Formally Informal: Youth and Community Work: Pedagogy and Practice
A special issue of Youth (ISSN 2673-995X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 441
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sexualities and sexual health; gender politics and diversity; parenting, and education for equality with young people, children and the professionals who work with them
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: youth and community work; participatory research and co-production; the scholarship of pedagogy in higher education; specialising in critical and queer pedagogy
Interests: social inequalities; migration; concepts of intelligence; successful student placements; professional maturity; academic snobbery; impact of youth work practice
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Youth and community work training is constantly changing to meet the changes in practice, philosophy, and approaches, although some aspects of training future professionals have remained constant over the years. This Special edition seeks to explore, challenge, and debate the role of training providers in developing future practitioners, exploring how we manage an active relationship with quality label providers, government institutions, and higher education establishments while ensuring that those youth and community work seek to serve are equally important and involved in the process. Proposed and invited papers will embrace a breadth of learning, practice, and research activity related to three continuing contemporary themes exploring the following:
- Pedagogy: what pedagogic approaches are needed to develop future practitioners of youth and community work, i.e., its challenges, opportunities and future possibilities.
- Community: how people have built communities, including communities of practice.
- Practice: how meaningful collaborations have been developed with the embedded involvement of young people and communities.
Prof. Dr. Pam Alldred
Prof. Dr. Mike Seal
Simon Williams
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- youth work
- informal education
- pedagogy
- community engagement
- higher education
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