N Blanchet-Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 8740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Blanchet-Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Blanchet-Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | BLANCHET-COHEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5411-9638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Dynamic Framework for Promoting Rights-Based Youth Allyship
Even the Small Work That I Do, It Has Impact, It Has Meaning”: Collective Meaning-Making in Youth Climate Groups
This article focuses on participation in youth-led climate-oriented groups and the role of this form of civic engagement for young people. Thirty interviews were conducted with 13- to 18-year-olds belonging to four groups: Extinction Rebellion Youth, Sustainabiliteens, Sunrise Movement, or school-affiliated clubs. The participants had been part of their group for an average of 1.5 years, coming from either the United States (n = 26) or Canada (n …
Advancing Children’s Rights through Law and Policy: Experiences from Brazil, Scotland, and South Africa
This article presents experiences of advancing children’s participation in law and policy in Brazil, Scotland and South Africa. It is based on a conversation that took place in a webinar hosted by the Policy Working Group of the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership. Using duoethnography, we delve into three issues: (1) ways children participate in the development of child-related laws and policies; (2) the leverage points for navig…
Indigenous-Driven Youth Consultations: Reclaiming the Process through Meaningful Participation
La participation authentique des jeunes Autochtones s’inscrit dans le contexte historique plus large des consultations avec les peuples autochtones du Canada, qui reproduisent souvent la dynamique du pouvoir colonial. Cet article décrit une consultation qui, menée par des Autochtones au Québec, offrait des espaces adaptés à la culture où les priorités étaient établies par les jeunes. Les formats des consultations entreprises par quatre organisati…
Community Envelops Us in This Grey Landscape of Obstacles and Allows Space for Healing”: The Perspectives of Indigenous Youth on Well-Being
This paper presents Indigenous youths’ perspectives on well-being. Using Indigenous youth participatory action research with the Indigenous youth advisory committee of the Québec Youth Research Network Chair (Canada), community care emerged as the central feature of well-being and was then visually presented in the form of a postcard. We discuss the meaning given to community care, the factors that support it, and the role that a visual illustrat…
Accompagnement à l’entrepreneuriat collectif des jeunes Autochtones: Un récit d’expérience d’autochtonisation
Cet article s’intéresse à la manière de ré-« concilier » l’appui à l’entrepreneuriat en contexte autochtone à partir de l’étude du cas de StartUp Nations, un programme d’accompagnement en entrepreneuriat collectif pour les jeunes des Premières Nations au Québec. Basé sur une approche qualitative décoloniale permettant la mise en valeur de points de vue des personnes selon leur propre cadre culturel, cet article montre comment l’approche pédagogiq…
Famille et écocitoyenneté
Cadre de la recherche : Bien que la famille soit généralement le premier lieu de socialisation, d’apprentissage et de transmission des valeurs, des pratiques et des cultures, l’apprentissage de l’écocitoyenneté dans le cadre familial reste peu exploré dans la recherche actuelle. Objectifs : Cet article introductif, comme les articles du dossier, explorent sous divers angles les relations entre la famille et l’écocitoyenneté. Méthodologie : Cet ar…
Family and Eco-citizenship
Research framework: Although the family is typically the place where socialization and learning begin, and where values, practices and cultures are handed down, the ways in which eco-citizenship is taught within the family remain underexplored in current research.Objectives: This introductory article, along with the other articles in this special issue, explores various aspects of the relationship between family and eco-citizenship.Methodology: T…
We are slowly reclaiming for ourselves: The generative possibilities of Indigenous youth voices
Indigenous youth are actors of change in their communities, providing new perspectives on decolonization, unity, and cultural resurgence within the spaces they occupy. In this article, we report on a collaborative study that examined the many layers of Indigenous youth voices. With an organization that represents First Nations youth in Quebec, we conducted an Indigenous mixed methods study combining key informant interviews, a survey, and online …
The Transformative Potential of Human Rights Education for Youth Engagement in the Community
This article examines the potential of human rights education ( hre ) for youth engagement in promoting human rights and children’s rights for diversity and inclusion. The retrospective study of Speaking Rights , a programme implemented by a community-based organisation for over a decade across Canada, presents the outreach, outcome and approach of youth-led community action projects ( cap s). The accessible, practical, relational and reflective …
Holly Doel-Mackaway, Indigenous Children’s Right to Participate in Law and Policy Development
Le comité Witcihitisotan (entraide) par et pour les familles d’adolescents autochtones en ville
