1st Edition
Caring on the Streets A Study of Detached Youthworkers
By Jacqueline K Thompson
Copyright 2000
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
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They're fighting for our kids, and the battleground is the street! In 1956, the Boston Special Youth Project defined the field of detached youthwork this way: “Detached work involves intensive contact with a corner-group where the worker meets the teen-age group in their natural environment. By close association with them and getting to know their needs as a group and as individuals, the... Read more
- Forward
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter I: Introduction
- Chapter II: The Literature--What Have Others Taught Us?
- Chapter III: Methodology--How Did We Do It?
- Chapter IV: Results--What Do We Know?
- Chapter V: Discussion--What Does It Mean?
- Chapter VI: Conclusions and Implications --Where Do We Go from Here?
- References
- Appendix A: Structured Interview
- Appendix B: Consent Form
- Appendix C: Sample Interview
- Appendix D: Seventeen Analytic Themes
- Appendix E: Reproduction of One Theme: What Is a Youthwork Stance?
- Index
Biography
Jacqueline K Thompson
