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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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The Dilemmas Youth Workers Face Regarding Families of Participants
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Understanding Youth Worker -Young Person Relationships: How Youth Workers Position Themselves to Support Youth
The findings suggest a number of implications for youth worker practice, and for future research and evaluation. Youth workers are in a unique position that bridges the multiple worlds of youth and affords them the opportunity to move along a continuum of personal and professional relationships …
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An Evaluation of Contextualization and Application of Youth Ministry International's Training of Cuban Youth Workers
… OF CONTEXTUALIZATION AND APPLICATION OF YOUTH MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL'S TRAINING OF CUBAN YOUTH WORKERS James Randall Smith, D.Miss The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012 Chair: Dr. James D. Chancellor This dissertation examines Youth Ministry International's (YMI) paradigm for …
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Design of a System to Monitor Youth Workers' Heat Stress and Positioning using Non-invasive Techniques
… ability to recognize dangerous scenarios, youth workers are exposed to many dangers in the agriculture and lawn care industries. With the abundance of new technologies available on the market, a project was devised to prevent youth from heat exhaustion and equipment run overs by employing …
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Experiences of Student Youth Workers During Work-Integrated (WIL) at Mavambe Secure Care Centre in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
Student youth workers are exposed to a variety of challenging situations during work-integrated learning (WIL), especially those placed at centres dealing with young people in conflict with the law. This study aimed to explore the experiences of student youth workers during work-integrated learning …
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(Re)Imagining Black Youth: Negotiating the Social, Political, and Institutional Dimensions of Urban Community-Based Educational Spaces
Literature on community-based youth programs generally depicts these spaces as valuable settings that support the academic, social, and emotional development of young people (Eccles & Gootman, 2002; Ginwright, 2009; McLaughlin, 2000). However, little research has explored how these organizations …
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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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Is social media doing young people any good? A research study looking at the possible impacts of social media on young people.
… in the literature review, the young people and youth workers who took part in the study provided the study with greater depth and understanding around the topics explored in the literature review. In total, 43 young people ages 11- 18 took part in the questionnaire and 7 young people took part …
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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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Literacy mediation and literacy learning in community-based organisations for young people in a situation of precarity in Québec
… Le Bercail and L’Envol. With the support of the youth workers, the young people were encouraged to learn by doing, a form of learning that can be identified as apprenticeship. The literacy practices used in the organisations were not exclusively controlled by the research participants. Some …
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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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The Youth Service in Gwent: a case study with special reference to present usage and future marketing
… research was to trace the development of the Youth Service in Britain; compare the expectations of consumers and potential consumers in Gwent with actual Service provision; classify Service users by social groupings;determine the implications provided by the empirical data for a …
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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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Children of Moses's experiment : youth, mental health, and hip-hop in the South Bronx
Urban youth have developed ways to overcome trauma and promote wellness in their lives through the art and culture of hip-hop. This paper asks, "how is hip-hop music and culture being used as a tool for mental health promotion amongst urban youth, and are these methods effective?" In recent years, …
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Graffitins spänningsfält. En studie av graffitikultur och interventioner på en lokal arena
… a cultural sector put attention on graffiti. Youth workers way of caring for graffiti writers follows a tradition of social work. This approach focuses the graffiti writers themselves and how to redirect them to accepted forms of artistic expression. The youth workers have good potential to …
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From Street Life to Community Life
… a final question: “What would you want all youth workers who work with young Black people to understand more accurately or correctly?” All of the interviews were then coded for major themes and sub-themes after member checking my understandings with the participants. The findings and their …
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