About the Book
The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice showcases the value of professional work with young people as it is practiced in diverse forms in locations around the world. The editors have brought together an international team of contributors who reflect the wide range of approaches that identify as youth work, and the even wider range of approaches that identify variously as community work or community development work with young people, youth programmes, and work with young people within care, development and (informal) education frameworks. The Handbook is structured to explore histories, current practice and future directions:
Part One: 'Youth Work' and Approaches to Professional Work with Young People
Part Two: Professional Work With Young People: Projects and Practices to Inspire
Part Three: Values and Ethics in Work with Young People
Part Four: Current Challenges and Hopes for the Future
Table of Contents:
Introduction - Pam Alldred, Fin Cullen, Kathy Edwards, and Dana Fusco
PART 1: Approaches to Youth Work Across Time and Place
Chapter 1: Defining Youth Work: exploring the boundaries, continuity and diversity of youth work practice - Trudi Cooper
Chapter 2: How to Support Young People in a Changing World: The sociology of generations and youth work - Dan Woodman and Johanna Wyn
Chapter 3: Looking over our shoulders: Youth work and its history - Anthony Jeffs
Chapter 4: Some conceptions of youth and youth work in the United States - Dana Fusco
Chapter 5: Youth Work as a Colonial Export: Explorations From the Global South - Kathy Edwards and Ismail Shaafee
Chapter 6: Let Principles Drive Practice: Reclaiming Youth Work in India - Roshni K. Nuggehalli
Chapter 7: The Impact of Neoliberalism Upon the Character and Purpose of English Youth Work and Beyond - Tony Taylor, Paula Connaughton, Tania de St Croix, Bernard Davies, and Pauline Grace
Chapter 8: Youth Work in England: A Profession with a Future? - Helen M.F. Jones
Chapter 9: Precarious Practices with Risky Subjects? Policy and Practice Explorations in the UK and Europe - Fin Cullen and Simon Bradford
Chapter 10: Undoing Sexism and Youth Work Practice: Seeking Equality, Unsettling Ideology, Affirming Difference - A UK Perspective - Janet Batsleer
Chapter 11: Intersectionality and Resistance in Youth Work: Young People, Peace and Global ′Development′ in a Racialized World - Momodou Sallah, Mike Ogunnusi and Richard Kennedy
Chapter 12: Youth Work and Social Pedagogy: Reflections from the UK and Europe - Kieron Hatton
Chapter 13: 21st Century Youth Work: Life Under Global Capitalism - Hans Skott-Myhre and Kathleen Skott-Myhre
PART 2: Professional Work With Young People: Projects and Practices to Inspire
Chapter 14: Participation, Empowerment and Democracy: Engaging with Young People′s Views - Philippa Collin, Girish Lala, and Leo Fieldgrass
Chapter 15: Faith-based Youth Work: Education, Engagement and Ethics - Graham Bright, Naomi Thompson, Peter Hart, and Bethany Hayden
Chapter 16: Together we Walk: The Importance of Relationship in Youth Work with Refugee Young People - Jen Couch
Chapter 17: Screaming Aloud from the da old plantation down-under: Youth Work on the margins in Aotearoa New Zealand - Fiona Beals, Peter-Clinton Foaese, Martini Miller, Helen Perkins and Natalie Sargent
Chapter 18: Promoting Children First Youth Work in the Youth Justice System and Beyond - Stephen Case and Rachel Morris
Chapter 19: Critical Street Work: the politics of working (in) outside institutions - Michael Whelan and Helmut Steinkellner
Chapter 20: Youth Work, Arts Practice and Transdisciplinary Space - Frances Howard, Steph Brocken, and Nicola Sim
Chapter 21: Fringe Work - Street-level Divergence in Swedish Youth Work - Björn Andersson
Chapter 22: The Alchemy of work with Young Women - Susan Morgan and Eliz McArdle
Chapter 23: Supporting Trans And/Or Non-Binary Young People: UK Methods and Approaches - Catherine McNamara
PART 3: Values and Ethics in Work with Young People
Chapter 24: An Ethics of Caring in Youth Work Practice - Joshua Spier and David Giles
Chapter 25: Relationship Centrality in Work with Young People with Experience of Violence - Daniel Jupp Kina
Chapter 26: Reflective Practice: Gaze, Glance and Being a Youth Worker - Jo Trelfa
Chapter 27: The Challenges for British Youth Workers of Government Strategies to ′Prevent Terrorism′ - Paul Thomas
Chapter 28: The Politics of Gang Intervention in New England, USA: Knowledge, Partnership, and Youth Transformation - Ellen Foley, Angel Guzman, Miguel Lopez, Laurie Ross, Jennifer Safford-Farquharson, with Katie Byrne, Egbert Pinero, and Ron Waddell
Chapter 29: Coercion in Sexual Relationships: Challenging Values in school-based work - Jo Heslop
Chapter 30: Youth & Community Approaches To Preventing Child Sexual Exploitation: South African and UK Project Experiences - Kate D′Arcy, Roma Thomas, and Candice Wallas
Chapter 31: Allies, Not Accomplices: What Youth Work can Learn from Trans and Disability Movements - Wolfgang Vachon and Tim McConnell
Chapter 32: The Challenges of Using a Youth Development Approach in a Mental Health and Addictions Service for Young People - Mark Wood
Chapter 33: Gaze Interrupted: Speaking back to Stigma with Visual Research - Victoria Restler and Wendy Luttrell
Chapter 34: The Ethical Foundations of Youth Work as an International Profession - Howard Sercombe
Chapter 35: Youth Work at the End of Life? - Rajesh Patel
PART 4: Current Challenges, Future Possibilities
Chapter 36: Youth Work Practices in Conflict Societies: Lessons, Challenges and Opportunities - Ken Harland and Alastair Scott-McKinley
Chapter 37: Popular Education and Youth Work: Learnings from Ghana - Marion Thomson and Kodzo Chapman
Chapter 38: Roma Youth and Global Youth Work - Brian Belton
Chapter 39: Community Development with Young People - Exploring a New Model - Helen Bartlett and Adam Muirhead
Chapter 40: Returning to Responsive Youth Work in New York City - Susan Matloff-Nieves, Tanya Wiggins, Jennifer Fuqua, Marisa Ragonese, Steve Pullano, and Gregory Brender
Chapter 41: Uncomfortable Knowledge and the Ethics of Good Practice in Australia′s Offshore Refugee Detention Centers - Judith Bessant and Rob Watts
Chapter 42: The Evolution of Youth Empowerment: From Programming to Partnering - Heather Ramey and Heather Lawford
