Author: Rob White
Publisher: ACYS Publishing
ISBN: 9781875236619
Category : Social work with youth
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Book Description
"Recent decades have seen the development and growth of youth work as a recognised and increasingly professionalised occupation in Australia. This has occurred despite the diminished profile of 'youth affairs' under conservative governments, and persistent funding crises at the project and peak body levels. As the political pendulum swings once again in favour of the youth field, it is expected that greater resources and heightened expectations will accrue to youth work as a practice. The book considers key issues surrounding youth work as a career and a profession. It delves into the practical skills and knowledge needed by individuals as they undertake work in the youth field. It highlights the ideological or philosophical universe within which workers operate, and the more mundane aspects of being a worker in a field not noted for extravagant funding"--Australian Policy Online website.
Author: Kate Sapin
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446289699
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Book Description
This popular textbook gives students a practical understanding of the broad range of skills they will need during the course of their studies and throughout their youth work career. Topics covered include: - Reaching out to young people - Developing young people′s participation - Working in different settings - Bringing young people together - Practice placements The new edition will be essential reading for all foundation and undergraduate students of youth work. It will also be a valuable resource for qualified health, social care and education professionals who wish to understand the intricacies of working with young people.
Author: Mark Cieslik
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446290468
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Book Description
What is youth? How do we understand youth in its social and cultural context? Mark Cieslik and Donald Simpson here provide a concise and readily accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of youth studies. Drawing upon the latest research and developments in the field, as well as discussing the fundamental ideas underlying the discipline as a whole, it offers a comprehensive yet unpacked understanding of youth as a social phenomenon. Illuminating the many abstract and contested concepts within youth studies, the book offers explanations to questions such as: How might we define youth? How can we understand young people in relation to their social identities and practices? What is the relationship between youth and social class? How do youth cultures develop? How can we understand youth in a globalized perspective? Key Concepts in Youth Studies stands out as a natural companion for students on youth studies, sociology, criminology and social science programmes. It will also be useful for youth practitioners such as social workers and teachers.
Author: Tony Jeffs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350314218
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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A contemporary reflection on current practice, this book gets to the heart of what 'youth work' is about. It provides an in-depth overview and analysis of practice,addressing the many experiences of working with young people through insightful chapters written by practitioners themselves.
Author: Jason J Wood
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1412928850
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Book Description
This authoritative text is a must-read for anyone working, or training to work, with young people. It considers how theory, policy and practice intersect and influence one another in today’s challenging and rapidly changing social, economic, and political contexts. Offering a timely contribution to the debate, it covers key themes and developments, including the principles that underpin work with young people, the policy and practice in a wide range of contexts, both national and international, the key concepts currently high on the policy and practice agenda, and how we understand the lives of young people, in particular investigating their ‘real worlds’ and understanding their social construction.
Author: Janet R Batsleer
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1844456986
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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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.
Author: Kristen M. Pozzoboni
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 168123565X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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The purpose of this book is to compile and publicize the best current thinking about training and professional development for youth workers. School age youth spend far more of their time outside of school than inside of school. The United States boasts a rich and vibrant ecosystem of Out?of?School Time programs and funders, ranging from grassroots neighborhood centers to national Boys and Girls Clubs. The research community, too, has produced some scientific consensus about defining features of high quality youth development settings and the importance of after?school and informal programs for youth. But we know far less about the people who provide support, guidance, and mentoring to youth in these settings. What do youth workers do? What kinds of training, certification, and job security do they have? Unlike K?12 classroom teaching, a profession with longstanding – if contested – legitimacy and recognition, “youth work” does not call forth familiar imagery or cultural narratives. Ask someone what a youth worker does and they are just as likely to think you are talking about a young person working at her first job as they are to think you mean a young adult who works with youth. This absence of shared archetypes or mental models is matched by a shortage of policies or professional associations that clearly define youth work and assume responsibility for training and preparation. This is a problem because the functions performed by youth workers outside of school are critical for positive youth development, especially in our current context governed by widening income inequality. The US has seen a decline in social mobility and an increase in income inequality and racial segregation. This places a greater premium on the role of OST programs in supporting access and equity to learning opportunities for children, particularly for those growing up in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. Fortunately, in the past decade there has been an emergence of research and policy arguments about the importance of naming, defining, and attending to the profession of youth work. A report released in 2013 by the DC Children and Youth Investment Corporation suggests employment opportunities for youth workers are growing faster than the national average; and as the workforce increases, so will efforts to professionalize it through specialized training and credentials. Our purpose in this volume is to build on that momentum by bringing together the best scholarship and policy ideas – coming from in and outside of higher education – about conceptions of youth work and optimal types of preparation and professional development.
Author: Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137480041
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology re-examines the set of relations generally referred to as working with children and youth. It presents a series of propositions that highlight politicized strategies to working with young people under current conditions of late liberal capitalism.
Author: Pam Alldred
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1526416425
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Book Description
Showcases the value of professional work with young people as it is practiced in diverse forms, and in locations from around the world.
Author: Nicholls, Doug
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447308603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Book Description
In this unique and passionate book, Doug Nicholls proposes a cultural revolution within youth work. He draws on the best of youth work's past to redesign the youth work map for today. He speaks with wit, wisdom and warmth to youth workers about their craft. Yet he takes no intellectual prisoners in proposing a new role for youth work in the struggle for social justice. No student or practitioner should miss it.
