Youth and Policy Current Issue

Youth and Policy Nos 97 and 98, Autumn 2007/Winter 2008.

A double issue focusing on youth work training, guest edited by John Holmes of Newman University College, Birmingham.

Articles included are:

Introduction: Youth and Community Work Qualifying Courses – Living with the tensions?

John Holmes

Practices, policies and professionals: emerging discourses of expertise in English youth work 1939-1951

Simon Bradford

Challenges in the Education and Training of Youth and Community Workers: Experiences from the Republic of Ireland

Michael OhAodain and Catherine Forde

Cross community youth work training in a divided and contested society

Mark Hammond

‘Teaching’ Values in Pre-qualifying Youth and Community Work Education

Susan Cooper

Supervision in the context of youth and community work training

Yvonne McNamara, Mike Lawley and John Towler

Changing Patterns in Recruiting Youth Workers

Sue Robertson

The Role of Youth and Community Work Training in Relation to Volunteers

Carol Packham

Getting the Balance Right: training and education within NVQ and HE routes to youth work

Jo Trelfa and Dan Richmond

Farewell to all that? The uncertain future of youth and community work education

Tony Jeffs and Jean Spence





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