Tuning into CYC

Tuning into Child and Youth Care: An Arts-Based Audio-Drama Inquiry with Child and Youth Care Practitioners who have lived in Residential Care is a PhD study out of the University of Victoria’s school of Child and Youth Care exploring the experiences of Child and Youth Care practitioners who have lived in residential placements.

A Sonic Dissertation

Scroll below to hear the audio-dramas ReFiled & Hiring Care or listen to ReFiled on Apple, Spotify or Google Podcasts.

Tuning Into CYC was created, recorded, edited, and produced across many Indigenous territories including the traditional lands of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Anishinaabe, the six Nations of the Haudenosaunee, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the TlaAmin Nation. Actors recorded from diverse territories including the ancestral home of the Munsee Lenape and the Canarsie peoples. The Wecksquaesgeek, the Mohawk, and Algonquin First Nations, the Ojibway/Chippewa peoples, as well as the Beothuk and Mi’kmaq.

Audio Drama - ReFiled

ReFiled

What is it like to be removed from your family of origin and then go to work for the same system that raised you?

Audio Drama - Hiring Care

Hiring Care

What can seven CYC practitioners with lived experience in the system teach us about care?

About

Tuning into Child and Youth Care: An Audio-Drama Inquiry with Child and Youth Care Practitioners who have lived in Residential Care is a doctoral research project within the University of Victoria’s school of Child and Youth Care. The study explores the experiences of Canadian Child and Youth Care practitioners who have lived in residential placements.

Child and Youth Care (CYC) is a practice-based field that supports children, youth, families, and communities through a “developmental-ecological perspective [which] emphasizes the interaction between persons and the physical and social environments, including cultural and political settings.” (naccw.org.za). Child and Youth Care practitioners from care (CYCPfC) are people who have formal education in CYC and a history of residential placement, such as group homes, foster homes, semi-independent living, or related institutional arrangements.

Audio drama inquiry is an emerging ethically engaged, community responsive, and aesthetically enticing form of research which exemplifies a methodical and theoretically-grounded approach to public knowledge generation, situates itself within existing scholarship, advances arguments through making knowledge claims, and meets well-established ethical standards and institutional regulations for conducting human research. Tuning into CYC, draws on research-based and applied theatre, aesthetic theory, care ethics, and Mad studies to create this sonically dynamic audio drama inquiry.

For more information about Child and Youth Care, the theoretical & methodological approaches to this inquiry, and other writing related to this project, please visit publications below.

The purpose of Tuning into CYC is to explore the experiences of CYCPfC leading to an enhanced understanding of:

  1. What having Child and Youth Care practitioners from care does for, and to, the field of CYC.
  2. What Child and Youth Care does to CYCPs from care, from the perspective of those who come from care.
  3. If there is such a thing as a Child and Youth Care practice-from-care.
Publications

Publications related to Tuning into Child and Youth Care: An Audio-Drama Inquiry with Child and Youth Care Practitioners who have lived in Residential Care.

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