TY - CHAP
T1 - Youth work
T2 - the professionalisation dilemma
AU - Sercombe, Howard
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Youth work is both a very old practice and a very new one. While its beginnings stretch back to the child-saver movements of the last century (Ewen 1983), it is only in the past 25 years that youth work in Australia has really moved beyond a volunteer movement with a principal interest in young people’s moral (and sometimes physical) hygiene. For the last 15 of those years, the debate on what youth work is, or perhaps what youth work isn’t, has ebbed and flowed. An important part of that debate is the question of whether youth work should see itself as a profession, with the attendant disciplines of a code of ethics, mandatory training, professional registration (and deregistration), a professional association and more.
AB - Youth work is both a very old practice and a very new one. While its beginnings stretch back to the child-saver movements of the last century (Ewen 1983), it is only in the past 25 years that youth work in Australia has really moved beyond a volunteer movement with a principal interest in young people’s moral (and sometimes physical) hygiene. For the last 15 of those years, the debate on what youth work is, or perhaps what youth work isn’t, has ebbed and flowed. An important part of that debate is the question of whether youth work should see itself as a profession, with the attendant disciplines of a code of ethics, mandatory training, professional registration (and deregistration), a professional association and more.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781875236619
T3 - Doing Youth Work in Australia
SP - 117
EP - 128
BT - Concepts and Methods of Youth Work
A2 - White, Rob
PB - Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
CY - Hobart, Tas.
ER -