A Moral Praxis of Child and Youth Care Work

Authors

  • Doug Magnuson University of Northern Iowa
  • Michael Baizerman University of Minnesota
  • Allison Stringer University of Northern Iowa

Abstract

The momentum for work with youth, if not its actual practice, is driven by scientific epistemologies of addictive, linear, and chronological views of moral development. But an alternative, from the point of view of an existential phenomenology of the "temporal self," suggests a moral youthwork praxis guided by (a) distinguishing between youth as agents rather than things, (b) promoting the primacy of temporal agency rather than linear time, and (c) treating persons as ends rather than means. From this point of view youthwork is a moral "praxis."

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Published

2001-03-01

How to Cite

Magnuson, D. ., Baizerman, M., & Stringer, A. . (2001). A Moral Praxis of Child and Youth Care Work. Journal of Child and Youth Care Work, 15, 302–312. Retrieved from http://acycpjournal.pitt.edu/ojs/jcycw/article/view/315

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Section

Reflections of the Future of the Field

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