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How can youth workers support young people while delivering policy? What makes a 'positive activity' positive? When is an 'informed choice' truly informed? Why is politics in education discouraged? How can we make sense of all of this? Writing from a tradition of informed and radical dissent, Belton asks those working with young people to reassess their role and motivation and, on the basis of the radical traditions of youth work, critique the imposed forms of 'protection' (surveillance) 'welfare' (child care) 'management' (administrative fire-fighting) and pretty much formalised (didactic) instruction/advice giving. Belton addresses topics that are ripe for review in this inspiring collection of interrelated discussions, which offers: a foundation for workers, leaders and students to engage in positive critical analysis of the shift in government focus from individual and groups of young people - and their personal and collective perspectives - to national, functional, ecomic requirements; ways of putting into perspective this move away from seeing the strength of young people as their relatively unmediated potential to be a fresh and vibrant natural resource to reinvigorate society; and, a launching pad for practitioners to consider how to use their professional judgement to alter perceptions and routines of services in ways that challenge traditions - but without condemning other academics, thinkers or youth workers. It presents Tania de St Croix's consideration of a foundation literature of radical youth work, and how new theories could be engendered. Zuber Ahmed's concluding chapter encourages youth workers to: constantly question their own actions and interventions; help young people - through questioning - to forsake ready-made ideas and products and reawaken their own - and our - imaginations, sense of wonder, and faith in dynamic possibilities. The goal is to engender a self-reinforcing cycle, whereby radical theory is enlivened via practice, the critique of which provides the basis and provocation of professional judgment (development or even the rejection of convention) which is the conduit of radical theory (that tested in practice evokes further critique). Not a formal academic book, it uses logical deconstruction of current paradigms, personal narrative, life story and metaphor as the means for the reader to begin to take a look at the fundamentals of youth work practice and question its taken-for-granted tions. It will enable youth workers to think clearly about the social function and/or political purpose of 'education' in a time when many feel 'community education' to be their imposed role. As Belton puts it: 'I have worked with the contributors to leave as much room as possible for the reader to make personal links to practice and to create their own associations between the elements that make up the whole of this book. I hope this will mean that it will be a different book for every individual that reads it; this would be in the best traditions of the making of professional judgement, creating the means for us to generate eclecticism rather than conformity and derive comprehension via diversity'.

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Russell House Publishing Ltd
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1905541570
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9781905541577
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Brian Belton
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English
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Social Issues, Services & Welfare
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Lyme Regis
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Author Biography
Brian Belton has been a youth worker in - amongst other places - Bethnal Green, Glasgow and the Falkland Islands, has completed a Doctorate on the nature of identity, race and ethnicity, is a senior lecturer at London's YMCA George Williams College - the biggest trainer of youth workers in the UK - and has taught youth work in several countries. He is the author of over 20 books, as well as sociologist, critical anthropologist and social historian. Tania de St Croix has been involved in youth work, play schemes and community activism since leaving school in 1993. She grew up in Bath and has mostly lived and worked there and in Manchester. She is currently a detached youth worker for a small charity in Hackney, London. Zuber Ahmed has worked in several voluntary youth and community organisations in a range of settings, from detached youth work to conventional youth club environments, and has been involved with several international youth programmes. He is a Senior Youth Worker with Tower Hamlets Youth Service, managing a youth centre and a team of staff.
Date of Publication
30/11/2009
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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