For youth workers and youth work : speaking out for a better future /
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 prisoner...
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Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL :
Policy Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Recognition
- What youth workers do
- Part 2. Political/economic contexts
- Youth workers and neoliberalism
- Part 3. Political realities
- Youth workers as workers
- Youth workers as professionals
- Youth workers as trade unionists
- Youth workers as socialists
- Youth workers and the state
- Part 4. Professional demands
- Youth workers in defence of youth work
- Youth workers as negative activists
- Youth workers as reflective, analytical practitioners
- Youth workers as leaders
- Part 5. Future considerations
- Youth work and inequality
- Youth in a suspect society
- New youth workers and new youth work.
