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What is youth work? / edited by Janet Batsleer and Bernard Davies. Series editors Janet Batsleer and Keith Popple.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Empowering youth and community work practicePublication details: Exeter : Learning Matters, 2010.Description: ix, 180 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781844454662 (pbk.)
  • 1844454665 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV1421 .W53 2010
Summary: With the proposed development of the youth professional and the consolidation of graduate professional qualifications, this is an important time for youth work. This text sets out the current state of debate about youth work for those considering or about to embark on a degree course.
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Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 362.7 BAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available 39002100653477
Standard Loan Thurles Library Main Collection 362.7 BAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 30026000001247

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-175) and index.

With the proposed development of the youth professional and the consolidation of graduate professional qualifications, this is an important time for youth work. This text sets out the current state of debate about youth work for those considering or about to embark on a degree course.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 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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