About This Book

Informal Learning in Youth Work offers fresh perspectives on all aspects of informal education in the youth work setting. Designed to develop the reader's knowledge and skills, this comprehensive textbook explores key issues such as communication, power relations, ethics, gender exclusion, sexuality, race discrimination and social class. The author places particular emphasis on conversation as a key means of promoting informal learning and engaging effectively with young people. Other key features include: " case studies that illustrate the application of theory to `real-life' practice " an emphasis on critical reflection, including reflective questions " an easily accessible style, with key terms and tips for further reading " a four-part structure guiding the reader through different stages of conversations and relationships in informal education. Informal Learning in Youth Work provides a unique combination of theoretical analysis and practice tips. Satisfying training and course requirements in the area, it will be essential reading for all students on youth and community work courses, as well as those in allied fields such as education and social work. It will also be a valuable reference for practitioners working with young people on a daily basis.

Topics : Community and youth work

Table Of Content

1 How to Use This Book

2 Informal Learning and Informal Education

Part One: Whose Agenda?

3 Identity, Identity Politics and Rights

4 Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Challenging the 'NEU' Discourse

5 Personal Agendas: Reflective Practice in the Context of Diversity

Part Two: Getting to Know Young People

6 Understanding Young People

7 Boundaries in Practice

8 `It's Boring ....' How Do Youth Workers Engage?

Part Three: Getting Deeper

9 Safe Space and Identity-based Groupwork

10 The Voluntary Relationship: Competence, Negotiation and Accompaniment

11 Friendship and Professionalism

12 Animation, Informal Education and Creativity

Part Four: Unfinished Conversations

13 Silence, Bullying and Despair: Youth Work Responses

14 Silence, Spirit and Solidarity: Resources for Practice

15 Youth Work, Democracy and Participation

16 Community Cohesion and Transversal Politics

References

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About the Authors

Janet R. Batsleer:

Janet Batsleer studied English at Cambridge and was a researchstudent at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, when Professor Stuart Hall was Director. She worked as a youth and community worker for ten years before taking up a post as Lecturer in Youth and Community Work at Manchester Polytechnic in 1986. She has taught and conducted research in youth and community work since then, and was part of the team which established a Women's Studies M.A. at MMU,which ran successfully during the 1990's. Her research has focussed on anti-racist and feminist approaches to youth work; on the theory and practice of informal education in youth work settings; on alternative education traditions and the resources they offer to people whose lives are conducted at the margins of the mainstream. So,she has published on informal groupwork responses to young people who self-harm; on groupwork with South Asian women survivors of domestic violence; on arts-based practice with young men who are on the edge of the sex industry; as well as on lesbian,gay,queer and trans youth work. She is currently working on a new edition of 'Working with Girls and Young Women in Community Settings' (Ashgate 1996) which presents a feminist-inspired community-based approach to informal education for and with girls, linked to the Feminist Webs oral history initiative. She has completed project evaluations with The Blue Room, on the place of creativity in responses to young men who sell sex, and with Groundwork UK on developing strategies to increase the diversity of groups with whom they engage, including offering resources to people with long-term mental health difficulties, lesbian and gay communities, and to small minority ethnic communities in predominantly white areas.

ISBN: 9786038147818

Author: Janet R. Batsleer

Publisher: Educational Book House

Publish Year: 2021

Size: 17×24cm

Pages number: 258