The Youthwork Paradox
A Case for Studying the Complexity of Community-Based Youth Work in Education Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9734816 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bianca J Baldridge (0000-0002-6386-8574, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 618-625 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x20937300 |
| OpenAlex | W3039799894 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 47 |
Community-based youth work, through which young people are engaged in community-based educational spaces (CBES; e.g., after-school programs, out-of-school time settings, youth organizations, etc.), is celebrated for supporting youth academically, socially, culturally, and politically. However, when these spaces receive attention, their social and political complexity is often overlooked. Studying the complexity of community-based youth work in education requires interrogating the multiple systems of oppression that impact young people’s lives. It also demands examination of the sociopolitical context of youth work, including how race logics and economic pressures inform the construction of CBES and how these forces surface and intersect with market logics and educational policy reform. Building on existing scholarship on community-based youth work and my current research, I present the youthwork paradox, a framework that captures the complexity of the field and its relationship to structural forces and larger systems of oppression. I detail how this paradox does not always lead to dichotomous discourses; rather, CBES can encompass many logics at once. To illuminate the usefulness of this framework for deeper theorizing of community-based youth work, I ground this concept in an empirical case focused on Black youth workers
Context (archaeology · Oppression · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Work (physics · Youth studies · Youth work · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Gender Studies · Parental Involvement in Education · Youth Development and Social Support
Youth work as heart work in turbulent times
Creating Everyday Spaces for Early Language and Literacy Learning
Getting Black Men to the Blackboard
“You Think About Your Identity a Lot”
The Wretched of the Research
Critiquing Empire Through Desirability
“Walking the Talk”
Rehearsing Solidarity
Infrastructural injustices in community‐driven afterschool STEAM
The Ecology of US Education Nonprofits
Lessons learned from a gender-specific educational programme supporting young women with experience of domestic abuse
Of boundaries and borders
Vocational labour and resistance in Flemish youth work
What do you think youth workers do? A comparative case study of library and afterschool workers
Inexhaustible education
Abrupt Exits from the Field
Straddling discourses of transformation and status quo
Exploring Program Process at Movimiento La Libertad
Latinx Youth as Linguistic Experts
It’s a great place to find where you belong’
Stop the monster, build the marvel’
Everyday epistemic refusals
Cultural humility in youth work
Anti-Racism Education and Training for Adult Mentors Who Work With Bipoc Adolescents
Embers, and fragments’
Trying to be everything else”
The invisible support of community schools in a highly unequal education system
Freedom dreaming in carceral spaces
Intersectional Learning
Lost at sea
Out-of-School Time Programs in the United States in an Era of Racial Reckoning
Defending the Color Line
Complex Relationships
Get “With It”
Maybe You Should Try It This Way Instead”
Navigating white space
A Different Energy
The Terms of Inclusion
Complicating College Access
Resisting exclusion
Reclaiming Community
After-School Centers and Youth Development
Humanizing Research
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality
My Brother as “Problem”
Youth Organizing as a Developmental Context for African American and Latino Adolescents
From assets to agents of change
Toward a New Understanding of Community-Based Education
Positive Youth Development
The Organization of Informal Learning
An Age Penalty in Racial Preferences
Knocking the Hustle
The Self-Help Myth
Understanding Youth Development From the Practitioner's Point of View
Quality of Afterschool Activities and Relative Change in Adolescent Functioning Over Two Years
Role models without guarantees
Despite the Best Intentions
Social and Identity Development in an After-School Program
Youth work, performativity and the new youth impact agenda
Thinking Ourselves to Liberation
After-School Programs
Youth as People
Neoliberal Education Restructuring
Relocating the Deficit
Despite the Odds”
Developing a Sociocritical Literacy in the Third Space
Why Afterschool Matters
A Theory of Racialized Organizations
Lifting Off the Ground to Return Anew
Black Youth Activism and the Role of Critical Social Capital in Black Community Organizations
Interweaving Youth Development, Community Development, and Social Change Through Youth Organizing
Becoming a Hurdler
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |