| Subject: | [YouthGAS_Exchange] Youth work: Challenging the soft cop syndrome, values, professionalisation and more | | Date: | Thursday, December 2, 2004 12:44:43 (+1100) | | From: | Anne Hugo <anne.hugo @........au>
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*Youth work
– special focus edition of Youth Studies Australia
*"We are very pleased to finish off the year with five papers on youth
work -- a topic that doesn't get as much coverage as it deserves. It is
rare to have this number of peer-reviewed articles on youth work under
one cover, and the contributors to this issue represent an unusually
wide range of Australian voices on the subject.
So writes Sheila Allison, editor Youth Studies Australia, in her
editorial for the December issue of the journal, due to hit the streets
shortly. In the meantime, a summary of these articles is online at:
http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/ysa/contents/volume23-4.htm
Article titles:
* YOUTH WORK: The problem of values
* YOUTH WORK: The professionalisation dilemma
* YOUTH WORK: The Loch Ness monster and professionalism
* YOUTH WORK: Has it reached its use-by date?
* YOUTH WORK: Challenging the soft cop syndrome
* Teenage employability: Views of employers
* The Marrickville Mural: Raising awareness of Hepatitis C prevention
The journal is the heart of this clearinghouse, and we hope that
Youthgas people know about it and appreciate it.
A handy one-page flyer about this edition, if you wanted to use it in
some way to tell others about this issue, is at:
http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/ysa/pdfs/ysa-dec04.pdf (134kb PDF)
Each issue of the journal also contains summaries of the past three
months' worth of newspaper reports that featured youth (Youth monitor
col.) as well as abstracts of other journals' articles on youth that we
feel would be of interest to an Australian audience. It also has reviews
of new books and reports, kits and resources relevant to youth
studies/youth work.
Knowing this online community as I do, I think everyone would find
something of benefit in the journal -- our readership includes students,
educators, youth workers as well as educators and academics, and those
involved in youth issues including policy-makers.
We'd value your readership and support. Next year the journal will be in
its 25th vol. and until a few years ago it was the only journal of its
kind in the world. It's kept going under a variety of governments and
policy frameworks and you can subscribe to the journal (or get your
uni/TAFE/school library to subscribe) for $55 per annum. That's cheaper
than most journals of its kind. Please see: http://www.acys.utas.edu.au
or ring us for details: (03) 6226 2591.
If you are still reading -- thank you if you are -- please note that the
Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies' special offers on books and
theme packs are still available.
Those who are studying youth studies or youth work, or
lecturing/teaching a youth work course: Now is the time to ask your
friendly university or TAFE library if they have enough copies of ACYS
books on youth studies to go round -- some indeed might have some
unspent money in their budgets at this time of year. Our downloadable
order form is at: http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/pubs/acys-books.pdf
Thanks for your time. Best wishes to all.
Anne
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