What Is Youth Work?

Informationen zum Autor Janet Batsleer is Principal Lecturer and Head of Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University. Bernard Davies has been a teacher, youth worker, youth officer and tutor on courses for teachers, social workers and youth workers and is now an independent consultant focusing on youth work and youth policies. He is visiting professor at Leicester De Montfort University and a trustee of the Muslim Youth Work Foundation and 42nd Street, a young people’s mental health resource in Manchester. His publications include a three-volume History of the Youth Service in England and Youth work: A manifesto for the times. Klappentext With the proposed development of the 'youth professional' and the consolidation of graduate professional qualifications, this is an important time for youth work. This book sets out the current state of debate about youth work for those considering, or about to embark on, a degree course. Contemporary debates in youth work are explored, and help to give students a sense of its history and its future contribution. By combining the experience of its editors and the contemporaneous experience of the voices of contributors, this book provides an excellent introduction to work as a youth worker in the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung A highly accessible and up to the minute introduction to youth work for new students and those considering entering the profession Inhaltsverzeichnis What do we mean by youth work? Policy analysis: a first and vital skill of practice Participation Youth work as border pedagogy Detached youth work Creativity and partnership Youth work practice within integrated youth support services Targeting for youth workers Developing global literacy and competence in youth work Youth work with girls: a feminist perspective Anti-racism to community cohesion Youth work and the surveillance state Youth work prospects: back to the future? ...

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• Authors: Janet Batsleer, Janet (Manchester Metropolitan Universit Batsleer, Janet Davies Batsleer, Janet R. Batsleer, Janet R. Davies Batsleer
• Assisted by: Janet Batsleer (Editor), Janet R. Batsleer (Editor), Batsleer Janet (Editor), Bernard Davies (Editor), Davies Bernard (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.2010
• EAN: 9781844454662
• ISBN: 978-1-84445-466-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Empowering Youth and Community Work Practice Series; Empowering Youth and Community Work Practiceylm Series; Empowering Youth and Community; Empowering Youth and Community Work Practiceylm Series; Empowering Youth and Community; Empowering Youth and Community Work PracticeýLM Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, Social Work, Textbook, coursework