Advocacy is an integral part of child and youth care workers’ roles and a significant component of child and youth care politicized praxis and radical youth work. Drawing from the qualitative data of a mixed-methods study conducted in 2019 at a Canadian metropolitan university, this study seeks to unpack how the pedagogy of the lightning talk can foster advocacy skills to effectively and spontaneously speak out with and on behalf of children, youth, and families in everyday practice when an unforeseen systemic challenge or barrier arises. A purposive sample of 70 undergraduate students was recruited in two child and youth care courses, both of which required students to present a lightning talk. Participants completed an online questionnaire with closed-ended and open-ended questions in order to share their perspectives of the pedagogy of the lightning talk. The findings show that the lightning talk fosters twenty-first century and metacognitive skills and, most importantly, advocacy skills.

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准备宣传

宣传是儿童和青年保育工作者角色不可或缺的一部分，也是儿童和青年保育政治化实践和激进青年工作的重要组成部分。根据2019年在加拿大城市大学进行的混合方法研究的定性数据，本研究旨在探讨闪电谈话的教学法如何培养倡导技能，以有效地，自发地与儿童，青年和代表他们说话，以及在日常实践中遇到无法预料的系统性挑战或障碍的家庭。在两个儿童和青少年护理课程中招募了70名本科生的有针对性的样本，这两个课程都要求学生进行闪电演讲。参与者完成了一个在线问卷，其中包含不限成员名额和不限成员名额的问题，以便分享他们对闪电演讲的教学法的看法。研究结果表明，闪电般的谈话培养了二十一世纪的元认知技能，最重要的是，倡导技能。