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When Professional Identity Meets Praxis: A Qualitative Study of Child and Youth Care Students

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  • Rebecca Stiller

    (MacEwan University)

  • Julie Masson

    (MacEwan University)

  • Stephen Neuman Neuman

    (MacEwan University)

  • Samantha Drynan

    (MacEwan University)

  • Laurie Feehan

    (MacEwan University)

  • Cassaundra Coombs

    (MacEwan University)

  • Bailey Smith

    (MacEwan University)

  • Curtis West

    (MacEwan University)

  • Gerard Bellefeuille

    (MacEwan University)

  • Lisa Stiksma

    (MacEwan University)

Abstract

A critical issue in Child and Youth Care (CYC) education is the development of a professional CYC identity. Students are often caught between the potentially conflicting roles of fitting into a perceived CYC identity archetype and developing their personal approach to CYC praxis. This qualitative study examined the ways in which CYC students perceive and experience constructs of identity in the field of CYC as well as the ways that they respond internally to such constructs. The research design utilized creative modes of inquiry both in the processes by which the research was conducted and in the methods used to represent research data. The combination of traditional data collection strategies with arts-based presentation methods provided the participants a powerful learning experience by opening up a meaning-making space. This meaning making generated important insights into and understandings of the politics of identity in relation to the development of the participants? unique sense of CYC praxis.

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  • Rebecca Stiller & Julie Masson & Stephen Neuman Neuman & Samantha Drynan & Laurie Feehan & Cassaundra Coombs & Bailey Smith & Curtis West & Gerard Bellefeuille & Lisa Stiksma, 2015. "When Professional Identity Meets Praxis: A Qualitative Study of Child and Youth Care Students," International Journal of Teaching and Education, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, vol. 3(3), pages 75-84, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sek:jijote:v:3:y:2015:i:3:p:75-84
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    1. Gerard Bellefeuille, 2014. "A Course-Based Creative Inquiry Approach to Teaching Introductory Research Methods in Child and Youth Care Undergraduate Education," Proceedings of International Academic Conferences 0301163, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
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