Summary
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Subject index
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.
Animation, Informal Education and Creativity
Animation, Informal Education and Creativity
- Informal learning is understood as a practice of animation.
- Play and imagination are essential underpinnings of informal learning as animation.
- Arts-based informal learning enables access to important sources of creativity throughout adolescence and adult life: examples of practice come from theatre, dance, music and from the visual arts.
- Creativity draws on both active and passive aspects of the self. The contemporary climate in education values activity over passivity and the disciplines of waiting and non-effort. There is a danger that, in this climate, creativity in youth work will be lost.
Case Study
Some youth workers took a group of young people from the city on a camping trip in a rural area. At the beginning of the week, one of the ...
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