Description
Book SynopsisThis book reconceptualizes child and youth care by bringing critical and postmodern perspectives to bear on practices, programs, and policies.
Table of ContentsPreface: A Personal and Professional Journey / Alan Pence
Introduction / Alan Pence and Jennifer White
Part 1: Teaching and Theorizing Child and Youth Care
1 Articulating a Child and Youth Care Philosophy: Beyond Binary Constructs / J.N. Little
2 Rethinking Developmental Theories in Child and Youth Care / Veronica Pacini- Ketchabaw
3 Re-Stor(y)ing Professional Ethics in Child and Youth Care: Toward More Contextualized, Reflexive and Generative Practices / Jennifer White
Part 2: Critically Interrogating Gender in Child and Youth Care
4 Doing “Sissy” and “Tomboy”: Exploring Childhood Participation in and Resistance to Discourses of Gender and Sexuality / Jonathan Morris
5 Bottom of the Food Chain: The Minoritization of Girls in Child and Youth Care / Sandrina de Finney, Elicia Loiselle, and Mackenzie Dean
6 Father Involvement Initiatives: Social Inclusion or the (Re)Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity? / B. Denise Hodgins
Part 3: Expanding Perspectives in Child and Youth Care Practice
7 Northern Canadian Practice as a Site for Exploration of Child and Youth Care Identities: Inside and Outside Professionalization / Brooke Alsbury
8 Considering Street Outreach to Youth: Politics, Policies, and Practice / Mark L. Kelly
9 Contextualizing Care: Generating Alternatives to the Individualization of Struggles and Support by Considering Loss / Janet Newbury
Part 4: Policy Discourses in Child and Youth Care
10 Constructing and Regulating the Young Offender: Trends in Punishment from Colonial to Contemporary Canada / Lorinda Stoneman
11 Once upon a Time There Was a Ready Child: Challenging Readiness as a Single Story / Kathleen Kummen
Afterword / Jennifer White and Alan Pence
Index
