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At a time of heightened interest and concern over young people in our communities, how various agencies and professions work with them, is under scrutiny and attack. Ord suggests that: Youth work cannot defend itself against erroneous and rival conceptions of practice unless it can sufficiently articulate its own. Through providing a framework for the creation of authentic curricula for youth work...this book offers one of the means by which individual workers, services and the profession as a whole can promote its unique educational practice. He continues: This is not a pessimistic book...It is critical and points out weaknesses...but its primary purpose is to offer solutions. As Bernard Davies points out, this does not make it 'a hints-and-tips manual: far from it, [as] its prescriptions are contextualised in a wider discourse on, in particular, educational theory and practice...Jon Ord, head-on, systematically confronts the historic and current controversies, not least by engaging critically with some of youth work's academic and policy-making big hitters.' Ord marshals evidence from youth work and draws on a wide, authoritative literature from philosophy, educational psychology, sociology, management and politics. Crucially, he presents and reviews material from recent local authority curriculum documents, in a way that has not been done before.

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Jon Ord is currently a senior lecturer in youth & community work, at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth. He has extensive experience of youth work having worked in a variety of settings, in both voluntary and statutory services since the mid 80's. The majority of this experience has been in face to face work, but he has also worked as both a trainer and youth services manager. He can be contacted on jord@marjon.ac.uk.

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