What is Youth Work?

A highly accessible and up to the minute introduction to youth work for new students and those considering entering the profession

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? ...

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

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?