Work with Young People
Theory and Policy for Practice
- Jason J Wood - Nottingham Trent University, UK
- Jean Hine - De Montfort University, UK
'The book offers a broad overview of the issues and literature, and will be of immediate use. It enables students to bring themselves up to date with contemporary concerns and changes in the field of community and youth work' - Jean Spence, University of Durham
This authoritative text is a must-read for anyone working - or training to work - with young people. It considers how theory, policy and practice intersect and influence one another in today's challenging and rapidly changing social, economic and political contexts. Offering a timely contribution to the debate, it covers key themes and developments, including:
- how we understand the lives of young people
- the principles that underpin work with young people
- the policy and practice in a wide range of contexts, both national and international
- the key concepts currently high on the policy and practice agenda.
An essential companion for the professional training of youth workers, this core text will also be of interest and value to students in a wide range of fields such as education, criminology and youth justice, social work, sociology and social policy.
Interesting - appropriate for lecturers and those who are teaching courses of HE level - but sometimes a little difficult to understand / follow.
This book provides an excellent range of perspectives that are highly relevant for community and youth studies students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
A very interesting and highly topical selection of chapters which will be useful for probation and police students learngin about working with young people.
Fantasic accessablie book for students and practitioners
A useful source ideal for students studying youth work in the context of a community education degree.
This is a very good text that will enable students to gain an up to date awareness of the issues and context that should be considered when working with young people.
I've made this book an essential text for our Foundation Degree 2nd year students, as well as recommended it for students on the BA. It's highly relevent to the course and I've recieved very positive student feedback.
