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Youth Work in the Commonwealth

Youth Work in the Commonwealth

Name: Youth Work in the Commonwealth
Author: Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN: 9781849291736

A Growth Profession

by Commonwealth Secretariat

Published by: The Commonwealth

Imprint: The Commonwealth

272 Pages, 165.00 × 240.00 mm

Paperback
9781849291736
Published: September 2017

£45.00

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Description
Contents

Credits
List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Acknowledgements
Foreword Message from the Commonwealth Alliance of Youth Workers' Associations (CAYWA)
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Glossary
Executive Summary
1. Background
1.1 Introduction
1.2 A Youth Work definition and contexts
1.3 The Commonwealth's role in strengthening youth work practice
1.4 Purpose of the Survey
1.5 Methodology and Data Notes
2. Introduction to Youth Work
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The nature of youth work
2.3 Youth work for all, especially the marginalised
Notes
3. Defining Professionalism
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Professional practice
3.3 Professionalism in organisations
3.4 The baseline's criteria for assessing professionalism and outcomes
3.5 Professionalism exemplified
Note
4. Paradigms of Practice
4.1 Introduction
4.2 An overview of paradigms of practice
4.3 A mixed heritage
4.4 Uganda: bottom-up initiatives for the recognition of youth work?
4.5 Country X: youth empowerment and party political goals
4.6 Canada's work with youth: is it youth work?
4.7 Psycho-social 'models': Canadian child and youth care work and Pravah (India) 1
4.8 Youth work in youth development – New Zealand and Zambia
4.9 Economics driving instrumentalist youth work: Bangladesh
4.10 Critique of instrumentalist youth work: India
4.11 Diverse contexts, diverse needs
4.12 Youth work needs to be inclusive but is not everything
Notes
5. A Selective History of Youth Work
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Histories
5.3 The growth of formal state processes and mechanisms
Note
6. Trends in National Youth Work Practice
6.1 Introduction
6.2 State/national responses to youth work
6.3 Trends in regional responses
6.4 Conclusion
Notes
7. Legislation and Policy
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Legislation and policy for youth work
7.3 Regional trends in legislation and policy
7.4 Conclusions
Notes
8. Professional Associations for Youth Work
8.1 Introduction
8.2 What is a professional association?
8.3 An overview of youth work associations in the Commonwealth
8.4 Regional trends
8.5 The Commonwealth Alliance of Youth Workers' Associations (CAYWA)
8.6 Conclusion
Notes
9. Qualifications Pathways
9.1 Introduction
9.2 A qualifications pathway for youth workers from short courses to PhD
9.3 What is a professional qualification?
9.4 A professional qualification in youth work
9.5 Accredited courses
9.6 Short courses (usually non-accredited)
9.7 Qualifications and competencies of teachers of youth work
9.8 Practice assessment
9.9 Conclusion
Notes
10. Regulating Practice
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Regulatory processes in youth work
10.3 Regional trends in regulating practice and practitioner safety
10.4 Trends in youth safeguarding and practitioner vetting
10.5 Conclusions
Notes
11. Professional Validation of Youth Work Education and Training
11.1 Introduction
11.2 A model of the professional accreditation of youth work
11.3 Replicability of professional accreditation
11.4 Professional accreditation in Commonwealth regions
11.5 Justifying the professional label
11.6 Conclusion
12. Professional Supervision
12.1 Introduction
12.2 What is professional supervision in the context of professional learning and development?
12.3 Youth work supervision in the Commonwealth
12.4 Developing professional supervision practice
12.5 Core factors in teaching supervision
12.6 Ways and contexts
12.7 Practice without supervision can become malpractice
12.8 Conclusion
13. Financial Investment and Youth Worker Remuneration
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Investment in youth work
13.3 Youth worker remuneration
13.4 Conclusion
Note
14. Conclusions and Recommendations – Way Forward for Professional Youth Work
14.1 The 'Musts'
14.2 The 'Shoulds'
Notes
Annex 1: Identified Commonwealth Youth Workers' Associations
Annex 2: Baseline Questionnaire
Annex 3: Baseline Interviewees
Annex 4: State/National Youth Representation Structures as of mid-2016
Annex 5: Principles Linked To Course Content and Subject Areas
Annex 6: Core Building Blocks for Youth Work Education and Training: An Example from Youth Workers' Association, Australia
Annex 7: Graduate Capabilities: Youth Workers' Association – Australia
References