Narrative Approaches to Youth Work: Conversational Skills for a Critical Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138091429 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 162 str.

Julie Tilsen

Opis

This book blends theoretical concepts and practical skills to deepen and improve youth work practices, with a focus on conversation and reflexive practice.

Spis treści

Foreword Jennifer White. Introduction: Matching Your Practice with Your Intentions Section One: Philosophical Groundwork for Relationally Engaged Youth Work 1. Where You Coming From?: A Philosophy for the Practice of Youth Work 2. Power to the People: Positioning and Author-ity 3. Response-Ability: Relational Ethics and an Ethic of Care Section Two: From Philosophical Groundwork to Praxis 4. That’s a Good Story: Conversations that Do Things 5. Can You Hear Me Now?: Listening, Really Listening 6. Do Ya Feel Me?: Understanding the Other 7. I’m Not Telling, I’m Asking: The Art and Craft of Curiosity 8. You Got a Problem?: Language for Problems and Protests 9. Turn It Up: Making Meaning of Pop Culture Section Three: The Personal and Political Labor of a Youth Worker 10. Lemme Work On That: Cultivating a Reflexive and Reflective Practice 11. Fight the System: Critical and Political Conversations Beyond the Drop-in, Rec Center, and Squat

O autorze

Julie Tilsen, PhD, provides training and consultation for youth-serving agencies and teaches in the Youth Studies program at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth: Transcending Homonormativity and Constructing Preferred Identities. Julie’s work is featured in several professional training videos.