CYC 641

Generating Knowledge in Child and Youth Care

Units: 3.0

Extends learners' understanding of methodologies used to conduct social inquiry and how decisions about methodology affect knowledge outcomes and influence policy and practice. The focus will be the interplay of epistemology, ontology and methodology and the significance of cultural context, social location and the ethics of research. Learners will deepen their understanding and creative capacities to generate knowledge and methods, and strengthen the research foundations for theory and practice in CYC.

Graduate course in the Child and Youth Care program administered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.