Youth Work Process, Product and Practice

Introduction Part 1: Curriculum Theory & Practice 1.The Emergence of the Youth Work Curriculum 2.The Meaning of Curriculum in Youth Work 3.Curriculum as Content 4.Curriculum as Product 5.Curriculum as Process: Young Person-Centred Experience 6.Curriculum as Process: Principles of Procedure and Curriculum as Development 7.Objections to the Youth Work Curriculum Part 2: Essential Elements of Curriculum 8.Values and Judgement 9.Participation, Power and Empowerment 10.Relationships and Group Work 11.Choice and Voluntary Participation 12.Experiential Learning not ‘Plan, Do, Review’ 13.On Methods of Youth Work Part 3: On the Process of Youth Work 14.The Problem of Outcomes 15.On Time, Measurability and Complexity 16.Process, Causality and Phronesis 17.Curriculum, Accountability and the Management of Youth Work Part 4: Policy & Practice 18.The Policy Context of Youth Work 19.New Labour and the Legacy of Transforming Youth Work 20.The Continuing Impact of Every Child Matters 21.14 Years of Conservative Government: Austerity, Cuts and the Defence of Youth Work 22.Curriculum in a National Context: Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland 23.Developments of Curriculum in a National Context: England, Sweden and across Europe 24.Democratic Developments of the Youth Work Curriculum: Finland Part 5: Curriculum in Context 25.The Uses of the Youth Work Curriculum 26.Theories of Youth Work: Social Education and Informal Education 27.The Contested Concept of Youth in Youth Work 28.Curriculum in its Social and Structural Context: Towards a Critical Youth Work curriculum