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.
Dr. Kate Tilleczek is the Canada Research Chair in Child/Youth Cultures and Transitions, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Prince Edward Island, and a Research Scientist at the Community Health Systems Group at the Hospital for Sick Children. She is a former school teacher and is a sociologist who has been studying and teaching the social and cultural realities and experiences of childhood and youth for 20 years. This program of research demonstrates a commitment to work with and for young people across many cultures and contexts.
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Recent Representative publications:
Tilleczek, K. (2011, October). Youth, schools and marginalization: Building rooms of ones’ own? Invited Keynote talk at Atlantic Educators Conference. Univerist́e 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.
Tilleczek, K., Furlong, A., & Ferguson, B. (2010). Marginalized youth in contemporary educational contexts: A tranquil invitation to a rebellious celebration? Education Canada. 50(5), 6-10.
Tilleczek, K. ( Growing up in Canadian divides: Political and educational dimensions of childhood marginalization. Paper presented at the International Child/Youth Research Network Research Conference, Growing Up in Divided Societies. Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland. June 10th-11th, 2010.
