Child and youth care
Subtitle: critical perspectives on pedagogy, practice, and policy
By: edited by Alan Pence and Jennifer White
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780774821308
Subjects: Social work with children; Service social à la jeunesse; Service social aux enfants; Social work with youth
Description: "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. Chapters in Part 1 redefine the field by offering new theoretical frameworks which, in turn, raise questions about the underlying goal of care and its place in current political agendas. For instance, what unspoken understandings of child, youth, or family well-being are being privileged? To answer these questions, chapters in Part 2 explore underdeveloped issues such as gender, the experiences of girls, and the involvement of fathers, while those in Parts 3 and 4 question beliefs about northern communities, homeless youth, early childhood programs, and young offenders.  By focusing on approaches that recognize a range of social and political influences on children and youth, this volume bears witness to new and exciting developments in child and youth care."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: a personal and professional journey / Alan Pence; title: Introduction / Alan Pence and Jennifer White; title: Acronyms; title: Teaching and theorizing child and youth care. Articulating a child and youth care philosophy: beyond binary constructs / J.N. Little; title: Rethinking developmental theories in child and youth care / Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw; title: Re-Stor(y)ing professional ethics in child and youth care: toward more contextualized, reflexive, and generative practices / Jennifer White; title: Critically interrogating gender in child and youth care. Doing "Sissy" and "Tomboy": exploring childhood participation in and resistance to discourses of gender and sexuality / Jonathan Morris; title: Bottom of the food chain: the minoritization of girls in child and youth care / Sandrina de Finney, Elicia Loiselle, and Mackenzie Dean; title: Father involvement initiatives: social inclusion or the (re)construction of hegemonic masculinity? / B. Denise Hodgins; title: Expanding perspectives in child and youth care practice.Northern Canadian practice as a site for exploration of child and youth care identities: inside and outside professionalization / Brooke Alsbury; title: Considering street outreach to youth: politics, policies, and practice / Mark L. Kelly; title: Contextualizing care: generating alternatives to the individualization of struggles and support by considering loss / Janet Newbury; title: Policy discourses in child and youth care. Constructing and regulating the young offender: trends in punishment from colonial to contemporary Canada / Lorinda Stoneman; title: Once upon a time there was a ready child: challenging readiness as a single story / Kathleen Kummen; title: Afterword / Jennifer White and Alan Pence.