EDITORIAL: In a World of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: The Case Against Intervention-Focused Research

Editorial. The authors consider the manifestation of us and them narratives in research on children and youth and on intervention research in child and youth services. They say much of the research is damage-focused despite the best intentions. They mention damaged-centered research written by scholar Eve Tuck in 2009 in the Harvard Educational Review. The authors add that intervention-based research is blind to the daily life of young people within their self-formed communities