scholarly journals Introduction to special issue: an exploration of child and youth care pedagogy and curriculum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanne Jean-Pierre ◽  
Sandrina de Finney ◽  
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Preservice Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Child And Youth Care

This special issue aims to explore Canadian pedagogical and curricular practices in child and youth care and youth work preservice education with an emphasis on empirical and applied studies that centre students’ perspectives of learning. The issue includes a theoretical reflection and empirical studies with students, educators, and practitioners from a range of postsecondary programs in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. The empirical articles use various methodologies to explore pedagogical and curricular approaches, including Indigenous land- and water-based pedagogies, ethical settler frontline and teaching practices, the pedagogy of the lightning talk, novel-based pedagogy, situated learning, suicide prevention education, and simulation-based teaching. These advance our understanding of accountability and commitment to Indigenous, decolonial, critical, experiential, and participatory praxis in child and youth care postsecondary education. In expanding the state of knowledge about teaching and learning in child and youth care, we also aspire to validate interdisciplinary ways of learning and knowing, and to spark interest in future research that recognizes the need for education to be ethical, critically engaged, creatively experiential, and deeply culturally and environmentally relevant. Keywords: child and youth care (CYC), youth work, human/social services, pedagogy, curriculum, higher education, praxis, preservice education

scholarly journals Introduction to special issue: an exploration of child and youth care pedagogy and curriculum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanne Jean-Pierre ◽  
Sandrina de Finney ◽  
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Preservice Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Child And Youth Care

This special issue aims to explore Canadian pedagogical and curricular practices in child and youth care and youth work preservice education with an emphasis on empirical and applied studies that centre students’ perspectives of learning. The issue includes a theoretical reflection and empirical studies with students, educators, and practitioners from a range of postsecondary programs in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. The empirical articles use various methodologies to explore pedagogical and curricular approaches, including Indigenous land- and water-based pedagogies, ethical settler frontline and teaching practices, the pedagogy of the lightning talk, novel-based pedagogy, situated learning, suicide prevention education, and simulation-based teaching. These advance our understanding of accountability and commitment to Indigenous, decolonial, critical, experiential, and participatory praxis in child and youth care postsecondary education. In expanding the state of knowledge about teaching and learning in child and youth care, we also aspire to validate interdisciplinary ways of learning and knowing, and to spark interest in future research that recognizes the need for education to be ethical, critically engaged, creatively experiential, and deeply culturally and environmentally relevant. Keywords: child and youth care (CYC), youth work, human/social services, pedagogy, curriculum, higher education, praxis, preservice education

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Johanne Jean-Pierre ◽  
Sandrina De Finney ◽  
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Prevention Education ◽  
Child And Youth Care ◽  
Curricular Practices

This special issue aims to explore Canadian pedagogical and curricular practices in child and youth care and youth work preservice education with an emphasis on empirical and applied studies that centre students’ perspectives of learning. The issue includes a theoretical reflection and empirical studies with students, educators, and practitioners from a range of postsecondary programs in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. The empirical articles use various methodologies to explore pedagogical and curricular approaches, including Indigenous land- and water-based pedagogies, ethical settler frontline and teaching practices, the pedagogy of the lightning talk, novel-based pedagogy, situated learning, suicide prevention education, and simulation-based teaching. These advance our understanding of accountability and commitment to Indigenous, decolonial, critical, experiential, and participatory praxis in child and youth care postsecondary education. In expanding the state of knowledge about teaching and learning in child and youth care, we also aspire to validate interdisciplinary ways of learning and knowing, and to spark interest in future research that recognizes the need for education to be ethical, critically engaged, creatively experiential, and deeply culturally and environmentally relevant.

scholarly journals Family-focused practices in addictions: a scoping review protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. e019433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toula Kourgiantakis ◽  
Rachelle Ashcroft
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Interventions ◽  
Hand Search

IntroductionFamilies are significantly impacted by addictions and family involvement in treatment can reduce the harms and can also improve treatment entry, treatment completion and treatment outcomes for the individual coping with an addiction. Although the benefits of family-focused practices in addictions have been documented, services continue to have an individual focus and research on this topic is also limited. The objective of this study is to map the extent, range and nature of evidence available examining family interventions in addictions and identify gaps to guide future research, policy and practice.Methods and analysisThis is a scoping review using the five-stage framework developed by Arksey and O’Malley. We will include published and unpublished empirical studies focusing on any type of family interventions in addiction treatment between 2000 and the present in English or French. A reviewer will search for literature that meets the inclusion criteria through the following electronic databases: MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Social Services Abstracts. For a comprehensive search, we will also hand-search reference lists, web sites and key journals. Data will be charted and sorted using a thematic analysis approach.Ethics and disseminationThis review will be the first to examine all forms of family-focused practices for both substance use and problem gambling treatment for adults. It will provide information about existing service provisions and gaps in practice. This review can be used to start moving towards the development of best practices for families in addiction treatment. The results will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed journal and at mental health and addiction conferences.

scholarly journals TOWARD QUEER POTENTIALITIES IN CHILD AND YOUTH CARE

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 104-128
Author(s):  
Bobbi Ali Zaman ◽  
Ben Anderson-Nathe
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Human Growth ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Child And Youth Care ◽  
Naturally Occurring

