Critical and postmodern perspectives have been largely underexplored in the field of child and youth care. This book addresses the gap, showcasing cutting-edge approaches to policy, pedagogy, and practice from diverse perspectives and professional settings.The authors of Child and Youth Care challenge deep-seated assumptions about child and youth care by reinterpreting core concepts such as ethics and outcomes and raising questions about underlying goals and premises. Can the ends of practice be separated from the means? For whose benefit are interventions designed? By recognizing a range of social and political influences on children and youth, this volume bears witness to exciting developments in child and youth care.
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This book reconceptualizes child and youth care by bringing critical and postmodern perspectives to bear on practices, programs, and policies.
Preface: A Personal and Professional Journey / Alan PenceIntroduction / Alan Pence and Jennifer WhitePart 1: Teaching and Theorizing Child and Youth Care1 Articulating a Child and Youth Care Philosophy: Beyond Binary Constructs / J.N. Little2 Rethinking Developmental Theories in Child and Youth Care / Veronica Pacini- Ketchabaw3 Re-Stor(y)ing Professional Ethics in Child and Youth Care: Toward More Contextualized, Reflexive and Generative Practices / Jennifer WhitePart 2: Critically Interrogating Gender in Child and Youth Care4 Doing “Sissy” and “Tomboy”: Exploring Childhood Participation in and Resistance to Discourses of Gender and Sexuality / Jonathan Morris5 Bottom of the Food Chain: The Minoritization of Girls in Child and Youth Care / Sandrina de Finney, Elicia Loiselle, and Mackenzie Dean6 Father Involvement Initiatives: Social Inclusion or the (Re)Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity? / B. Denise HodginsPart 3: Expanding Perspectives in Child and Youth Care Practice7 Northern Canadian Practice as a Site for Exploration of Child and Youth Care Identities: Inside and Outside Professionalization / Brooke Alsbury8 Considering Street Outreach to Youth: Politics, Policies, and Practice / Mark L. Kelly9 Contextualizing Care: Generating Alternatives to the Individualization of Struggles and Support by Considering Loss / Janet NewburyPart 4: Policy Discourses in Child and Youth Care10 Constructing and Regulating the Young Offender: Trends in Punishment from Colonial to Contemporary Canada / Lorinda Stoneman11 Once upon a Time There Was a Ready Child: Challenging Readiness as a Single Story / Kathleen KummenAfterword / Jennifer White and Alan PenceIndex
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Child and Youth Care provides a new vision for child and youth care … Educators, practitioners, researchers, and policy makers will find this valuable resource to be on the leading edge of what we desperately need in order to better respond to the needs of the [people] we work with.
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This innovative collection signals a new direction for child and youth care by calling into question the field’s most deeply held assumptions about knowledge, power, and practice.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774821315
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
380 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
260

Biographical note

Alan Pence is UNESCO Chair for Early Childhood Education, Care and Development and a professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria.

Jennifer White is an associate professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria.

Contributors: Brooke Alsbury, Mackenzie Dean, Sandrina de Finney, B. Denise Hodgins, Mark L. Kelly, Kathleen Kummen, J.N. Little, Alan Pence, Elicia Loiselle, Jonathan Morris, Janet Newbury, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Lorinda Stoneman, and Jennifer White.