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School of Social Work
105 Peters Hall
1404 Gortner Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55108
Voice: 612-625-1220

Michael Baizerman

Baizerman

Director, Youth Studies

Areas of Interest

Socio-Cultural & Geographic Models of Youth Development, Youth Involvement Models, Youth Work, Youth Policy,

Curriculum and Instruction, School of Social Work, Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Rm 105 PetersH
1404 Gortner Ave
St Paul, MN 55108

Tel: 612-624-4912


Degrees

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, M.S., Columbia University, M.S., University of Pittsburgh

Current Research

Youth involvement in civic issues
Philosophical and human sciences understandings of the idea of "youth," how it is represented, theorized and lived.

Publications

  1. Baizerman, M., Baldwin, C., Magnuson, D. & Stringer, A. (2003). Adolescent or youth? Youthwork practice and human development ideology, Journal of Child & Youth Care Work, 18 , 60-70.

  2. Baizerman, M., Lundgren, K. & Magnuson, D. (2003). Challenges to discernment in religious education, Religion and Education, 30 (2), 45-61.

  3. Baizerman, M. (2000). Youth: Fact or fiction?. Paper presented and available on-line from Youth Council Northern Ireland/University of Ulster, Jordanstown, September, 2000.

  4. Baizerman, M. & Hildreth, R., (2000). Public achievement: An evaluation. School of Social Work and Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul and Minneapolis, June, 2000.

  5. Baizerman, M., (2000). Young people and museums: Visitor, student, citizen (Theory), Irish Museum Journal 10, 60-63.

  6. Baizerman, M. (1999). Public Achievement/Northern Ireland. A report on implementation, Belfast: Public Achievement.

  7. Baizerman, M. (1999). It's only human nature: Revisiting the denaturalization of adolescence, Child and Youth Care Forum, 28(6), 437-447.

  8. Baizerman, M. (1997). The call to responsible selfhood: The vocational in the lives of youth. Final Report to the Lilly Endowment, Project on Youth and Vocation. St. Paul, Minnesota (MS).