The CYS cluster represents a collaborative and interdisciplinary research concentration aimed at deepening the understanding of young people as essential to critical processes and relationships. Research topics include: state formation, class conflict, citizenship debates, educational reform, social inclusion and exclusion, and the cultural politics of representation and identity. The cluster meshes with other interests in EDST, such as educational leadership and policy, lifelong learning, Aboriginal and Indigenous studies, and cultural studies.
The work in this cluster draws on resources across the university in addressing particularly urgent social and educational problems that concern the international community. International comparative child and youth studies are particularly important in this cluster. Given the global context for those with little social power or social capital, scholarly leadership that concerns the lives of young people is of paramount importance.
