An Ethos for the Times: Difference, Imagination, and the Unknown Future in Child and Youth Care

Introduction: Possibilities, Futures, and Queer World-Making in Child and Youth Care

“…CYC emerged, and continues to emerge, from multiple intersecting and complementary theoretical lineages. White (2015) situated CYC as coming "out of a Euro-western, liberal humanist tradition [which] has been strongly influenced by colonial logic and the ideals of the Enlightenment" (p. 501). For Skott-Myhre & Skott-Myhre (2012), "One of the central theories that define the field of child and youth care is that of developmental psychology" (p. 172).…”

Risking Attachments in Teaching Child and Youth Care in Twenty-First-Century Settler Colonial, Environmental and Biotechnological Worlds

“…These risky attachments are necessary to create pedagogies that respond to the complex and difficult times we live in, which we have each begun to explore in different ways (see e.g. Common World Childhoods, 2015; Kouri, 2015;Kouri & SkottMyhre, 2015;White, 2015). Perhaps even more importantly, these risky attachments also make possible a child and youth care pedagogy that is life affirming, joyful and open to its own future.…”