Values and Australian youth work education: the implications for competency-based training and the professional status of youth work

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Corney, Tim ORCID: 0000-0002-1980-6835 (2004) Values and Australian youth work education: the implications for competency-based training and the professional status of youth work. Commonwealth Youth and Development, 2 (1). pp. 5-26. ISSN 1727-7140

Abstract

The research presented in this article is a study of the values underpinning the curriculum and teaching of current Australian degree-level youth work courses. The article looks at the implications that values raise for the introduction of competency-based training in the youth and community services sector. The article raises some of the potential risks for the status of youth work as a profession. The research investigates values in professional youth work education by using a qualitative, interpretative framework of inquiry and a strategy of purposeful case study sampling and literature review. The data collection involved four case studies focusing on degree-level youth work courses in four universities in three states of Australia. To facilitate the triangulation of data, a number of sources were used: students, lecturers, curriculum designers, curriculum documents and sector literature.

Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/24902
Official URL http://reference.sabinet.co.za/document/EJC30834
Subjects Historical > FOR Classification > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
Historical > FOR Classification > 1608 Sociology
Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > College of Education
Keywords youth work, curriculum, competency-based training, community services, youth work education
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