Advancing youth work
Subtitle: current trends, critical questions
By: edited by Dana Fusco
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780415890458; 9780415890465; 9780203829769
Subjects: Youth workers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A conversation with Ellen Gannett / Dana Fusco and Ellen Gannett; title: Competencies and credentials; title: Embedding and sustaining youth worker core competencies in out-of-school time programs / Sarah Jonas; title: Assessing youth worker competence : national child and youth worker certification / Dale Curry, Andrew J. Schneider-Muoz, Frank Eckles, and Carol Stuart; title: Establishing expertise in an emerging field / Joyce Walker and Kate Walker; title: Youth work and the education of professional practitioners in Australia / Judith Bessant; title: Curriculum; title: A decade of educating youth workers at an urban community college / Pete Watkins; title: A Chicago story : challenge and change / Michael Heathfield; title: The journey to becoming a youth worker / Camille Williamson; title: On becoming an academic profession / Dana Fusco; title: Preparing the next generation of professoriate in youth studies : mapping the contested spaces / Ross VeLure Roholt and Michael Baizerman; title: Youth development network : a site for the professional development of youth workers / Jacqueline Davis-Manigaulte; title: Contexts of youth work; title: Youth work practice in england / Helen Jones; title: Youth work as engagement / Ross VeLure Roholt and Judie Cutler; title: Youth work across two diverse domains of practice / Jim Sibthorp, M. Deborah Bialeschki, Carol Stuart and Jack Phelan; title: A community education approach to youth work education / Joel Nitzberg; title: Conclusion; title: Advancing youth work : opportunities and challenges / Jane Quinn; title: Framing trends, posing questions / Dana Fusco.