Cet article présente le processus et les apports du comité Witcihitisotan (entraide, en atikamekw), mis en oeuvre par des parents d’adolescents dans un Centre d’amitié autochtone au Québec. À ce jour, les formes de soutien adéquates pour les familles d’adolescents autochtones demeurent sous-documentées, ce qui représente une lacune, considérant les ruptures et transitions particulières vécues par les jeunes autochtones en milieu urbain. L’analyse…
Repenser le soutien des transitions scolaires pour les jeunes Autochtones en milieu urbain
Cet article présente les résultats d’une recherche collaborative ayant comme objectif la compréhension des transitions scolaires des élèves autochtones au primaire et au secondaire en milieu urbain. Au total, 117 personnes, soit 29 jeunes d’âge primaire et secondaire, 52 parents, 21 membres du personnel de Centres d’amitié autochtones et 15 intervenantes et intervenants scolaires ont participé à des entrevues ou à des groupes de discussion dans c…
Vers l’autochtonisation: Pratiques Éducatives Inspirantes À L’ère De La Réconciliation
Vers l'autochtonisation : pratiques éducatives inspirantes à l'ère de la réconciliation. Un article de la revue Éducation et francophonie (Vers l'autochtonisation : pratiques éducatives inspirantes à l'ère de la réconciliation) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Le point de vue de jeunes autochtones en milieu urbain sur leur parcours scolaire
Dans cet article, nous explorons le cheminement scolaire et les sources de soutien de jeunes atikamekw vivant en milieu urbain et fréquentant des écoles publiques. Des entrevues menées dans le contexte d’une recherche-action mettent en lumière des parcours scolaires non linéaires, caractérisés par de multiples transitions scolaires étant donné la mobilité entre la communauté et la ville des familles autochtones. L’étude démontre que le milieu sco…
Introduction to Special Issue
This special issue aims to explore Canadian pedagogical and curricular practices in child and youth care and youth work preservice education with an emphasis on empirical and applied studies that centre students’ perspectives of learning. The issue includes a theoretical reflection and empirical studies with students, educators, and practitioners from a range of postsecondary programs in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. The empiric…
Innovation in a Capstone Course in Youth Work
Capstone courses often focus on applied learning, typically practicum experiences such as internships. However, students do not always benefit as much as they could from their internships because teaching and learning resources are not used optimally. This paper explores the use of project-based learning in a capstone course of the Graduate Diploma in Youth Work program at Concordia University that includes an in-class seminar and an internship i…
Moving Toward Indigenous-Centred Perinatal Care in Urban Quebec
This article explores Abinodjic, an initiative of the Native Friendship Centre in Val-d’Or, Quebec, Canada, which aims to move toward Indigenous-centred perinatal care for Indigenous mothers and families. Drawing on the findings of a three-year collaborative developmental evaluation, this article describes the emergence and relevance of a model of perinatal care in which Mino Pimatisi8in (a wholistic view of well-being) is the overarching goal, a…
Tana’ Bawang (homeland): Cultural safety and the Kelabit land struggle in Borneo
This article explores the significance of cultural safety in view of the struggle over ancestral domain and modernity for Kelabit youth and elders in the state of Sarawak in Borneo, Malaysia. Our participatory case study points to the challenges to cultural safety caused by the external pressures of modernization and competing knowledge systems from downriver that are breaking down the leadership and decision-making processes to protect the land.…
The nexus of war, resettlement, and education: War-affected youth’s perspectives and responses to the Quebec education system
Full Issue
This article examines the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan's launch of a broad-based, multilayered strategy to promote youth leadership in the region, and showcases what can be accomplished when foundations invest in such strategies. In partnership with the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Dorothy A. Johnson
Immigrant children promoting environmental care: Enhancing learning, agency and integration through culturally-responsive environmental education
This paper examines the potential of culturally-responsive environmental education to engage immigrant early adolescents. Our study suggests that environmental involvement can become a means and an end for children to bridge their school and home in agential ways. Drawing from a multi-phase study involving focus groups with children, parents, and teachers from three culturally-diverse schools in Montreal, as well as a green action research projec…
Trajectories of violence and survival: Turnings and adaptations in the lives of two war-affected youth living in Canada
Au-delà de l'accréditation: Changement et continuité au sein des « villes amies des enfants » du Québec