Arguably, from the invention of adolescence at the beginning of the 20th century, developmental theory has served as the foundation of disciplinary study and professional practice with children and youth across the global West. Despite their founders’ assertions that development is culturally constructed, in educational and youth work practice contexts stage-based trajectories of normative human growth are largely erroneously accepted as ahistorical, apolitical, naturally occurring, and universally applicable. This paper presents critiques of developmentalism from historical, reconceptualist, and queer perspectives, calling into question the underlying principles of normalcy and abnormality that run through the developmental project. We pay particular attention to the potential of queer theory as an analytic to deconstruct developmentalism in the context of child and youth care, opening new possibilities for critical engagement with children and youth outside the context of development.

scholarly journals Poised to advocate: the pedagogy of the lightning talk in child and youth care education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanne Jean-Pierre ◽  
Sabrin Hassan ◽  
Asha Sturge ◽  
Kiaras Gharabaghi ◽  
Megan Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
First Century ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Metacognitive Skills ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Child And Youth Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Oral Presentations ◽  
Purposive Sample

Abstract: Advocacy is an integral part of child and youth care workers’ roles and a significant component of child and youth care politicized praxis and radical youth work. Drawing from the qualitative data of a mixed-methods study conducted in 2019 at a Canadian metropolitan university, this study seeks to unpack how the pedagogy of the lightning talk can foster advocacy skills to effectively and spontaneously speak out with and on behalf of children, youth, and families in everyday practice when an unforeseen systemic challenge or barrier arises. A purposive sample of 70 undergraduate students was recruited in two child and youth care courses, both of which required students to present a lightning talk. Participants completed an online questionnaire with closed-ended and open-ended questions in order to share their perspectives of the pedagogy of the lightning talk. The findings show that the lightning talk fosters twenty-first century and metacognitive skills and, most importantly, advocacy skills. Keywords: pedagogy, lightning talk, oral presentations, advocacy, child and youth care, youth work

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION: POSSIBILITIES, FUTURES, AND QUEER WORLD-MAKING IN CHILD AND YOUTH CARE

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Vachon ◽  
Mattie Walker
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Child And Youth Care

In this introduction, the authors situate this special issue within the current sociopolitical contexts of child and youth care (CYC) and offer potentialities through “queering CYC”. They consider how CYC might be analyzed through a queered lens, outline ways CYC has, and has not, taken up queer theory, and imagine what a queered CYC might (un)become. The authors provide context for this issue and invite queer generosity in reading how queering can be in conversation with CYC.

Rites of passage and child and youth care: An overview of the special issue

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 301-303
Author(s):  
Jim Anglin ◽  
Sibylle Artz ◽  
Dan Scott
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Child And Youth Care

scholarly journals What Can Eye Movements Tell us about Visual Perception Processes in Classroom Contexts? Commentary on a Special Issue

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna K. Kaakinen
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Movement Data ◽  
Excellent Starting Point ◽  
Starting Point

Abstract In this commentary to the Special Issue of Educational Psychology Review on visual perceptual processes, I tie the empirical studies reported in the issue with previous research in other domains to offer some points to be considered in future studies. First, I will point out to issues related to the operationalization of the theoretical constructs. The empirical papers in this Special Issue use eye tracking to study students’ engagement, teachers’ expertise, and student-teacher interaction. However, it is not always clear how the observed eye movement patterns reflect these theoretical concepts and the underlying psychological processes. Second, I will reflect on the analyses of the eye movement data presented in the papers. The main advantage of the methodology is that it can provide detailed information about the time-course of processing, and to fully engage its potential, it should be complemented with adequate statistical methods. In my view, the papers in this Special Issue provide valuable novel information about the complex processes underlying learning in variable contexts, and offer an excellent starting point for future research.

Call for papers for a special issue of Child and Youth Care Forum

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 360-360
Author(s):  
Valerie Kuehne ◽  
Sibylle Artz
Keyword(s):  
Youth Care ◽  
Youth Care Forum ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Child And Youth Care

scholarly journals The information literacy and continuous professional development practices of teachers at a Jewish Day School

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-627
Author(s):  
Aviel Cogan ◽  
Konstantina Martzoukou
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Day School ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Jewish Day School ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate how in-service teachers within the context of an American Jewish day school perceive, practice and develop Information Literacy (IL) as a sociocultural practice and through Continuing Professional Development (CPD). A research gap exists in relation to empirical studies which examine sociocultural IL practices and the CPD learning experiences of in-service teachers within the professional environment of their work. Two emergent and compatible frameworks for investigating teachers’ IL practices and CPD in context are identified and discussed within that context: the sociocultural approach and the interactive CPD model. Design/methodology/approach The research adopted an interpretivist phenomenological perspective. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with six teachers to explore their IL experiences. Questions addressed the participants’ previous background, the working culture of the school, approaches to learning and developing new knowledge, sources and methods of obtaining work-related information, IL practices and the differences between IL and CPD practices. Findings Although teachers value the role of IL in their professional lives and they have confidence in their performance of it, they remain confounded by the IL terminology. Within the teachers’ everyday working environment, the primacy of social and embodied information and the centrality of information sharing demonstrated the social and experiential nature of learning and the significance of contextualisation to IL development. The study found IL, CPD and learning to be inseparable, as they intersected within a single, organic situated learning practice of becoming an expert in context. Originality/value This study makes valuable contributions to theory by supplying empirical evidence of sociocultural IL practices, linking the currently disparate scholarships on IL, CPD and learning and providing suggestions for future research. In addition, the study demonstrates alternative avenues for developing teachers’ IL and offers recommendations for supporting their CPD.

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