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Kate Tilleczek

Dr. Kate Tilleczek has been studying the social and cultural contexts of children and youth for twenty years. Kate is interested in the intersections of communities, families, schools, mass media, and health care settings as they support or negate the well-being of modern young people. She studies the ways in which modern societies can marginalize their young and how such process are socially organized in culturally nested systems. Kate is also interested in describing how young people actively negotiate their pathways into adulthood. Using new approaches to child and youth research which are both developmentally-attuned and embedded in the arts, Kate attempts to provide nuanced examinations of the daily lives and struggles of the youngest members of modern society. 

 

 

Degrees: 

BA (Honours), BEd, MA, PhD

Position: 
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Child/Youth Cultures and Transitions)
Department: 
Education, Sociology/Anthropology
Faculty: 
Education and Arts (Sociology/Anthropology)
Phone: 
(902) 620-5127
Email: 
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Research Interests: 
  • Youth studies (Sociology of youth, youth cultures)
  • Childhood studies (Sociology of children, childhood cultures)
  • Sociology of education (critiques of public education)
  • Intersections of poverty, social class, mental health, culture, identities and education)
  • Marginalization and engagement of youth
  • Transitions of children and youth
  • Qualitative methods
  • Social theory
Citations: 

Tilleczek, K. (2011, October). Youth, schools and marginalization: Building rooms of ones’ own? Invited Keynote talk at Atlantic Educators Conference. Universite de Monton, Moncton, New Brunswick, October 27-29.

Tilleczek, K. (2011). Adjusting the rear view mirror: An examination of youth driving culture. Youth and Society, 43 (2), 757-778.

Tilleczek, K, Ferguson, B., Roth Edney, D. Rummens, J.A., Boydell, K. & Mueller, M. (2011). A contemporary study with early school leavers: Pathways and social processes of leaving high school. Canadian Journal of Family and Youth.3(1), 1-39

Tilleczek, K. (with M. Ferguson and V. Campbell) (2011). Youth transitions through school: Intersections of poverty, mental health and engagement. Policy paper prepared for the Ontario Ministry of Child and Youth Services for A Youth Policy Framework. Toronto, Ontario.

Tilleczek, K. (2010). Approaching youth studies: Being, becoming and belonging.   Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Current Collaborators (non-UPEI): 

 Dr. John Smyth
Research Professor of Education
& Research Theme Leader
Centre for Disadvantage and Inequality in Education and Health
School of Education
Victoria, Australia

Dr. Bruce Ferguson

Director of Community Health Systems Group

Hospital for Sick Children

Toronto, Canada

 

Dr. Andy Furlong

University of Glasgow

Scotland, UK

 

Dr. Katherine Boydell

Director of Qualitative Inquiry

Senior Research Scientist

Hospital for Sick Children

Toronto, Canada

 

Dr. Simon Laflamme

Director PhD in Human Studies

Professor of Sociology

Laurentian University

Sudbury, Canada