Place, power, and possibility: Remaking social work with children and youth

Janet L. Finn, Lynn M. Nybell and Jeffrey J. Shook

Children and Youth Services Review, 2013, vol. 35, issue 8, 1159-1165

Abstract: This article introduces the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars and activists who critically examine the nature and boundaries of social work with children and youth. Their works explore the institutional and social spaces shaping young people's lives; deconstruct discourses, policies, and practices that shape meanings and experiences of childhood; and consider challenges for social work and possibilities for transformative action. In this essay the editors address the social construction of childhood; outline a framework for analysis informed by an understanding of the cultural politics of childhood; consider the relationship between neoliberal globalization and contemporary thought and practice regarding children and youth; and introduce cutting-edge scholarship addressing place, power, and possibility and the remaking of social work with children and youth.

Keywords: Cultural politics; Childhood; Neoliberalism; Power; Context; Transforming social work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.04.002

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