Ameba, Chameleon or Spider in the net : About the role and status of Youth Work and youth workers in the different network processes
Roslöf, Ursula (2012)
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Lataukset:
Humanistinen ammattikorkeakoulu
2012
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 Suomi
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2012091113553
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2012091113553
Tiivistelmä
Young people's services, education and youth education are broad concepts. Youth education is part of education and youth services. In the broad field of education youth education is the missing link between early childhood education and adult education. In the education sector and children and young people's services the professionals at schools, youth work, police, parents, unions and other organizations have collaborated for decades. Youth work has traditionally been a small player which has always been looking for partners.
The role of youth work and worker has changed clearly from the field of preventive activities with small resources in the last decade. Prevention of youth exclusion has become an everyday “mantra”, which has increased the expectations of youth services and youth work and networking. In my re-search the perspective is to describe the processes of networking, "up to bottom" from the state level to the provincial, regional, areal and local level. The aim is also to make the networks and their members in different levels become visible and find procedural clarity in their goals and working with other actors and organizations.
The second major issue is to find the core of youth work and workers role and status of today and future in the network – will it stay in the preventive, voluntary and non-formal learning work supporting community activities, or whether it will be more and more supporting individuals or can it be both ? In Finland there are lot of Acts, development projects and instructions, which justify youth services and youth work and also require cross-sectoral work. In the networking the method of shared expertise is needed, when different professionals share duties, responsibilities and knowledge.
My research survey is commissioned by the City of Naantali, which is my employer and also active network co-ordinating city in the areal, regional and also provincial and also international levels. The research draws pictures of the network processes in the City of Naantali, in the six neighbor municipalities, in the region of Turku and in the South-West province of Finland. There is also summaries of the surveys responses about the role and status of youth work and workers in network. Based on the responses of the surveys and materials of the processes there are proposals for the future networking and developing work.
The role of youth work and worker has changed clearly from the field of preventive activities with small resources in the last decade. Prevention of youth exclusion has become an everyday “mantra”, which has increased the expectations of youth services and youth work and networking. In my re-search the perspective is to describe the processes of networking, "up to bottom" from the state level to the provincial, regional, areal and local level. The aim is also to make the networks and their members in different levels become visible and find procedural clarity in their goals and working with other actors and organizations.
The second major issue is to find the core of youth work and workers role and status of today and future in the network – will it stay in the preventive, voluntary and non-formal learning work supporting community activities, or whether it will be more and more supporting individuals or can it be both ? In Finland there are lot of Acts, development projects and instructions, which justify youth services and youth work and also require cross-sectoral work. In the networking the method of shared expertise is needed, when different professionals share duties, responsibilities and knowledge.
My research survey is commissioned by the City of Naantali, which is my employer and also active network co-ordinating city in the areal, regional and also provincial and also international levels. The research draws pictures of the network processes in the City of Naantali, in the six neighbor municipalities, in the region of Turku and in the South-West province of Finland. There is also summaries of the surveys responses about the role and status of youth work and workers in network. Based on the responses of the surveys and materials of the processes there are proposals for the future networking and developing work.