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For Youth Workers and Youth Work: Speaking Out for a Better Future

For Youth Workers and Youth Work: Speaking Out for a Better Future

by Doug Nicholls (Author)

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    Hardcover 2012

    $98.76
Synopsis

In this unique and passionate book, Doug Nicholls proposes a cultural revolution within youth work. He draws on the best of youth work's past to redesign the youth work map for today. He speaks with wit, wisdom and warmth to youth workers about their craft. Yet he takes no intellectual prisoners in proposing a new role for youth work in the struggle for social justice. No student or practitioner should miss it.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 22 Sep 2012
ISBN 10: 1847428711
ISBN 13: 9781847428714

Media Reviews
This is a powerful, wide ranging and thought provoking book which needs to be read by a wider audience than just those involved in working directly with young people. Kevin Donnelly
a refreshing and illuminating read Children and Young People Now
Timely, essential Graham Bright, York St John University
Nicholls brings a different perspective to the youth work literature Jean Hatton, University of Hudersfield
An honest and passionate defence for youth work Billie Oliver, UWE
An excellent, honest read Rachael Fell-Chambers, Bishop Grosseteste University College
Extremely accessible, this will challenge and appeal to youth workers, students, academics and policy makers alike. Essential and timely reading. Kev Henman, Divisional Youth Officer, Devon Youth Service
Doug Nicholls' message - the need for a new youth work for a new century - is sometimes polemical, often provocative, invariably partisan and always passionate. But it is principled, and it is essential that we reflect carefully on his words. Howard Williamson, Professor of European Youth Policy, University of Glamorgan
For Youth Workers and Youth Work is an accessible, essential and timely read for statutory and voluntary sector service managers, youth workers, educationalists, students and policy makers interested in the wellbeing of young people in Britain both now and in the future, and how best to promote youth work. I strongly recommend it. Youth and Policy journal
Author Bio
Doug Nicholls has been a professional and trade union leader of youth workers for over thirty years. He has written extensively on the history of unionisation in the sector and youth work, and produced unique publications on key issues in practice. His advocacy for youth work and youth workers throughout the UK and Ireland have put him in the forefront of debates about theory and practice and much of this experience is distilled into this new publication.