Youth Work in a Warm Climate

Navigating Good Practice in Australia Under Neoliberalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12901811
AutoresKathy Edwards (0000-0002-1058-0032, RMIT University, autor de correspondencia), Patrick O’keeffe (0000-0002-8961-1726, RMIT University)
Año2024
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas164-176
Fecha de publicación2024-04-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17496535.2024.2352371
OpenAlexW4398138085
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas16

We write as Australian youth work educators. We consider some of the ethical challenges involved in teaching youth work 'in a warm climate', situated in the diaspora of English youth work but where youth work also has a uniquely Australian character, placing us in an ethically liminal space in our teaching between an understanding of youth work that is robustly defended as being both 'good' and 'true', and what we do, which is different from this, and has its own character and strengths. We situate this in the policy history of youth work in Australia, particularly in the 'neoliberal turn' that this has taken in the last four decades which has created ethical challenges for us, just as it has for those elsewhere. Two guiding questions shape this paper. The first is, given our differences, what challenges do we face in maintaining connections with 'good' youth work and its value base as traditionally defined and defended in England, and relatedly, given that policy and funding regimes in the UK seem to be aligning more with an Australian model, is there anything that the youth work community in the UK can learn from the Australian experience

Climate change · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · Youth work · Education Systems and Policy · Engineering · Social Work Education and Practice · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Geology · Oceanography