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YSED600 Principles of Effective Youth Work

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester in a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches.

This unit introduces students to the variety of fields, organisations and principles of youth work, teaching and more broadly human services. Particular attention is given to the practical considerations of making positive change. It, also sets out to establish the possible rationales for interventions into young peoples lives, to examine the legitimations typically deployed and the validity of any/or all of those rationales. This unit involves a mapping exercise in which students establish a framework for identifying different types of practice when working with young people, the sites in which such work takes place and some of the main contemporary issues facing workers. It will develop a framework that assists students to begin to develop principles for effective practice. The relationship between the capacity to critically reflect on practice issues, to develop sustainable and effective forms of practice and relate both capacities to ethically responsible practice is central to this unit.

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