In a different mindset: Critical youth work with marginalized youth

Maya Lavie-Ajayi and Michal Krumer-Nevo

Children and Youth Services Review, 2013, vol. 35, issue 10, 1698-1704

Abstract: Critical youth work is based on a dual focus, on individual psychosocial development on the one hand, and collective critical consciousness and the promotion of social justice on the other. Although in practice, critical youth work is gaining popularity as an alternative to person-centered youth work, the theoretical and empirical literature has not kept pace. This paper proposes a theory based practice model that expands the vocabulary of critical youth work. The model is grounded in the work of an innovative Israeli intervention program for marginalized youth and in poststructuralist theories. The model comprised of a three dimensions: the streets as a physical and political place, the use of counter narrative, and the role the youth workers take as social capital agents.

Keywords: Youth work; Marginalized youth; Critical theory; Detached work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.07.010

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