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Bianca J. Baldridge

Bianca J. Baldridge

Associate Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education, scholar of community-based education and critical youth work practice.

Aug 10, 2026

67:45
Explain deficit framing versus strength-based approach.
67:51
Yeah.
67:52
So actually, in thinking about what you just mentioned around how and why these programs exist, right, we kind of have to think about the ways that young people, right, the category of a young person of youth, the way that they are framed in our society.
68:06
And we think about teenagers.
68:08
We think about preteens.
68:09
There's all these narratives around like how, quote unquote, bad they might be or like troublemakers.
68:15
I remember growing up and my mother had a refrigerator magnet that said, you don't scare me.

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82:02
How can the American education system be reconstituted to fulfill the promise of constructing a new world? Oh,

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