UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
British Columbia: Child and Youth Care in Action – IV
May 1 – 3, 2014
The 21st century is marked with a variety of unique and intersecting
issues, opportunities, and political realities. Child and Youth Care
(CYC) theory and practice continues to take place within and in response
to a range of relationships, discourses, and institutions. Our
relationship with the physical world is now understood with a sense of
urgency as never before. Globalized economic systems are impacting how
we organize on institutional and even interpersonal levels.
Technologically mediated worlds are altering who we are, how we engage
with each other, and how we envision and enact futures together.
These pressing issues are often cast to the margins of CYC discussions,
but are increasingly being experienced by many as central to the work we
do and the lives we live. Responding to Our Current Times will be an
opportunity to critically engage with these matters. It will be a chance
to explore diverse perspectives and experiences that can not only help
us better understand our current times, but also consider how we might
creatively engage with these realities. Together we will discuss
research, practice, theory, and policy as they relate to children,
youth, families, and communities.
Keynote speakers
Friday, May 2, 2014
Jennifer H. White – An Ethos for the Times: Difference, Imagination and
the Unknown Future in Child and Youth Care
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Dr. Marie Cooper and Ta'Kaiya Blaney – An inter-generational dialogue:
The power of connection for changing the future.
Special event
Screening of: A Sorry State on Saturday, May 3, 2014
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Ceremonial Hall, First Peoples House
http://www.uvic.ca/hsd/cyc/home/home/news/archive/current/conference-2014.php