Youth Work Process, Product and Practice: Creating an Authentic Curriculum in Work With Young People - Couverture souple

Ord, Jon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905541112 ISBN 13 : 9781905541119

Editeur : Russell House Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

At a time of heightened interest and concern over young people in our communities, how various agencies and professions work with them, is under scrutiny and attack. Ord suggests that: Youth work cannot defend itself against erroneous and rival conceptions of practice unless it can sufficiently articulate its own. Through providing a framework for the creation of authentic curricula for youth work...this book offers one of the means by which individual workers, services and the profession as a whole can promote its unique educational practice. He continues: This is not a pessimistic book... It is critical and points out weaknesses... but its primary purpose is to offer solutions. As Bernard Davies points out, this does not make it a hints-and-tips manual: far from it, [as] its prescriptions are contextualised in a wider discourse on, in particular, educational theory and practice... Jon Ord, head-on, systematically confronts the historic and current controversies, not least by engaging critically with some of youth work s academic and policy-making big hitters. Ord marshals evidence from youth work and draws on a wide, authoritative literature from philosophy, educational psychology, sociology, management and politics. Crucially, he presents and reviews material from recent local authority curriculum documents, in a way that has not been done before. Contents Preface. Foreword by Bernard Davies. Introduction. The emergence of the youth work curriculum. The meaning of curriculum in youth work. Objections to curriculum in youth work. Curriculum as content. Curriculum as product. Curriculum as process. Curriculum as process in youth work practice. Essential elements: participation and power. Essential elements: relationships and group work. Essential elements: choice. On methods. On experiential learning. Curriculum and Transforming Youth Work. On targets. On outcomes. On progression and time. Curriculum and recent youth policy. Use of curriculum. Curriculum

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jon Ord is currently a senior lecturer in youth & community work, at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth. He has extensive experience of youth work having worked in a variety of settings, in both voluntary and statutory services since the mid 80 s. The majority of this experience has been in face-to-face work, but he has also worked as both a trainer and youth services manager.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Russell House Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905541112
• ISBN 13: 9781905541119
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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• Personne responsable: non disponible