Formally Informal: Youth and Community Work: Pedagogy and Practice

A special issue of Youth (ISSN 2673-995X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2024 | Viewed by 91

Special Issue Editors


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Guest Editor
Department of Social Work, Care and Community, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4BU, UK
Interests: sexualities and sexual health; gender politics and diversity; parenting, and education for equality with young people, children and the professionals who work with them
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Centre for Research into the Education of Marginalised Children and Young Adults, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK
Interests: youth and community work; participatory research and co-production; the scholarship of pedagogy in higher education; specialising in critical and queer pedagogy

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Co-Guest Editor
College of Health, Psychology and Social Care, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby DE22 1GB, UK
Interests: social inequalities; migration; concepts of intelligence; successful student placements; professional maturity; academic snobbery; impact of youth work practice

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Youth and community work training is constantly changing to meet the changes in practice, philosophy, and approaches, although some aspects of training future professionals have remained constant over the years. This Special edition seeks to explore, challenge, and debate the role of training providers in developing future practitioners, exploring how we manage an active relationship with quality label providers, government institutions, and higher education establishments while ensuring that those youth and community work seek to serve are equally important and involved in the process. Proposed and invited papers will embrace a breadth of learning, practice, and research activity related to three continuing contemporary themes exploring the following:

  1. Pedagogy: what pedagogic approaches are needed to develop future practitioners of youth and community work, i.e., its challenges, opportunities and future possibilities.
  2. Community: how people have built communities, including communities of practice.
  3. Practice: how meaningful collaborations have been developed with the embedded involvement of young people and communities.

Prof. Dr. Pam Alldred
Prof. Dr. Mike Seal
Simon Williams
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Youth is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • youth work
  • informal education
  • pedagogy
  • community engagement
  • higher education

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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