Catrin Davies

Chuck Lukacs - fantasy genesis Generator (Art Book)

Ideally, youth workers will facilitate and/or use models of participation that are developed by and/or with young people for use by them and with them, assisting youth workers to include young people in the organisational processes of doing youth work, rather than only as a way of measuring how involved young people are in the decision-making of an... See more

For youth workers to remain consistent in their practice while promoting youth participation, they will need to reflect on and incorporate the key principles of youth work, such as voluntary participation, anti-oppressive practice and contextualisation (Batsleer & Davies 2010; Corney 2014a, 2014b; Ord 2007; Sapin 2013), in order to be sensitive... See more

In most countries young people under the age of majority are ‘disenfranchised’, that is to say, they have limited opportunities to engage with the political process and governance structures of their country, state or province by virtue of their age and thus are often excluded from political and civic decision-making (Corney 2004, 2014a, 2014b; Far... See more

consultation is not participation

Maunders (1984, 1990, 2009) and Smith (1988) drew on the Gramscian notion of hegemony and its influence on youth work as a counter-hegemonic practice, further developed by Chouhan (2009) and Beck and Purcell (2010). This conceptualisation of youth work sees the youth worker acting as an ‘organic intellectual’ (Gramsci 1971; see also Chouhan 2009; C... See more

This emancipatory, educational concept of youth work draws directly on the critical pedagogy of Freire (1972) and his use of dialogue. These ideas are consistent with the concept of critical dialogue (Freire 1972). This entails the proposing of provocative questions and reflecting on them critically, enabling the responses to challenge and inform f... See more