Michael Baizerman
Director of Youth
Studies
Professor
Office: 185 Peters Hall
Phone: (612) 624-4912
E-mail: mbaizerm@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 105 Peters Hall
Degrees & Institutions
Ph.D., School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, 1972
M.S., School of Social Work, Columbia University, 1965
M.S., Hyg., School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 1970
Interest Areas
Socio-Cultural & Geographic Models of Youth Development; Youth
Involvement Models; Youth Work; Youth Policy.
Current Research
Youth involvement in civic issues. Philosophical and human sciences
understandings of the idea of "youth," how it is represented, theorized
and lived.
Recent Publications
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.
Baizerman, M., Lundgren, K. & Magnuson, D. (2003). Challenges to
discernment in religious education, Religion and Education,
30 (2),
45-61.
Baizerman, M. (2000). Youth: Fact or fiction?. Paper presented and
available on-line from Youth Council Northern
Ireland/University of
Ulster, Jordanstown, September, 2000.
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.
Baizerman, M., (2000). Young people and museums: Visitor, student, citizen (Theory), Irish Museum Journal 10, 60-63.
Baizerman, M. (1999). Public Achievement/Northern Ireland. A report
on
implementation, Belfast: Public Achievement.
Baizerman, M. (1999). It's only human nature: Revisiting the
denaturalization of adolescence, Child and Youth Care Forum,
28(6),
437-447.
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).