Critical Issues in Youth Work Management

ISBN-13: 9780415594356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 184 str.

Jon Ord

Opis

This textbook communicates the complexities and controversies at the heart of youth work management, exploring key issues in a critical fashion. Written by a team of experienced youth work lecturers, the chapters cover topics such as planning, evaluation, and supervision.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: The Context of Youth Work Management  1. From Advice to Management: The Arrival of Youth Workers’ Accountability  2. The Neo-Liberal Policy Context of Youth Work Management  3. ‘Theories’ of Youth Work Management  Part 2: Critical Issues in the Practice of Youth Work Management  4. On Managerial Discourses, Cultures and Structures  5. Are Youth Work Leaders Free to Lead? An Exploration of the Policy Constraints  6. Planning: For Opportunities Not Outcomes  7. Evaluation: Ensuring Accountability or Improving Practice?  8. Re-Balancing Supervision 9. Managing Centre-based Youth Work  10. Towards an ‘Intelligence-based’ Approach to Detached Youth Work Management  Part 3: The Settings of Youth Work Management  11. Managing Youth Work in Integrated Services  12. The Management of Faith-based Youth Work  13. Managing in the Voluntary Sector: The Particular Challenges of Managerialism

O autorze

Jon Ord is Reader in Youth and Community Work at UCP Marjon, Plymouth, UK.  He has worked as a youth worker for twenty years, and is the author of Youth Work Process, Product and Practice, as well as a number of articles concerning the theory and practice of youth work.