technologically advanced [...]