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Developing Youth Work <\/i>(1988) was an attempt to construct a coherent and distinctive understanding of youth work. It looked to informal education and association (mutual aid) as the core of the work, and argued that the youth service was in terminal decline. We publish the complete book.<\/h2>\n

Contents<\/h3>\n

preface<\/a><\/h4>\n

introduction<\/a><\/h4>\n

chapter 1: enter youth workers<\/a><\/h4>\n

chapter 2: the making of popular youth work<\/a><\/h4>\n

chapter 3: definition, tradition and change in youth work<\/a><\/h4>\n

chapter 4: the demise of the youth service<\/a><\/h4>\n

chapter 5: beyond social education<\/a><\/h4>\n

chapter 6: good purpose<\/a><\/h4>\n

chapter 7: informal education<\/a><\/h4>\n

chapter 8: developing popular practice<\/a><\/h4>\n

bibliography<\/a><\/h4>\n

\u00a9 Mark Smith 1988<\/p>\n

Reproduced from Developing Youth Work. Informal education, mutual aid and popular practice<\/i>, Milton: Keynes: Open University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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