Stories of Another Kind: Engaging in Generative Conversations in Pedagogical Spaces

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

“…As Chapman, Hoque, and Utting (2013) put it, "white people's naming of racism [frequently] contributes to their exaltation as moral and as on the side of justice" (p. 35). I will say a bit more about how complicated all this is (see also Hoskins, 2012;Skott-Myhre & Little, 2014), but for now, I will just note that Child and Youth Care, as a professional field of helping, is never innocent or outside of this colonial history (Little & Walker, 2014;Loiselle, de Finney, Khanna, & Corcoran, 2012;Saraceno, 2012;SkottMyhre, 2006).…”

“…The creative work of Julian Stodd, who writes (and illustrates) a blog on the topic of the social age, social leadership, and collaborative learning, has also been an important touchstone. I am also building on the important work of many CYC scholars who have been thinking and writing about diversity, ethics and, sociopolitically informed approaches to practice in theoretically robust and imaginative ways (deFinney, Little, Skott-Myhre, & Gharabaghi, 2012;Hoskins, 2012;Pacini-Ketchabaw, 2014;Skott-Myhre & Little, 2014;Kouri, 2014;Loiselle et al, 2012;Newbury, 2009). …”