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Posted By:  obscurity
Posted On:  Oct 15, 2008

  Reflecting on social reporting or enabling social reporters
[Summary: A personal learning reflection on digital reporting from events - enable people to report, don't report on their behalf...] I’ve facilitated young people as ‘ roving reporter ‘ and ‘digital journalists’, or even, in the terminology David Wilcox is...... [view]
Posted By:  freechild
Posted On:  Oct 14, 2008

  When the Truth Isn't Told
Mike Males is a sociologist and author whose writing has deeply influenced a lot of radical, committed youth workers, myself included. As my own analysis has opened up I've continued reading Males, primarily because he keeps digging further into the psyche of adultism in America today. His...... [view]
Posted By:  freechild
Posted On:  Oct 4, 2008

  Make Learning Meaningful
There are hundreds of manuals and workbooks and binders out there about how to teach and train young people, with most of them being well-intended and sometimes interesting. I'm guilty of writing more than one. But sometimes I forget to boil it down to its essence, the point. Here are three...... [view]
Posted By:  obscurity
Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008

  A round up from the Youth Work Web
Since UK Youth Online unConference two new youth blogs have made it onto the scene. Welcome to: Tom Gaskin - blogging at Virtually Detached all about his experiences of running an award winning local website for young people in Norfolk, and acting as a detached participation worker...... [view]
Posted By:  freechild
Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008

  Not Adultism - Corporal Punishment
Spanking, slapping, smacking, pulling ears, pinching, shaking... Hitting with rulers, belts, wooden spoons, extension cords, slippers, hairbrushes, pins, sticks, whips, rubber hoses, flyswatters, wire hangers, stones, bats, canes, or paddles... Being forced to stand for a long period; hold...... [view]
Posted By:  freechild
Posted On:  Sep 25, 2008

  Learning from Skateboarders
I talked with a group of students carrying skateboards at a middle school the other day. I was visiting the school for work, and afterward, heading out to the parking lot I ran into this group. "Hey, where do you guys skate around here?" There were two girls with four boys. "We go down to a...... [view]
Posted By:  obscurity
Posted On:  Aug 28, 2008

  A veritable festival of youth and social media
The 26th and 27th September should see a veritable festival of events linked to youth participation, youth work and social media down in London. In fact, I wish I'd seen all the connections earlier to brand the whole lot as a festival. Here's what is coming up: Social...... [view]
Posted By:  obscurity
Posted On:  Aug 11, 2008

  Over on the Youth Work and Social Networking blog
I've tried to keep the plethora of reflections and shared bits and pieces from the Youth Work and Social Networking project over on their own blog - but I'm aware some people have been expecting me to post them here also. So, here is a quick run-down of some of the posts, documents and...... [view]
Posted By:  obscurity
Posted On:  Aug 13, 2008

  Three aspects of blogging to promote positive activities
I've just been interviewed for an article about how blogging can be used to promote positive activities. Using blogging as part of promoting youth work was only one part of one of the 7 reasons why youth workers should be blogging - but in the interview I found that it can be usefully broken...... [view]
Posted By:  freechild
Posted On:  Aug 14, 2008

  Home Alone and Social Change
What does staying home alone have to do with young people changing the world? In today's New York Times there is an article that proposes that anywhere between 11 and 14 is okay. The author acknowledges that 7, 8 and 9 year-olds stay home alone in working class homes, but doesn't hesitate to...... [view]
Posted By:  freechild
Posted On:  Aug 5, 2008

  Young People as Inevitable
Over the next few blog entries I'm going to write about what the common motivations are for engaging children and youth. Today I start with seeing young people as inevitable. There's this idea out there that somehow young people are inevitable and that's why we've got to listen to them....... [view]
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  GSV Youth Club
Submitted By:   devrimfidan
Website:  http://www.gsv.org.tr
Phone:  +9 (0) 312 232 22 20
E-mail:  info@gsv.org.tr 		  Vision:   GSV Youth Club is a non-profit youth organization established in 2004 by Deputy General Director of DG Youth and Sport, Director of Youth Services Department and civil servants in DG Youth and Sport. In 2005 some of the......
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