Youth Work

  • Youth Work: Preparation for Practice
    Youth Work: Preparation for Practice
    By Sue Westwood, Jason Wood, Gill Thompson

    Hughes, E., Kitzinger, J. and Murdock, G. (2006) 'The Media and Risk', in P. Taylor-Gooby and J. Zinn (eds) Risk in Social Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Huskins, J. (2003) Youth Work Support for Schools, Bristol: John ...

  • Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts
    Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts
    By Graham Bright

    At the centre of this shorthand lies a problem with the theological expression of Christian youth work and its relationship to ... Much youth ministry canon appears to lack theological depth and ignores the potentialities of relational ...

  • Youth Work: Emerging Perspectives in Youth Development
    Youth Work: Emerging Perspectives in Youth Development
    By Christopher R. Edginton, Christopher L. Kowalski, Steven Wayne Randall

    Provides an introductory overview of the professional practice of youth work and youth development. This book captures the elements that make youth work a unique and powerful experience for those working with young people.

  • Youth Work: Global Futures
    Youth Work: Global Futures
    By Graham Bright, Carole Pugh

    Youth work as border pedagogy. In J. Batsleer & B. Davies (Eds.), What is youth work? Exeter: Learning Matters. Coburn, A. (2011). Liberation or containment: Paradoxes in youth work as a catalyst for powerful learning.

  • Youth Work: Preparation for Practice
    Youth Work: Preparation for Practice
    By Sue Westwood, Jason Wood, Gill Thompson

    Youth workers may work in a number of settings where youth work is not the primary purpose. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is schoolbasedyouthwork,where theprimary functionoftheschoolisthe delivery offormaleducation.

  • Youth Work: An Institutional Ethnography of Youth Homelessness
    Youth Work: An Institutional Ethnography of Youth Homelessness
    By Naomi Nichols

    Combining institutional ethnography and community-based research,Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parents or guardians, as well as of the difficulties of ...

  • Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts
    Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts
    By Graham Bright

    A chapter of this nature cannot offer anything more than a potted history; yet, it is hoped that it whets readers' appetites for further study and critical reflection. History enables to critique the development of policy and practice ...

  • Youth Work: CHCYTH4A ; Assist Young People in Responding to Crisis

    Youth Work: CHCYTH4A ; Assist Young People in Responding to Crisis

  • Youth Work: Global Futures
    Youth Work: Global Futures
    By Graham Bright, Carole Pugh

    This edited text brings together academics who are at the cutting edge of youth work education.