Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives: Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization - Softcover

Foster, Karen R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774823313 ISBN 13: 9780774823319

Verlag: UNIV OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 2013

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Poverty and unemployment are on the rise among Canadian youth. Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives looks at the issue from the perspective of those most affected, revealing the difficulties young people encounter with the “support system.” In-depth interviews with forty-five young people in Ottawa reveal that solutions do exist, predicated on recognition that the problem lies not with incorrigible youth, but with a social-aid structure that imposes barriers to success. Intervention is necessary, argue the authors, but not so much in the lives of young people as in the faulty structures that incorrectly presume how they interpret risk, poverty, and their own potential.

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Karen R. Foster is Banting Post-Doctoral Fellow inthe Management Department of the Sobey School of Business at SaintMary's University, Halifax. Dale C. Spencer is anassistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University ofManitoba..

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Poverty and unemployment are on the rise among Canadian youth.Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives looks at the issuefrom the perspective of those most affected, revealing the difficultiesyoung people encounter with the "support system." In-depthinterviews with forty-five young people in Ottawa reveal that solutionsdo exist, predicated on recognition that the problem lies not withincorrigible youth, but with a social-aid structure that imposesbarriers to success. Intervention is necessary, argue the authors, but not so much in the lives of young people as in the faultystructures that incorrectly presume how they interpret risk, poverty, and their own potential.

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Poverty and unemployment are on the rise among Canadian youth.Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives looks at the issuefrom the perspective of those most affected, revealing the difficultiesyoung people encounter with the "support system." In-depthinterviews with forty-five young people in Ottawa reveal that solutionsdo exist, predicated on recognition that the problem lies not withincorrigible youth, but with a social-aid structure that imposesbarriers to success. Intervention is necessary, argue the authors,but not so much in the lives of young people as in the faultystructures that incorrectly presume how they interpret risk, poverty,and their own potential.

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• Verlag: UNIV OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774823313
• ISBN 13: 9780774823319
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
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