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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
Participation, Empowerment and Democracy: Engaging with Young People’s Views
Participation, Empowerment and Democracy: Engaging with Young People’s Views
A key test of participatory initiatives and processes from the perspective of inclusive citizenship is whether they do challenge traditional power relations or simply reinforce them. (Lister, 2007: 439)
Introduction
One objective of youth work is to facilitate self-formation and awareness in young people through identification and fostering capabilities and agency. When focused on empowerment and enhanced civic engagement, youth work has an explicitly political dimension: to increase civic and political knowledge and skills, but also to foster the conditions by which young people can take action and make claims to citizenship. In its ...
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