Naomi Nichols

Youth Work

An Institutional Ethnography of Youth Homelessness

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Produktbeschreibung

Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parents or guardians, as well as of the difficulties of the frontline workers who take responsibility for assisting them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 267g
• ISBN-13: 9781442615557
• ISBN-10: 1442615559
• Artikelnr.: 40906793

Autorenporträt

Naomi Nichols is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. Nichols’ primary research focus is youth equity. She has published extensively on structural and policy drivers of inequality, poverty, and homelessness. Her secondary research focus is on processes of mobilizing diverse forms of knowledge to influence equitable social and policy change. Her central objective is to generate and mobilize an evidence base, which will drive processes of practice, policy and institutional change

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Research: Community-Based Institutional Ethnography
2. Getting Welfare
3. “Signing Out” of Care
4. Youth “At Risk”
5. The Institutional Coordination of Youth Work
6. Walking the Line: Research and Development Work with SYS
Conclusion
References
Index