Kate Tilleczek

York University · Faculty of Education

This paper presents data and analyses from our Planetary Health Film Lab (PHFL) and its sister project the Youth Climate Report. Qualitative data include semi-structured interviews with youth and their educators and content analysis of films produced by young people (ages 19–25) from six countries (Australia, Columbia, Ecuador, Italy, India, Canada...

This chapter provides an overview of the project Wekimün: a school with and for Indigenous youth and their communities, a six-year international, intercultural, intergenerational and transdisciplinary collaboration between the Young Lives Research Lab of Canada and the Williche communities of Chiloé archipelago of southern Chile. Developed and impl...

This chapter presents an overview of Knowing Global Youth, a youth-centred curriculum development project that engaged youth from the Global North and South (Canada and Chile) in processes of co-creating a unique intercultural curriculum that is adapted to culture, context, place and space. We discuss the results of our work with 13 youth, ten educ...

Youths’ experiences in seeking and accessing help for mental health problems can have pervasive and lasting effects on personal and interpersonal functioning. In particular, youth who experience validating experiences presumably persevere in seeking help and generally have positive treatment outcomes, whereas youth who experience invalidation are a...

This entry provides an overview of emergent ways of doing qualitative youth research. It is derived from a review of English‐language international literature and from working and publishing in the field of youth research for two decades. Research across content areas of digital media, well‐being, and education is used to exemplify important turns....

Objective Significant barriers exist for youth in obtaining mental health services. These barriers are exacerbated by growing demand, attributed partially to children and adolescents who have repeat hospital admissions. The purpose of this study was to identify demographic, socioeconomic and clinical predictors of readmission to inpatient psychiatr...

En esta presentación se describen los principales resultados de una experiencia llevada a cabo durante el desarrollo de un piloto del currículo Knowing Global Youth (KGY) con jóvenes indígenas y no indígenas en la isla de Chiloé. KGY es un currículo que se enfoca desde la ética biocultural en las visiones del mundo "global e indígena" de los jóvene...

This piece argues for a new vision of education that gears learning towards building an equitable and inclusive society in a possible future with planetary stability and well-being as the main goal. The authors call for education to include new literacies to enhance critical thinking in an information intensive age; build up socio-emotional and aff...

Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies

This piece argues for a new vision of education that gears learning towards building an equitable and inclusive society in a possible future with planetary stability and well-being as the main goal. The authors call for education to include new literacies to enhance critical thinking in an information intensive age; build up socio-emotional and aff...

The Young Lives Research Laboratory is concerned with the lives of modern youth from education to technology to mental health. Technology is ubiquitous in the day to day lives of young people in Canada but little is known about the ways in which digital media affects their mental health, especially for Indigenous youth. Research seldom engages yout...

We have much to learn from Indigenous cosmovisions, knowledge systems, and practices of wellbeing and resilience as we embark on the ever more urgent local and global transitions towards sustainable development in this desperate epoch. How do we –as non-Indigenous academics—actively and respectfully participate in the process of bringing these aspe...

Tilleczek, K. (2019). Youth have a love-hate relationship with digital tech in the age of the Anthropocene. The Conversation, Summer Edition, 2019. https://theconversation.com/youth-have-a-love-hate-relationship-with-tech-in-the-digital-age-109453

UNESCO International Bureau of Education. http://www.ibe.unesco.org/en/news/re-imagining-curriculum-indigenous-youth-their-communities-chiloe-island-chile

Cette étude vise à explorer les barrières et les facilitateurs dans l’accès aux services pour les enfants et adolescents autistes, et ce, selon la perspective de parents et celle de personnes prestataires de services. Des entrevues semi-structurées ont été effectuées auprès de huit parents et de huit responsables de services francophones du Nouveau...

Young people spend a significant amount of time with technology, particularly digital and social media. How do they experience and cope with the many influences of digital media in their lives? What are the main challenges and opportunities they navigate in living online? Youth in the Digital Age provides answers from a decidedly interdisciplinary...

We know much about the alarming trends in youth mental health; however, we know far less about the journeys that Canadian youth are taking toward better mental health. This article begins with a conceptual synthesis of the literature about the ways in which scholars are invoking the journeys of youth. We then present two examples of youth journeys...

Tilleczek, K. (2016). Voices from the margins. Educative research with, for and by youth. Education Canada. Special Issue: Youth Voice, Vol 56 (4).

This paper addresses the use of participatory videography as a way of knowing and bearing witness to the complexity of young lives in educational research. We outline the principles for engaging young people in participatory videography. Working in the framework of humanities-infused praxis with, for, and by young people, we explore the place of vi...

This paper provides a conceptual synthesis of literature that addresses intersections of mental health, poverty, and school. It is based on a research synthesis for the youth policy framework for Ontario, Stepping Stones. The paper addresses research on challenges involving income inequality, poverty, and mental health that impinge upon school, and...

Tilleczek, K., & Lezeu, K. (2014). Journeys in youth mental health. Education Canada. Special Issue: Youth Mental Health, 54(2), 12-18.

Srigley, R., & Tilleczek, K. (2014). The Republic and Apology as source texts for Rebel Without a Cause. International Political Anthropology, 7(2), 37-45.

Tilleczek, K., & Campbell, V. (2014). Narratives of youth literacy: The case of Prince Edward Island. Canadian Journal of Teacher Research. 1(1), 46-85. http://www.teacherresearch.ca/uploads/1411/canadianjournalforte75853.pdf

This paper explores the barriers in youth literacy with qualitative interviews with 22 young people and 22 youth service providers from Prince Edward Island, Canada. It then compares these perspectives with a review of literatures on youth literacy. The paper outlines a sociological framework for the study of youth literacy that makes visible the c...