Chapter 43: Towards a Shared Vision of Youth Work: Developing a Worker-Based Youth Work Curriculum - Tomi Kiilakoski, Viljami Kinnunen, and Ronnie Djupsund
Chapter 44: Evaluating Youth Work in its Contexts - Sue Cooper and Anu Gretschel
Conclusion - Dana Fusco, Pam Alldred, Kathy Edwards, and Fin Cullen
About the Author :
Pam Alldred is Reader in Education and Youth Studies in the Social Work Division at Brunel University London, UK. She researches sexualities, parenting, and sex education and has written about discourse analytic, ethnographic and new materialist approaches to research, as well as the political and ethical dilemmas raised by participatory research and representational claims. Pam has led two large international projects on gender-related violence and then on sexual violence with European Union cofunding. She recently published Sociology and the New Materialism (with Nick J. Fox, SAGE, 2016) and coedits the Handbook of Youth Work Practice (SAGE, 2017). She is a member of the Sex Education and the Gender and Education journal editorial boards.
Review :
This book remarkably covers the breadth of youth work in all its diversity while capturing the common threads and principles that make for its distinct practice. This book maintains academic rigour while retaining an eye for the nuances of practice, which it contextualises beautifully. It gives insight into the practice of youth work for both the novice and the seasoned activist and archivist. Perhaps most importantly it re-affirms the need to defend youth work in times of uncertainty and with the creeping malaise of neo-liberalism, neo conservatism and new managerialism. This book is a must for any pedagogue, practitioner, student or policy maker with a concern for young people and the practices and professionals who work with them. I would recommend it becomes essential reading list on any youth and community work course.
Authors from ten countries contribute to this expansive and detailed description, analysis, and understanding of that direct work with young people and indirect work on their behalf called "youth work" – an emergent semi-profession in some places, a full profession with long and deep historical roots in others. This book tells both the youth work family of resemblances and the families of practices which constitute much of what is both youth work and work with youth in some of the North, with South examples from Brazil, Ghana, and India. In this very broad Handbook of youth practice authors typically locate this practice within their local to national spaces and to youth issues and problems therein, with emphases on social and cultural, and at times economic and political contexts, and responding policies, programs, and services. Less present are the guild attributes of the family of youth work or understanding of youth/young people/adolescents, how they are seen and understood. Strong is the book’s substance of how young people are responded to and the rationale for these approaches.
This Handbook is an excellent overview of one take on the family of youth work, helpful to beginners who will be given a range of families of responses to youth, for experts in youth work practice who are always on the look for programmatic ideas, and for university faculty who want a text useful for classes on both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and for these same reasons, for those in youth work professional development.
Containing over forty stimulating contributions by youth work practitioner educators and researchers, this collection explores contemporary practice examples and innovative approaches to youth work and features chapters from the UK, Australia and USA. It’s an essential resource for youth and community work students and practitioners alike, for work with young people in reflective, participatory and ethically conscious ways. The chapters offer critical perspectives that are sure to stimulate discussion and debate to enhance everyday practice and a broader development of youth work.
The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice is a must read for all those interested in youth work and its affiliated professions. True to its name, the Handbook covers some of the most important issues affecting the field of contemporary youth work, drawing on the work and experiences of scholars and practitioners from around the world. The editors have carefully chosen important theoretical issues, contemporary challenges and practical examples from among the many faces of international youth work. It is by far the most comprehensive volume on youth work I have seen to date and highly recommend it for youth practitioners and scholars everywhere.
Of all social professions youth work is undoubtedly the most diverse in shapes and methods. This book gives an overview of this incredibly resourceful, yet vulnerable practice, with appropriate attention to evolutions over time and space. A broad scale of Anglophone authors, spanning various fields of practice, succeed in this mission impossible. This book is an indispensable source of inspiration for practitioners, students and teachers who believe that an emancipatory youth work practice is of utmost importance in the development of young people, and in the maintenance of a sustainable democracy.
Critical assessments of the ways in which professionals engage with young people remain imperative to capacity-building for youth work practitioners and researchers. This is a valuable compilation of a diversity of practices in local contexts around the world which offers historical and contemporary critique of "Youth Work" without losing sight of the positive contributions of youth work practices. I recommend the volume as a key resource to support reflective practice and as an inspiration for further advancing research on global youth work.
This SAGE Handbook offers an excellent overview for deliberating the values, ethics and conceptualization of youth work. It examines diverse working approaches to working with youth, and scrutinizes the major themes for promoting the well-being, well-belonging, and well-becoming of young people in an age of increasing uncertainty and insecurity. It is a must-read if you care to know the why, what and how of youth work across time and space.
