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three views of
transforming youth work from the bulletin board last week
I feel that youth work is being transformed into something I
no-longer know or like.
 We
are Youthwork. It's not the fieldworkers who are losing the plot. We
know why we do the the job, we know we are good at the job and we also
know that young people benefit from interaction with us in an "INFORMAL"
way. It is, whatever Tom Wylie might disagree with, greater social
control by stealth. Keep the faith.
I think that the title of the document 'transforming
youth work' is sadly indicative and prophetic as to what is going
on... As
its processes are a definitive move away from the basis of informal
education, a service will be created that will no longer be able to
reach those outside of it as they will self select not to be
somewhere that is increasingly like school and therein lies the
hidden danger. Youth work will cease to be a distinct methodology,
working on the fringes of society and will steadily be accreted into
mainstream services and disappear. Not that I'm horribly depressed
about that because it means that something new will arise in society
to cope with that which is outside of it's norms...
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