Educating Informal Educators

Alldred, Pam; Howard, Frances

doi:10.3390/educsci12050301

Education Sciences

2022

DOI: 10.3390/educsci12050301

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Educating Informal Educators

Pam Alldred¹,

Frances Howard²

Abstract: As Youth and Community Work courses in Higher Education dwindle across the UK, following years of austerity and cuts to Youth Services, the diverse pedagogies of informal education are more needed than ever [...]

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“Making It Remarkable”: Teaching Professional Youth Work Values in a UK Higher Education Institution

Purcell,

Cantali,

Colville

2024

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This paper reports on the findings of a study exploring the role of values in professional qualifying courses taught at a Scottish University. The study aimed to enhance understanding of the way in which these courses draw on values-based pedagogy to incorporate professional values laid out in formal standards by external professional bodies. The paper reports on the findings relating specifically to values teaching on a professionally qualifying youth work programme, drawing on contributions uploaded to an online survey by students and lecturers engaged with the programme. It explores the themes to emerge from the survey data, including the centrality of values in practice and teaching; how these align with students’ personal values and are shaped by wider societal influences; lecturers’ pedagogical approaches; and the importance of supervised placements and dialogue between students, their supervisors, and lecturers in building their understanding and helping them to navigate the complexities of enacting values-based practice. The study concludes that youth worker education programmes, in which professional values are thoroughly embedded, offer the potential to deliver a transformative educative experience to students, and to potentially disrupt the reductionist values systems that have permeated the neo-liberal university.

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“Making It Remarkable”: Teaching Professional Youth Work Values in a UK Higher Education Institution

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Cantali,

Colville

2024

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Special Issue Editorial: Youth Work Pracademia: Creativity, Community and Meaningful Careers

Gormally,

Howard,

Seal

2024

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When reality surpasses concepts: informality in social pedagogy

Úcar

2024

International Journal of Social Pedagogy

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More than half a century ago, UNESCO popularised the terms formal, non-formal and informal to define, organise and characterise the macrocosm of educational actions. In this article I question the current relevance of these categories, and the characteristics of education and learning that act and intervene within the framework of social pedagogy. I focus mainly on informal learning, not only because it is the least well-known type of educational action, but because it is one of the central pillars on which the socio-educational relationships developed by social educators are built. I follow an orientated, though not systematic, procedure of documentary analysis. The analysis is conceptually orientated because I analyse two types of documents: (a) the documents that refer to informal education or learning, regardless of the territorial context or academic environment in which they are produced; and (b) those that relate such education or learning to social pedagogy. I organise the results obtained from these analyses into four sections. In the first section, I relate what different studies have proposed on formal, non-formal and informal education/learning, the ways of understanding them and the contents and procedures that respectively distinguish them. On the basis of this research, in the second section, I then propose a means of mapping to distinguish between the three types of education/learning. In the third section, I relate these forms of education/learning to social pedagogy. And finally, in the fourth section, by way of conclusion, I present some of the overlaps and hybridisations that demonstrate the current complexity of the universe entailing educational actions.

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Educating Informal Educators

Abstract: As Youth and Community Work courses in Higher Education dwindle across the UK, following years of austerity and cuts to Youth Services, the diverse pedagogies of informal education are more needed than ever [...]

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

“Making It Remarkable”: Teaching Professional Youth Work Values in a UK Higher Education Institution

“Making It Remarkable”: Teaching Professional Youth Work Values in a UK Higher Education Institution

Special Issue Editorial: Youth Work Pracademia: Creativity, Community and Meaningful Careers

When reality surpasses concepts: informality in social pedagogy

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