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Pear Reviewed Journal articles on the teaching of Youth and Community Work

Seal, M., Anastasio, J., Andersson, Å., Araste, L., Archilleos, J., Bardy, H., & Hughes, G. (2019). Teaching Youth Work in Higher Education. Tensions, Connections, Continuities and Contradictions. © University of Tartu (Estonia), Newman University (UK), Humak University of Applied Sciences (Finland) and Estonian Association of Youth Workers. https://www.humak.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-01-Teaching-Youth-Work-in-Higher-Education_web.pdf

Corney, T. (2019). 12 Teaching Youth Work in Australia – Values based education and the threat of Neoliberalism. In M Seal (ed) Teaching youth work in higher education. University of Tartu, Estonia. https://www.humak.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-01-Teaching-Youth-Work-in-Higher-Education_web.pdf

Corney, T., & Broadbent, R. (2007). Youth Work Training Package Review: More of the Same or Radical Rationalisation? Youth Studies Australia, 26(3), 36-43. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328335975_Youth_Work_Training_Package_Review_More_of_the_same_or_radical_rationalisation

Corney, T. (2004). Values versus competencies: Implications for the future of professional youth work education. Journal of Youth Studies, 7(4), 513-527. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1367626042000315257

Maunders, D., & Corney, T. (2021). Professional Education for youth work: An expanding field. In (2nd Ed) T. Corney (Ed) Professional Youth Work: An Australian perspective. YNOT – The Youth Affairs Network of Tasmania. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42876/1/Corney%20T%20%282021%29%20Professional%20Youth%20Work.%20An%20Australian%20Perspective%20%282nd%20edn%29.pdf

Bloxham, S., & Heathfield, M. (1995). Rejecting the theory/practice dichotomy in youth and community work training. Youth and Policy, 50 (Autumn), 35-48. https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/576/1/Bloxham_RejectingThe.pdf

Youth work and Community work

Corney, T., Williamson, H., Holdsworth, R., Broadbent, R., Ellis, K., Shier, H., & Cooper, T. (2020). Approaches to youth participation in youth and community work practice: a critical dialogue. Youth Workers Association. https://www.ywa.org.au/resources/Documents/Resources/Final_Approaches-to-Youth-Participation-in-Youth-and-Community-Work-Practice-A-Critical-Dialogue.pdf

Corney, T. (2009). Participation and empowerment: Is youth work a form of community development? Commonwealth Youth and Development, 7(2), 2-10. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342764272_PARTICIPATION_AND_EMPOWERMENT_Is_youth_work_a_form_of_community_development

Corney, T. (2004) Youth Work and Community Development – Kissing Cousins or Comrades in Arms. New Community Quarterly, 2 (3). pp. 17-20.

Coburn, A., & Gormally, S. (2017). Communities for social change: Practicing equality and social justice in youth and community contexts. Peter Lang. https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/publications/communities-for-social-change-practicing-equality-and-social-just

Parkin, C., & Buchroth, I. (2010). Using theory in youth and community work practice. Youth and Community Work Practice, 1-160. https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/4913891

Teaching Resources for Youth and Community Work

European Academy on Youth Work https://www.eayw.net/

Higher Education in Youth Work – Finland https://youth-work-hei.humak.fi/

Focus Learning in Youth Work – https://focus-learning.eu/chap1

Youth Work and You – 7 Youth Work Training Modules https://www.youthworkandyou.org/sources-and-resources/

Ethics & Standards in Teaching Youth and Community Work

National Youth Council of Ireland – https://www.youth.ie/resources/

Commonwealth Youth Programme, Code of Ethical Practice for Youth Work https://youthworkalliance.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/draft-international-code-of-ethical-practice-2014_v1.pdf

YACVic Youth Sector Code of Ethical Practice https://www.yacvic.org.au/assets/Uploads/The-Code-of-Ethical-Practice.pdf

Teaching Youth and Community Work

Cooper, T., & Scriven, R. (2017). Communities of inquiry in curriculum approach to online learning: Strengths and limitations in context. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 33(4). https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/3026

Love, T., & Cooper, T. (2004). Designing online information systems for portfolio-based assessment: Design criteria and heuristics. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 3(1), 65-81. https://jite.org/documents/Vol3/v3p065-081-127.pdf

Cooper, T. (2017). Curriculum Renewal: Barriers to Successful Curriculum Change and Suggestions for Improvement. Journal of Education and Training Studies, 5(11), 115-128. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1161219.pdf

Cooper, T. (2019). Calling out ‘alternative facts’: curriculum to develop students’ capacity to engage critically with contradictory sources. Teaching in Higher Education, 24(3), 444-459. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13562517.2019.1566220

Cooper, T., Bessant, J., Broadbent, R., Couch, J., Edwards, K., Jarvis, J., & Ferguson, C. (2014). Australian youth work education: Curriculum renewal and a model for sustainability for niche professions. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3334&context=ecuworkspost2013

Daley, K. (2012). Gathering sensitive stories: Using care theory to guide ethical decision-making in research interviews with young people. Youth Studies Australia, 31(3), 27-34.

Couch, J. (2017). We are what we teach: Teaching youth work on the Thai-Burma border. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 2(1), 5-17. https://search.informit.org/doi/pdf/10.3316/informit.026432944250848

Youth and Community Work practice

Cooper, T. (2012). Models of youth work: a framework for positive sceptical reflection. Youth and Policy 1. (109) pp.98-117 https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1709&context=ecuworks2012

Godden, N. J., Farrant, B. M., Yallup Farrant, J., Heyink, E., Carot Collins, E., Burgemeister, B., … & Cooper, T. (2021). Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 57(11), 1759-1764. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jpc.15649

O’Keeffe, P., Johnson, B., & Daley, K. (2022). Continuing the precedent: Financially disadvantaging young people in” unprecedented” COVID‐19 times. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 57(1), 70-87. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8013612/

Couch, J. (2018). Together we walk: The importance of relationship in youth work with refugee young people. In Sage (Vol. 213, pp. 213-227). https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8882w/together-we-walk-the-importance-of-relationship-in-youth-work-with-refugee-young-people