Quels changements suscite l'accréditation Ville amie des enfants dans les politiques locales et dans les représentations que celles-ci véhiculent de l'enfance ? Cette question est au coeur de l'analyse d'un programme québécois créé en 2009, qui prend appui sur une démarche de recherche-action (2011-2013) dans deux villes accréditées, complétée par des entretiens semi-dirigés auprès d'employés de huit autres municipalités accréditées. Changements …
War-affected children's approach to resettlement: Implications for child and family services
In Canada, the resettlement of thousands of war-affected children every year poses new challenges to child and family services. Since young people arrive from multiple contexts either alone or accompanied by family or caregiver(s), after having endured significant trauma, stress, and adversity, conventional approaches to service delivery are seldom adequate. Drawing on anthropology of childhood literature, this paper calls for increased inclusion…
Immigrant children promoting environmental care: Enhancing learning, agency and integration through culturally-responsive environmental education
This paper examines the potential of culturally-responsive environmental education to engage immigrant early adolescents. Our study suggests that environmental involvement can become a means and an end for children to bridge their school and home in agential ways. Drawing from a multi-phase study involving focus groups with children, parents, and teachers from three culturally-diverse schools in Montreal, as well as a green action research projec…
The nexus of war, resettlement, and education: War-affected youth’s perspectives and responses to the Quebec education system
Teachers' perspectives on environmental education in multicultural contexts: Towards culturally-responsive environmental education
Trajectories of violence and survival: Turnings and adaptations in the lives of two war-affected youth living in Canada
Towards a rights-based approach to youth programs: Duty-bearers' perspectives
Youth-Led Decision Making in Community Development Grants
This study examines youth-led decision making (YLDM) among groups of youth who are providers or recipients of community development grants. Focus groups, interviews, and participant observation with 14- to 20-year-olds and supporting adults showed youth have a preference for consensus-based decisions. Youth used due process to reach decisions while valuing differing viewpoints. Adults created appropriate spaces and guided without controlling. You…
Partnership between Children and Adults: The experience of the International Children’s Conference on the Environment
This article discusses the potential and dilemmas of children's participation in large-scale international events. It focuses on the experience of the International Children's Conference on the Environment (ICCE), which brought together 400 children aged 10-12 from 60 countries around the world. 'Partnerships' between children, children and adults, and children and institutions during the planning of the event serve as a focal point for the analy…
Taking a stance: Child agency across the dimensions of early adolescents' environmental involvement
This article examines the nature of early adolescents' environmental involvement based on a study with 10–13‐year‐olds. Drawing from literal and metaphorical interviews, a visual survey and visual maps, the study points to the dimensions of environmental involvement: connectedness, engagement with the environment, questioning, belief in capacity, taking a stance and strategic action. Children's agency runs across the dimensions, as children inten…
War-affected children's approach to resettlement: Implications for child and family services
In Canada, the resettlement of thousands of war-affected children every year poses new challenges to child and family services. Since young people arrive from multiple contexts either alone or accompanied by family or caregiver(s), after having endured significant trauma, stress, and adversity, conventional approaches to service delivery are seldom adequate. Drawing on anthropology of childhood literature, this paper calls for increased inclusion…
Environmental education action research with immigrant children in schools: Space, audience and influence
This article considers environmental projects as means for engaging elementary school-aged immigrant children in their community. Based on an environmental research project with children aged 9–12 involved in their school’s Green Committee (GC), we identify multiple components for enabling meaningful children’s participation. Space was essential in creating a context for children to discover and express their voice. The combination of capacity-bu…
We are slowly reclaiming for ourselves: The generative possibilities of Indigenous youth voices
Indigenous youth are actors of change in their communities, providing new perspectives on decolonization, unity, and cultural resurgence within the spaces they occupy. In this article, we report on a collaborative study that examined the many layers of Indigenous youth voices. With an organization that represents First Nations youth in Quebec, we conducted an Indigenous mixed methods study combining key informant interviews, a survey, and online …
Vers l’autochtonisation: Pratiques Éducatives Inspirantes À L’ère De La Réconciliation
Vers l'autochtonisation : pratiques éducatives inspirantes à l'ère de la réconciliation. Un article de la revue Éducation et francophonie (Vers l'autochtonisation : pratiques éducatives inspirantes à l'ère de la réconciliation) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Researching Violence with Conflict-Affected Young People: Context and Process
