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On Monday, we will read The Agenda of Child and Youth Care – Political or Individual? (see page 152) and discuss how you might write a response to this article in your next blog. Your response will draw on Week 5 readings. Write a … Continue reading
A conceptual framework gives direction to your research question/study. It tells the reader your own position on the problem you are planning to investigate. Here are two examples from my own work in the Common World Childhoods Research Collective: Theoretical … Continue reading
The articles engage with feminist theories. There are many different feminist interpretations: Black feminism, standpoint feminism, first wave feminism, second wave feminism, third wave feminism, materialist feminism, new material feminism, science studies feminism, and so on… The readings engage with poststructural feminism … Continue reading
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We read…. that there might not necessarily be one benchmark for childhood; that there might not be diverse childhoods that can be thought of in relation to a ‘normal’ childhood. We have discussed that we cannot talk about a universal child figure … Continue reading
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This page includes resources that will help us to continue our discussion on theoretical perspectives in child and youth care. World Views A video series that addresses how early childhood scholars are thinking with different theories CBC Ideas A great podcast … Continue reading
Framing childhood in the 21st century We will discuss (in groups) three contemporary childhood discourses/practices, and connect them to concepts addressed in the readings (in blue below). Children’s healthy eating Governing of bodies Childhood subjectivities Childhood normalizing practices Power & … Continue reading
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I have been thinking about the concept of ecologies for some time now. My research within the Common World Childhoods Research Collective is an attempt to pay close attention to children’s messy, often unequal, ecologies – in other words, the ways in which … Continue reading
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Here is my plan for tomorrow’s class. Please comment if you have other ideas. We can start by listening to Mona Gleason’s lecture Constructing Child Health. My hope is that this provoking lecture will help us to start our discussion of the … Continue reading
Here are some key child and youth care resources that you might want to become familiar with: CYC-Net – you might want to join the CYC-Net Email Discussion Group, and check out the Journals. We will be reading some great commentaries from … Continue reading
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Our course is also framed around the politicized collective ethic that is outlined in Conversations on Conversing in Child and Youth Care. This collective ethic involves both “deconstructing the dialectic of CYC praxis with a focus on gender, identity and social … Continue reading