Youth worker education in Europe
Policies, structures, practices
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Youth worker education in Europe
Policies, structures, practices
About this book
Youth work, coupled with effective government policies, is invaluable in ensuring that young people are given the opportunity to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need for civic engagement and social action.Youth work is experiencing a policy momentum at European level. Since the adoption of a resolution on the subject by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2017, youth work is back on the core agenda of the Council of Europe and the European Union youth strategies.
This book looks at how youth work practitioners learn their trade, what formal and non-formal education offers exist and how education iscontextualised in the broader picture of youth work recognition. Starting with the premise that formal education entails a series of steps from which youth work practitioners would benefit, this books explores that picture through a mapping study and delves further into its findings through thematic contributions.
The results of the research and debates with policy makers, researchers, practitioners, educators and other stakeholders identifies a field of growing opportunities across Europe. The situation of youth workers in different countries varies from advanced practice architectures for youth worker education to those in need of development. Youth worker education, however, is not only about the education and training offers, it is also about financial and organisational resources, legislation, support systems, competence frameworks, quality standards, ethical frameworks and guidance. This book aims to support youth work so that it becomes more visible and evolves into a recognised field of practice among other occupations and professions engaging with young people.
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Table of contents
- Chapter 1 – Introduction: education, learning and practice of youth work under the lens
- Chapter 2 – Mapping the educational and career paths of youth workers
- Chapter 3 – Diversity of practice architectures: education and career paths for youth workers
- Chapter 4 – What do you see? A look at youth work through the prism of sociology of occupations
- Chapter 5 – Ethical standards in youth work and how they support the development of education and career pathways of youth workers
- Chapter 6 – Mapping youth studies curricula: what is formal education in the field of youth studies saying about young people?
- Chapter 7 – Early career perspectives on the educational pathways of youth workers
- Chapter 8 – Youth workers’ competences and learning in non-formal training
- Chapter 9 – Associations, networks and support for youth workers in Europe
- Chapter 10 – Toward professionalisation? Youth worker as an occupation in Europe
- Contributors