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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
Returning to Responsive Youth Work in New York City
Returning to Responsive Youth Work in New York City
Introduction
Youth work as a responsive practice, one that keeps participants at the center, has become tangled up in bureaucracy and top-down requirements. The imperative of centralized management to ensure standardization of measurable ‘quality’ conflicts with the essential premise that young people are at the center of the work as active agents, and that the best youth work responds to their aspirations, interests and issues and enables their voices to be heard through effective advocacy. We claim that ...
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