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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Youth work."”.
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Youth Work Core Purpose, Principles & Practice
The aim of this research is to create a theory of youth work that explains the distinctiveness of the phenomenon known as 'youth work'; and provides a framework for making decisions about practice and the training and development of youth workers. It does so by investigating two central questions - …
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THE POLITICS OF BELONGING AND YOUTH WORK IN MILAN
The thesis examines the role of youth work—understood as a form of non-formal socio-educational practice—in the everyday lives of young people with a migration background in the city of Milan. It investigates the role of this actor in the construction, suspension, or renegotiation of the criteria …
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Killing ostriches: Young women, family violence and youth work
… but to also investigate their experience of youth work practice. Accounts of family violence provided indicate the significance and meaning of family violence for participants. What the study was not able to do is to provide accounts of aspects of youth work practice perceived as beneficial …
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An investigation of Youth Work in Irish Youth Services
… this project is to examine the extent to which youth work in Irish youth services pursues a social controlling function and to identify and examine types of power being deployed in the sector. The growth of youth services with paid, professional staff since the early 1990’s has seen the …
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Mapping and Analysing the Voluntary Youth Work Sector in Wales
… scope, composition, and nature of the Voluntary Youth Work Sector (VYWS) in Wales. At the time, momentum around youth work was growing in Wales due to significant policy and practice developments such as the Interim Youth Work Board and the Youth Work Strategy Implementation Board. The study …
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Meeting the psychosocial needs of young carers : a youth work perspective
… second aim is to determine whether professionals working with young people are aware of the needs of young carers and of the roles and responsibilities they assume. This was carried out by interviewing 3 young carers of parents with mental health difficulties and 4 professionals working with young …
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Love letters to services past: risk and outdoor education in youth work
… lifestyles and the attendant health issues. Youth workers and other similar professionals have to manage these tensions in their day-to-day practices as they decide how far to expose young people to risk. These tensions are exacerbated as youth work and outdoor education in the current …
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Participation and Beyond A collaborative research project investigating examples of participative and empowering youth work
… research project, investigating examples of youth work where young people are enabled to participate in a meaningful way and make decisions that affect their lives. The research employs a participatory action approach, developing in partnership with young people a method of enabling them, and …
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Governing Youth Work Through Problems: A WPR Analysis of the ‘Value for Money and Policy Review of Youth Programmes’
A central premise of this study is that Irish youth work is increasingly governed and re-formed through problems constituted in Government policy discourse. The purpose of the study is to critically analyse contemporary youth work policy in a context of neoliberal reform. The research specifically …
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An investigation into the relevance of shared mental models in youth work settings, supporting young people to achieve positive outcomes.
… models (SMMS) in developing the effectiveness of youth work teams. Much of the literature states that SMMs are crucial for team efficacy in healthcare settings, business, and aviation, although there is limited research about their development. Cooper et al. (2016) explored teamwork and …
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"Youth Workers - Just "Adult Somebodies" in the Lives of Young People?" : An inquiry into Youth Workers' perspective on Professional Youth Work
Youth work in Ireland is evolving from a primarily voluntary activity, engaging young people in out-of-school leisure time activities, to one where there is increasing state involvement, along with a process of professionalisation which now sees some 1400 people employed as youth workers (NYCI …
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Bridging Practice: The Use of Youth Work Methodologies Within Youth Justice. A Case Study of a Youth Justice Team in South Wales
This research centres on the presence of youth work methodologies in a youth justice context by undertaking a case study with a Youth Justice Team in South Wales. Criminal justice literature is increasingly recognising the importance of alternative approaches within the youth justice service, such …
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How do professional stakeholders – youth workers, managers and Heads of Services - conceptualise the role and purpose of youth work in the UK in the 21st century and how has this been impacted by the current prevailing political and economic climate?
This paper considers the purpose of youth work as perceived by professional youth workers and their managers/heads of service. The study involved semi-structured interviews with 30 stakeholders from Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire the South West and London. Interviewees were mostly local authority …
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Young people and the Baptist church: Staying and leaving
… concludes by demonstrating the application to youth work including: the importance of incorporating spirituality in youth work services, incorporating spiritual perspectives in youth work training, and recommending that faith based youth ministries adopt a youth work model.
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Analysing collective action: intersections of power, government and resistance
… June 2008 and February 2018. This body of work encompasses outputs that are focused on community development, community arts, youth work and social movement praxis. These fields of praxis are understood as constituting a vital part of a variegated and differentiated Irish civil society and, …
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A practitioner inquiry into the creation & application of a contextualised therapeutic model to raise the competencies of youth facilitators in Singapore
Bringing about change in any field or work domain can be onerous, with no linear progression towards the certainty of efficacy. Regardless, one of the hallmarks of effective clinical practice is to constantly strive towards improved care for clients and this is often accomplished by practitioners …
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A Foucauldian Analysis of Power and Representation in an Attempt to Run a Photovoice Project with Youth
… is an ethnographic study in leisure research and youth work and an experiment in running a photovoice project. Photovoice is a participatory visual method that embodies the emancipatory ideal of empowering others through self-representation. The literature on photovoice lacks a comprehensive …
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Young people, situated learning, and peace praxis at the margins of everyday life
… including curricula development, teaching, youth and community work, and consultancy. The findings offer three key emergent themes. The first was characterised by how young people have understood peace as being more than ‘deficit peace’, characterised by non-binary peace, ahistorical peace, …
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