Guided by her research with youth workers across the United States, Dr. Bianca J. Baldridge will demonstrate how youth workers teach to transgress—pushing beyond the challenges within the youth development field to co-envision possibilities in their work alongside youth. Drawing connections among the past, the present, and the future, Dr. Baldridge will show how historical efforts in communal care and education for social change are present today and serve as a powerful blueprint for youth workers.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this presentation, you will be able to:
- Identify the connections between contemporary youth work and historical efforts of community care in marginalized communities
- Encourage participants to recall and reassemble what they’ve learned from their past to support their futures as youth work professionals.
- Envision community-based education and youth work as a process of futuring and world-building toward educational and social justice for young people.