This paper explores the barriers in youth literacy with qualitative interviews with 22 young people and 22 youth service providers from Prince Edward Island, Canada. It then compares these perspectives with a review of literatures on youth literacy. The paper outlines a sociological framework for the study of youth literacy that makes visible the c...

Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and community practice and policy. They cover the range and intersections of marginalization: poverty, Aboriginal culture...

This paper presents literature and findings on childhood transitions in public education. Set in the context of shifts in Canada to full day kindergarten, it makes visible the range of human relational and structural concerns that must be considered in the practice of researching and facilitating transitions for children. The paper draws upon a rev...

This paper presents a conceptual synthesis of current literatures on the ways in which digital media allow/negate reproduction and resistence in educational and social inequalities for youth. With a focus on intersections of inequalities (socioeconomic status, age, culture, ethnicity, region) and social reproduction in education, the paper provides...

This paper examines the social impacts of digital media technology on youth; its paradoxes, points of resistance and reproductive tendencies. The place of digital media in the complexity of youth transitions over time is under theorized and studied. The use of digital media is well documented such that young Canadians are now among the most wired i...

This paper provides an analysis of international literature and focus group data arising from a three-year critical ethnographic study with 795 young people, educators and parents speaking about transitions through public education in Canada. It fills fissures in qualitative and process-based sociological work on youth transitions and redresses sch...

This article provides an account and discussion of research processes used in a contemporary study of early school leaving in Ontario, Canada. The Ontario Early School Leavers Study was conducted in conversation with 193 young people who left school prior to graduating, their educators and parents. The study was informed by a review of internationa...

This concise yet thorough introduction to the sociological study of young people exposes students to the historical and mythic foundations of the discipline before looking at the cultural and educational aspects of youth today. With an exploration of methodology and sociological theories,along with interdisciplinary research evidence, the text ward...

The majority of deaths for contemporary young people are related to injuries sustained in motor vehicle accidents. Most prevention efforts targeted at addressing the issue are less than effective and do not address youth driving as a culture. This article presents findings from an ethnographic study that attempts to understand the ways in which you...

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.

This study will address the International, national and local issues and solutions pertaining to early school leaving and youth disengagement from school

This investigation describes what smoking means to adolescents, and attempts to better understand it as a rite of passage. Applying a social ontology to an often-individualized issue, interviews were conducted with 20 adolescent smokers between the ages of 13 and 19. Results show that adolescents possess detailed information about the risks of smok...

Tilleczek, K., Ferguson, B., Rummens, J.A., & Boydell, K. (2006). How do youth leave school? Current lessons from youth who know. Education Canada, 46(4), 54-57.

This book for activists and researchers on building connections between social movements and social research sets out practical ways activists can map the social relations of struggle they are engaged in and produce knowledge for more effective forms of activism for changing the world. Grounded in political activist ethnography, this work does not...

There is insufficient literature documenting the mental health experiences and needs of rural communities, and a lack of focus on children in particular. This is of concern given that up to 20% of children and youth suffer from a diagnosable mental health problem. This study examines issues of access to mental health care for children and youth in...

French and English Canadian adolescents completed a smoking expectancy questionnaire and 2 measures of current smoking status. Multiple regression revealed that beliefs about the expected time of occurrence of smoking outcomes explained unique variance in current smoking after controlling for judgments about the probability and desirability of thes...

Health in Northern Ontario is poorer than in the province of Ontario. Late childhood is the period in which adult habits and health behaviours are solidified, thus, health indicators are important to guide the development and implementation of disease prevention strategies. The Northern Ontario Child and Youth Health Report evaluated the health of...

This paper addresses the need to provide rural nurse practitioners (NPs) with the distance education that is considered vital to the upgrading of their professional skills. The method of delivering the courses is a critical aspect of their success. The authors trace and describe the innovative delivery of the Rural Ontario Nurse Practitioner Contin...

Most adolescent deaths are caused by injury sustained in traf®c crashes, and driver education does not necessarily reduce the problem. This multi-method, ethnographic study describes the logic and regulation of youth driving culture in a northern Ontario community. This included 40 hours of participant observation and a survey of 88 novice drivers....

This prospective study compared the ability of 4 smoking expectancy measures to mediate the influence of peer, parent, and current smoking on adolescents' cigarette use 3 months later. No evidence for mediation was found when expectancies were operationalized as unidimensional subjective expected utility (SEU), multidimensional SEU, or unidimension...

This prospective study compared the ability of 4 smoking expectancy measures to mediate the influence of peer, parent, and current smoking on adolescents’ cigarette use 3 months later. No evidence for mediation was found when expectancies were operationalized as unidimensional subjective expected utility (SEU), multidimensional SEU, or unidimension...

Previous research separately acknowledges two emerging trends in adolescence but neglects to integrate them. These are that many changes have occurred in the school to work transitional processes, and that there is substantial need for adolescents, especially young women, to pursue science career pathways. In this study, we link these trends and de...

Volpe, R., & Tilleczek, K. (1999). Full service schools and students at risk. Research in Ontario Secondary Schools, 5(4), 1-4.

Cigarette smoking has been identified as the single most preventable source of mortality and morbidity in the United States. Experimentation with tobacco typically begins in adolescence, and smoking during this period is one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of adult smoking status. In the present paper, we review several prominent de...