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The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada
Edited by Xiaobei Chen, Rebecca Raby, Patrizia Albanese
December 2017
Print ISBN: 9781773380186
Overview
The sociology of childhood and youth has sparked international interest in recent years, and yet a reader highlighting Canadian work in this field has been long overdue. Filling this gap in the literature, The Sociology of Childhood and Youth Studies in Canada brings together cutting-edge Canadian scholarship in this important and growing discipline.
Thought-provoking and timely, this edited collection explores a breadth of essential topics, including research on and with children and youth, the social construction of childhood and youth, intersecting identities, and citizenship, rights, and social engagement. With a focus on social justice, the contributing authors critically examine various sites of inequality in the lives of children and young people, such as gender, sexuality, colonialism, race, class, and disability.
Encouraging further development of Canadian scholarship in the sociology of childhood and youth, this unique collection ensures that young people’s voices are heard by involving them in the research process. Pedagogical supports—including learning objectives, study questions, suggested research assignments, and a comprehensive glossary—make this volume an invaluable resource for students of childhood and youth, child and youth care, and early childhood education programs across Canada.
Features
- focuses on social justice and includes young people’s voices, articles on Indigenous youth, and exploration of various sites of inequality in children and young people’s lives, including gender, sexuality, race, and class
- includes pedagogical features such as student learning objectives, chapter summaries, study questions, suggested research assignments, and further recommended readings, websites, and video clips
Table of Contents
Contributors
Introduction: Taking Stock and Claiming Space for the Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada
Xiaobei Chen, Rebecca Raby, and Patrizia Albanese
Section I — Research on and with Children and Youth
Chapter 1 • Adults Researching with Children
Rachel Berman and Maggie MacNevin
Chapter 2 • “You Even Wrote Down Our Homework!: Ethnography and Creative Visual Methods in Doing Research Along with Children and Young People
Diane Farmer
Chapter 3 • “We Can Play Whatever We Want: Exploring Children’s Voices in Education and in Research
Kate MacDonald
Chapter 4 • About Us, By Us and Other Stories of Arts-Based Research and Marginalized Girls
Marnina Gonick
Chapter 5 • “Breaking with Inside Experience: Navigating Practical and Scholarly Knowledge in Research with Young People
Jacqueline Kennelly, Valerie Stam, and Lynette Schick
Section II — Social Construction of Childhood and Youth
Chapter 6 • Perceptions of Our Childhood: Confronting Social Constructions of Care, Disability, and Childhood
Jihan Abbas
Chapter 7 • Studying Friendship among Children at School from a Sociological Approach to Childhood
Nathalie Bélanger
Chapter 8 • Pedagogy and Propriety: A Gendered Analysis of Children’s Fairy Tales
Nicole Andrejek
Chapter 9 • Racism, Culture, and Power in Children’s Books
Xiaobei Chen
Chapter 10 • From Babies to Teens: Children Are a Marketer’s Dream
Cheryl Williams and Natalie Coulter
Section III — Inequalities and Intersections in Experiences of Childhood and Youth
Chapter 11 • By the Year 2000? Child Poverty in Canada
Patrizia Albanese
Chapter 12 • Settler Colonialism, Biopolitics, and Indigenous Children in Canada
Dale C. Spencer and Raven Sinclair
Chapter 13 • Giving Voice: Prioritizing Youth Agency in Criminal Justice Diversion
Voula Marinos, Nathan Innocente, and Christine Goodwin-DeFaria
Chapter 14 • Making Friends, Negotiating Belonging: How Immigrant and Refugee Youth Negotiate Peer Relations to Claim Belonging
Erwin Dimitri Selimos
Chapter 15 • Dress Codes as Gender Politics: Feminist Action in Canadian High Schools
Rebecca Raby and Shauna Pomerantz
Chapter 16 • Queer and Trans at School: Gay-Straight Alliances and the Politics of Inclusion
Cameron Greensmith and Adam Davies
Section IV — Citizenship, Rights, and Social Engagement
Chapter 17 • Doing Children’s Rights: Moving beyond Entitlements and into Relationships in Canadian Contexts
Noah Kenneally
Chapter 18 • Between Children’s Rights and Disability Rights: Inclusion and Participation of Children and Youth with Disabilities
Cornelia Schneider
Chapter 19 • The Civic and Political Engagement of Canadian Youth
L. Alison Molina-Girón
Chapter 20 • Negotiating Youth Citizenship and Belonging in a Toronto “Priority” Neighbourhood
Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah
Glossary
