Brings together a range of issues and themes, and also the challenges that face those who work with young people.

Introduction: The changing context of work with young people
Introduction: The changing context of work with young people - Jason Wood and Jean Hine
Part One: Theory and Practice
Changing Conceptions of Youth in Late Modernity - Alan France
Young People's Lives: Taking a different view - Jean Hine
Globalisation and Global Youth Work - Jo Aubrey
Ethics and Values in Work with Young People - Sarah Banks
Anti-Oppressive Practice - agdish Chouhan
Educating Youth: Assimilation and the democratic alternative - Derrick Armstrong
Social Capital and Young People - Thilo Boeck
Community Youth Development - Daniel F. Perkins
Young People and Research Participation - Jennie Fleming and Nicky Hudson
Part Two: Policy and Practice
European Youth Policy and the Place of the United Kingdom - Howard Williamson
Education for Effective Citizenship - Jason Wood
Risk, Social Policy and Young People - Hazel Kemshall
Youth Justice: moving in an anti-social direction - Joe Yates
Good Practice in Guidance: Lessons from Connexions - Scott Yates
Youth Work and the Youth Service - Bernard Davies
Youth Work and the Voluntary Sector - Tom Wylie
Modern Youth Work: Purity or common cause? - Malcolm Payne
Managing the Tensions - Mary Tyler
Working with Young People: Emergent themes - Jean Hine and Jason Wood
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