Women as generators of children's rights. The story of promoting indigenous children's rights in Venezuela
Women as generators of children's rights. The story of promoting indigenous children's rights in Venezuela
Partnership between Children and Adults: The experience of the International Children’s Conference on the Environment
This article discusses the potential and dilemmas of children's participation in large-scale international events. It focuses on the experience of the International Children's Conference on the Environment (ICCE), which brought together 400 children aged 10-12 from 60 countries around the world. 'Partnerships' between children, children and adults, and children and institutions during the planning of the event serve as a focal point for the analy…
Taking a stance: Child agency across the dimensions of early adolescents' environmental involvement
This article examines the nature of early adolescents' environmental involvement based on a study with 10–13‐year‐olds. Drawing from literal and metaphorical interviews, a visual survey and visual maps, the study points to the dimensions of environmental involvement: connectedness, engagement with the environment, questioning, belief in capacity, taking a stance and strategic action. Children's agency runs across the dimensions, as children inten…
The Art of the Nudge: Five Practices for Developmental Evaluators
This article focuses on developmental evaluation, based on an action research study involving a group of developmental evaluators in a three-year comprehensive community initiative on youth and community change. The study presents five practices found central to the art of the nudge: (a) practicing servant leadership, (b) sensing program energy, (c) supporting common spaces, (d) untying knots iteratively, and (e) paying attention to structure. Th…
Researching Violence with Conflict-Affected Young People: Context and Process
Teachers' perspectives on environmental education in multicultural contexts: Towards culturally-responsive environmental education
The Transformative Power of Youth Grants: Sparks and Ripples of Change Affecting Marginalised Youth and their Communities
This study, based on research into a youth empowerment initiative in C anada, examines the transformational power of youth grants for marginalised youth and their communities. The positive changes on individual youth included increased confidence and skills, as well as strengthened social interactions between youth, and involved adults and organisations. To leverage grant impact, we identify the critical role of creating accountability at multipl…
Towards a rights-based approach to youth programs: Duty-bearers' perspectives
Environmental education action research with immigrant children in schools: Space, audience and influence
This article considers environmental projects as means for engaging elementary school-aged immigrant children in their community. Based on an environmental research project with children aged 9–12 involved in their school’s Green Committee (GC), we identify multiple components for enabling meaningful children’s participation. Space was essential in creating a context for children to discover and express their voice. The combination of capacity-bu…
Youth-Led Decision Making in Community Development Grants
This study examines youth-led decision making (YLDM) among groups of youth who are providers or recipients of community development grants. Focus groups, interviews, and participant observation with 14- to 20-year-olds and supporting adults showed youth have a preference for consensus-based decisions. Youth used due process to reach decisions while valuing differing viewpoints. Adults created appropriate spaces and guided without controlling. You…
War-affected children's approach to resettlement: Implications for child and family services
In Canada, the resettlement of thousands of war-affected children every year poses new challenges to child and family services. Since young people arrive from multiple contexts either alone or accompanied by family or caregiver(s), after having endured significant trauma, stress, and adversity, conventional approaches to service delivery are seldom adequate. Drawing on anthropology of childhood literature, this paper calls for increased inclusion…
Full Issue
This article examines the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan's launch of a broad-based, multilayered strategy to promote youth leadership in the region, and showcases what can be accomplished when foundations invest in such strategies. In partnership with the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Dorothy A. Johnson
Immigrant children promoting environmental care: Enhancing learning, agency and integration through culturally-responsive environmental education
This paper examines the potential of culturally-responsive environmental education to engage immigrant early adolescents. Our study suggests that environmental involvement can become a means and an end for children to bridge their school and home in agential ways. Drawing from a multi-phase study involving focus groups with children, parents, and teachers from three culturally-diverse schools in Montreal, as well as a green action research projec…
Trajectories of violence and survival: Turnings and adaptations in the lives of two war-affected youth living in Canada
