Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice
Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to
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Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People Edited by
Charlie Cooper, Sinéad Gormally and Gill Hughes
Selection and editorial matter © Charlie Cooper, Sinéad Gormally and Gill Hughes 2015 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2015
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ISBN 978-1-349-57284-7 ISBN 978-1-137-39359-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-39359-3 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Socially just radical alternatives for education and youth work practice : re-imagining ways of working with young people / edited by Charlie Cooper, Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Hull, UK; Sinéad Gormally, Lecturer, University of Hull; Gill Hughes, Programme Director, University of Hull. pages cm Summary: “Challenging dominant neoliberal discourses about ways of working with ‘disconnected’ young people, this book sets out ideas for generating radically different ways of thinking about such practices. Drawing on contemporary and historical material, the book argues that alternative approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society. The book achieves this by re-imagining – with the aid of utopian studies – how formal and informal ways of working with young peop
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