Mark K. Smith specializes in the field of informal education and community
learning. He is the Rank Research Fellow and Tutor at YMCA George Williams
College, London and has been a Visiting Professor in Community Education,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Among his books are Creators not
Consumers (1982),
Developing Youth Work (1988), Local Education (1994), Informal
Education (1996, 1999, 2005 with Tony Jeffs), The Art of Helping Others
(2008, written with Heather Smith) and Youth Work Practice
(forthcoming, edited with Tony Jeffs). He is currently working with the Rank
Foundation on an rolling evaluation of their Youth
or Adult? Initiative and on two new initiatives around community
development and the needs of young carers.
Mark K. Smith has worked as a careers officer, youth and community worker, and project worker. He studied economics and politics at the University of Lancaster, and did his doctorate in the philosophy of education at the University of London.
YMCA George Williams College, 199 Freemasons Road, Canning Town, London E16 3PY, United Kingdom. Telephone 020 7540 4929; Fax 020 7511 4900; Minicom 020 7511 4901. Direct line/voice mail: 020 7540 4929. E-mail: smith@infed.org
