Socially-just radical alternatives for education and youth work practice
Subtitle: re-imagining ways of working with young people
By: edited by Charlie Cooper, Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Hull, UK ; Sinéad Gormally, Lecturer, University of Hull ; Gill Hughes, Programme Director, University of Hull
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781137393586
Subjects: EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives; EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions; Critical pedagogy; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Aims and objectives; Non-formal education; Young adults; EDUCATION / Non-Formal Education; School-to-work transition; Educational change; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work; Education; Employment
Description: "Challenging dominant neoliberal discourses about ways of working with 'disconnected' young people, this book sets out ideas for generating radically different ways of thinking about such practices. Drawing on contemporary and historical material, the book argues that alternative approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society. The book achieves this by re-imagining - with the aid of utopian studies - how formal and informal ways of working with young people might be made more empowering. Each chapter contributes to addressing the heterogeneity of experience of diverse life-worlds - in contrast to the homogenous one-size fits all approach to education and youth work that has become the dominant mode in neoliberal societies. Whilst many young people do make successful transitions to adulthood, a substantial minority are failed by an increasingly marketized social system  - particularly education where young people are expected to achieve specified outcomes in a structure that does not speak to them, and leaves them wondering on the irrelevance of academic qualifications that seem to be out of their reach"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. The Case for Re-Imagining the Ways of Working with Young People in Education and Youth Work; Charlie Cooper, Sinéad Gormally and Gill Hughes; title: 2. Challenging The Order Of Things: Independent Working-Class Education As A Model For Contemporary Praxis; John Grayson; title: 3. Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education; Charlie Cooper; title: 4. Emancipatory Praxis; A Social-Justice Approach to Equality Work; Annette Coburn and Sinéad Gormally; title: 5. Social Justice and Social Pedagogy; Pat Petrie; title: 6. Alternative Provision Free Schools: Educational Fireworks Or Sparks Of Optimism For Excluded Young People?; Max Hope; title: 7. In Pursuit Of A Common Values Base For Working With Young People In Formal, Informal And Social Learning; Julie Rippingale; title: 8. Feminist Agendas in Informal Education; Janet Batsleer; title: 9. 'Race', Ethnicity and Young People; Momodou Sallah and Richard Kennedy; title: 10. Inclusive And Accessible Citizenry: Making Spaces For Working With Young People With (Dis)Abilities; Susan Cullen; title: 11. 'Imagining Otherwise' or Tinkering with the System?; Gill Hughes; title: 12. Re-Imagining Ways Of Working With Young People In Education And Youth Work; Charlie Cooper, Sinéad Gormally and Gill Hughes.