I realise the amount of posts up here have been a bit sparse recently. Sorry about that! It’s mainly due to the amount of writing I’ve got to finish for various things. I will get back to proper blogging soon.
In the meantime, here’s a quick post to point out the London workshop around ‘In Defence of Youth Work’. I posted about the ‘in defence’ campaign here and you can follow their new blog here to keep updated on what is happening.
Essentially, ‘In Defence’ is a call to arms against the change in direction that youth work has taken over the past thirty years with a recognition that we need to get back to the original values of the discipline:
Thirty years ago Youth Work aspired to a special relationship with young people. It wanted to meet young women and men on their terms. It claimed to be ‘on their side’. Three decades later Youth Work is close to abandoning this distinctive commitment. Today it accepts the State’s terms. It sides with the State’s agenda. Perhaps we exaggerate, but a profound change has taken place.
The first regional workshop to discuss the campaign takes place in London on Tuesday 19th May 2009 at Goldsmiths University. Full details below:
IN DEFENCE OF YOUTH WORK
TUESDAY 19TH MAY 2009
12 NOON TO 3PM
ROOM 306 of RH Building (main building)
GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,
LEWISHAM WAY, NEW CROSS, LONDON SE14 6NW
Nearest train stations: New Cross and New Cross Gate
For location: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/There are plenty of places to buy lunch in and around the college. If you are planning to attend, please email k.shukra@gold.ac.uk or s.e.robertson@chi.ac.uk
I’ll see you there!
2 responses to “In Defence of Youth Work Workshop”
Dear Collegues in Europe, It is good tha you have joined hands to defend youth work. Here in Africa, inparticular Zambia where iam writing from, the journey seem impossible. Youth wrkers themseves are suscipious abouth the agenda of rofessionalising youth work. Worse still we do not have a youth work policy, consequently no defination of youth work, youth worker and methods.
What i would like to urge collegues is that youth work is already a proession and need just to defend it!
Dear Collegues in Europe, It is good tha you have joined hands to defend youth work. Here in Africa, inparticular Zambia where iam writing from, the journey seem impossible. Youth wrkers themseves are suscipious abouth the agenda of rofessionalising youth work. Worse still we do not have a youth work policy, consequently no defination of youth work, youth worker and methods.
What i would like to urge collegues is that youth work is already a proession and need just to defend it!