Au-delà de l'accréditation: Changement et continuité au sein des « villes amies des enfants » du Québec
Quels changements suscite l'accréditation Ville amie des enfants dans les politiques locales et dans les représentations que celles-ci véhiculent de l'enfance ? Cette question est au coeur de l'analyse d'un programme québécois créé en 2009, qui prend appui sur une démarche de recherche-action (2011-2013) dans deux villes accréditées, complétée par des entretiens semi-dirigés auprès d'employés de huit autres municipalités accréditées. Changements …
Tana’ Bawang (homeland): Cultural safety and the Kelabit land struggle in Borneo
This article explores the significance of cultural safety in view of the struggle over ancestral domain and modernity for Kelabit youth and elders in the state of Sarawak in Borneo, Malaysia. Our participatory case study points to the challenges to cultural safety caused by the external pressures of modernization and competing knowledge systems from downriver that are breaking down the leadership and decision-making processes to protect the land.…
The nexus of war, resettlement, and education: War-affected youth’s perspectives and responses to the Quebec education system
Introduction to Special Issue
This special issue aims to explore Canadian pedagogical and curricular practices in child and youth care and youth work preservice education with an emphasis on empirical and applied studies that centre students’ perspectives of learning. The issue includes a theoretical reflection and empirical studies with students, educators, and practitioners from a range of postsecondary programs in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. The empiric…
Innovation in a Capstone Course in Youth Work
Capstone courses often focus on applied learning, typically practicum experiences such as internships. However, students do not always benefit as much as they could from their internships because teaching and learning resources are not used optimally. This paper explores the use of project-based learning in a capstone course of the Graduate Diploma in Youth Work program at Concordia University that includes an in-class seminar and an internship i…
Moving Toward Indigenous-Centred Perinatal Care in Urban Quebec
This article explores Abinodjic, an initiative of the Native Friendship Centre in Val-d’Or, Quebec, Canada, which aims to move toward Indigenous-centred perinatal care for Indigenous mothers and families. Drawing on the findings of a three-year collaborative developmental evaluation, this article describes the emergence and relevance of a model of perinatal care in which Mino Pimatisi8in (a wholistic view of well-being) is the overarching goal, a…
Le comité Witcihitisotan (entraide) par et pour les familles d’adolescents autochtones en ville
Cet article présente le processus et les apports du comité Witcihitisotan (entraide, en atikamekw), mis en oeuvre par des parents d’adolescents dans un Centre d’amitié autochtone au Québec. À ce jour, les formes de soutien adéquates pour les familles d’adolescents autochtones demeurent sous-documentées, ce qui représente une lacune, considérant les ruptures et transitions particulières vécues par les jeunes autochtones en milieu urbain. L’analyse…
Repenser le soutien des transitions scolaires pour les jeunes Autochtones en milieu urbain
Cet article présente les résultats d’une recherche collaborative ayant comme objectif la compréhension des transitions scolaires des élèves autochtones au primaire et au secondaire en milieu urbain. Au total, 117 personnes, soit 29 jeunes d’âge primaire et secondaire, 52 parents, 21 membres du personnel de Centres d’amitié autochtones et 15 intervenantes et intervenants scolaires ont participé à des entrevues ou à des groupes de discussion dans c…
Vers l’autochtonisation: Pratiques Éducatives Inspirantes À L’ère De La Réconciliation
Vers l'autochtonisation : pratiques éducatives inspirantes à l'ère de la réconciliation. Un article de la revue Éducation et francophonie (Vers l'autochtonisation : pratiques éducatives inspirantes à l'ère de la réconciliation) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Le point de vue de jeunes autochtones en milieu urbain sur leur parcours scolaire
Dans cet article, nous explorons le cheminement scolaire et les sources de soutien de jeunes atikamekw vivant en milieu urbain et fréquentant des écoles publiques. Des entrevues menées dans le contexte d’une recherche-action mettent en lumière des parcours scolaires non linéaires, caractérisés par de multiples transitions scolaires étant donné la mobilité entre la communauté et la ville des familles autochtones. L’étude démontre que le milieu sco…
The Transformative Potential of Human Rights Education for Youth Engagement in the Community
This article examines the potential of human rights education ( hre ) for youth engagement in promoting human rights and children’s rights for diversity and inclusion. The retrospective study of Speaking Rights , a programme implemented by a community-based organisation for over a decade across Canada, presents the outreach, outcome and approach of youth-led community action projects ( cap s). The accessible, practical, relational and reflective …
Political science (29 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Public relations (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Humanities (7 works) · Indigenous (7 works)