Find below the challenging and wide-ranging programme for a British Educational Research Association Youth Studies seminar, Youth Work in Challenging Times for Young People.
BERA Youth Studies SIG Seminar
Youth Work in Challenging Times for Young People
University of East London, 11th July 2011
10.15 Arrival coffee and tea
10.20 Welcome and Introduction
10.30 Paper 1 Janet Batsleer
Manchester Metropolitan University
Youth Work Prospects: Back to the Future?
11.00 Paper 2 Martin Allan
Radicaled
Why young people can’t get the jobs they want?
And, what can be done about it?
11.30 Paper 3 Paul Adams
University of East London
Global Youth Work in the Current Climate
12.00 Paper 4 Saqib Butt
University of East London
Can Youth Work Subvert Extremist Narratives?
12.30 Buffet Lunch / Networking / Posters
1.30 Paper 5 Jon Ord
University College Marjon – Plymouth
The Rise & (Fall?) of Managerialism in Youth Work
2.00 Paper 6 Graeme Tiffany
Institute of Education
Explaining the difference we make: an eternal paradox?
2.30 Paper 7 Michael Whelan
Brunel University
The role of youth workers in tackling street violence amongst young men in the UK- what the evidence says.
3.00 Tea & Coffee
3.15 Roundtable discussion
4.15 End of the seminar
IN DEFENCE OF YOUTH WORK 