Youth Work

What is the most effective way of pursuing one's own goals in the pre-school playroom? This fascinating book offers a conversation analysis of children's arguments, revealing disputing as a highly ordered, rule-governed activity, even amongst very young children. The author provides a rich theoret..

While often overshadowed by other priorities, social work educators can play an important contribution in ensuring that promoting health and well-being is firmly on the social work agenda for service users as well as for our students and ourselves as educators. This book raises important questions a..

This is an invaluable guide to making the most of helping relationships. It concentrates on the practicalities and explores how to structure the help practitioners give to young people...

Sarah Swann provides a fresh approach to examining the long-standing debates over disaffection, and in particular social class differences in educational achievement, through a mixed methods methodology and the showcasing of new research. By observing pupils as they engage with peers and teachers i..

Sarah Swann provides a fresh approach to examining the long-standing debates over disaffection, and in particular social class differences in educational achievement, through a mixed methods methodology and the showcasing of new research. By observing pupils as they engage with peers and teachers i..

Increasingly youth practitioners need to be able to develop, review and evidence their work using a variety of research and assessment tools. This text equips students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of research design, practice and dissemination, as well as approaches to evidence-ba..

Increasingly youth practitioners need to be able to develop, review and evidence their work using a variety of research and assessment tools. This text equips students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of research design, practice and dissemination, as well as approaches to evidence-ba..

Detailed observational studies of children's everyday play and social interactions are rare in the social scientific literature. Using an ethnomethodological approach, Talk and Social Interaction in the Playground offers a thorough and fine-grained analysis of the methods and practices used by a gro..

Detailed observational studies of children's everyday play and social interactions are rare in the social scientific literature. Using an ethnomethodological approach, Talk and Social Interaction in the Playground offers a thorough and fine-grained analysis of the methods and practices used by a gro..

The introduction of compulsory citizenship education into the national curriculum has generated a plethora of new interests in the politics of childhood and youth. This important book throws new light on how teenagers engage with citizenship, and examines the role of citizenship in creating future r..

In Australia, 'country girl' names a field of experiences and life-stories by girls and women who have grown up outside of the demographically dominant urban centres. It also names a set of ideas about Australia that is surprisingly consistent across the long twentieth century despite also working a..

Themes and Stories in Youth Work Practice takes a refreshing look at the creative possibilities of working with youth in a variety of group care and developmental settings. Author Mark Krueger presents an innovative approach to developing relationships through shared experiences that plays out like ..