Summary
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The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice showcases the value of professional work with young people as it is practiced in diverse forms in locations around the world. The editors have brought together an international team of contributors who reflect the wide range of approaches that identify as youth work, and the even wider range of approaches that identify variously as community work or community development work with young people, youth programmes, and work with young people within care, development and (informal) education frameworks. The Handbook is structured to explore histories, current practice and future directions: Part One: 'Youth Work' and Approaches to Professional Work with Young People Part Two: Professional Work With Young People: Projects and Practices to Inspire Part Three: Values and Ethics in Work with Young People Part Four: Current Challenges and Hopes for the Future
Fringe Work – Street-level Divergence in Swedish Youth Work
Fringe Work – Street-level Divergence in Swedish Youth Work
Introduction
Working with young people means relating to a social space of transformation, transgression and variation. Change and adaptability have always been integral parts of youth work (Jeffs 2015: 75). At the same time, a structured and sustained approach to young people’s lives and troubles forms experiences and creates patterns of interventions that function as a basis for youth work methodology. Approaches do not need to be constantly reinvented; there is a working tradition.
In Sweden, detached youth work constitutes such a tradition. Inspired by outreach approaches and gang work in American cities (Calissendorff et al. 1986: 16), the first detached youth workers were ...
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