Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Case for Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People in Education and Youth Work

   • Charlie Cooper, Sinéad Gormally, Gill Hughes

   Pages 1-16

3. Challenging the Order of Things: Independent Working-Class Education as a Model for Contemporary Praxis

   • John Grayson

   Pages 17-38

4. Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education

   • Charlie Cooper

   Pages 39-64

5. Emancipatory Praxis: A Social-Justice Approach to Equality Work

   • Annette Coburn, Sinéad Gormally

   Pages 65-84

6. Social Justice and Social Pedagogy

   • Pat Petrie

   Pages 85-106

7. Alternative Provision Free Schools: Educational Fireworks or Sparks of Optimism for Excluded Young People?

   • Max A. Hope

   Pages 107-126

8. In Pursuit of a Common Values Base for Working with Young People in Formal, Informal and Social Learning

   • Julie Rippingale

   Pages 127-144

9. Feminist Agendas in Informal Education

   • Janet Batsleer

   Pages 145-168

10. ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Young People

    • Momodou Sallah, Richard Kennedy

    Pages 169-194

11. Inclusive and Accessible Citizenry: Making Spaces for Working with Young People with (Dis)abilities

    • Susan Cullen

    Pages 195-219

12. ‘Imagining Otherwise’ or Tinkering with the System?

    • Gill Hughes

    Pages 220-244

13. Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People in Education and Youth Work

    • Charlie Cooper, Sinéad Gormally, Gill Hughes

    Pages 245-264

14. Back Matter

    Pages 265-271

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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 help build a more equal, socially-just society.

• Disconnection
• utopian studies
• youth work
• education
• social justice
• critical pedagogy
• alternative education
• community studies
• higher education
• social pedagogy
• youth
• childhood studies

"This text is easy to read and brings together diverse perspectives on youth work, related work with young people, and histories of young people' involvement in social action. The authors draw out the relevance of each account to contemporary events, and future possibilities. It is rare to find a text written by multiple authors that maintains a common thread, but still enables each author to find their own voice." - Trudi Cooper, Edith Cowan University, Australia

• University of Hull, UK

  Sinéad Gormally, Gill Hughes

Janet Batsleer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Annette Coburn, University of West Scotland, UK Susan Cullen, University of Lincoln, UK John Grayson, independent researcher Max A. Hope, University of Hull, UK Rik Kennedy, De Montfort University, UK Pat Petrie, UCL Institute of Education, UK Julie Rippingale, University of Hull, UK Momodou Sallah, De Montfort University, UK

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