CYC 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neoliberalism, Ragged School, John Pounds

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 347
• Professor: Treisha Hylton

Document Summary

Australia"s youth are 1 of the world"s most vulnerable (highest rate of suicide) Danger in viewing youth as just a problem , services will reflect our ideologies, (for example treatment of indigenous youth in. Changes with respect to the dominant discourse of economic and liberalism, and managerialism (policies suggest a management of youth rather than, working with or assisting) Lack of research, child and youth practitioners , distinct from other professionals as they tend be connected with children, youth and families, (twofold) issues. Programs lack historical context of colonization which is largely why they have failed the. Ragged school movement (the idea of ragged schools was developed by john pounds, a portsmouth shoemaker. In 1818 pounds began teaching poor children without charging fees) The rescue period, contrast to the ragged school movements, in some cases children were sent to their colonies for better life, family was viewed contaminating influence large orphans were introduced.