| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Girls in the modern world -- Autonomy and relationship -- Empowerment? -- Infomal learning and feminist pedagogies -- Sexuality -- Poverty and motherhood -- Independence and dependency -- Violence -- Community culture and identity -- Feminist youth work in community settings and professional formation -- Established patterns, new directions -- Afterword -- Appendix one: Every girl matters! -- Appendix two: Pearl Jephcott questionnaire -- References -- Index. |
| Summary |
Addressing the significant shifts in the social, political and professional context for informal education, this book makes clear the continuities in community-based informal education with girls and argues for its continuing importance. The impact of neo-liberal approaches to empowerment is highlighted throughout. Drawing together historical, theoretical and practice-based work, including case studies from a range of projects, Batsleer offers an analysis of the significant issues that will affect practice in the future and the significance of feminist inspired informal education rooted in spe. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Youth workers -- Great Britain.
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Youth workers. |
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Great Britain. |
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Girls -- Services for -- Great Britain.
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Girls -- Services for. |
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Girls. |
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Non-formal education -- Great Britain.
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Non-formal education. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Girls. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Batsleer, Janet. Youth working with girls and women in community settings. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2013 9781409425793 (DLC) 2012029644 (OCoLC)805892339 |
| ISBN |
9781409425809 (e-book-pdf) |
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1409425800 (e-book-pdf) |
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9781472400048 (e-book-ePub) |
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1472400046 (e-book-ePub) |
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9781283859578 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283859572 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781409425793 |
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1409425797 |
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