Janet Batsleer is Principal Lecturer and Head of Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Very good book explaining the relevance of informal education and learning. Key text for all thinking of entering youth work or already active in the field. Relevant and thought provoking.

• How to Use this BookInformal Learning and Informal EducationPART ONE: WHOSE AGENDA?Identity, Identity Politics and RightsSocial Inclusion and ExclusionChallenging the `NEET` discoursePersonal AgendasReflective Practice in the Context of DiversityPART TWO: GETTING TO KNOW YOUNG PEOPLEUnderstanding Young PeopleBoundaries in Practice`It′s Boring′... How Do Youth Workers Engage?PART THREE : GETTING DEEPERSafe Space and Identity-Based GroupworkThe Voluntary RelationshipCompetence, Negotiation and AccompanimentFriendship and ProfessionalismAnimation, Informal Education and CreativityPART FOUR: UNFINISHED CONVERSATIONSSilence, Bullying and DespairYouth Work ResponsesSilence, Spirit and SolidarityResources for PracticeYouth Work, Democracy and ParticipationCommunity Cohesion and Transversal Politics

Janet Batsleer is Principal Lecturer and Head of Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Very good book explaining the relevance of informal education and learning. Key text for all thinking of entering youth work or already active in the field. Relevant and thought provoking.

• How to Use this BookInformal Learning and Informal EducationPART ONE: WHOSE AGENDA?Identity, Identity Politics and RightsSocial Inclusion and ExclusionChallenging the `NEET` discoursePersonal AgendasReflective Practice in the Context of DiversityPART TWO: GETTING TO KNOW YOUNG PEOPLEUnderstanding Young PeopleBoundaries in Practice`It′s Boring′... How Do Youth Workers Engage?PART THREE : GETTING DEEPERSafe Space and Identity-Based GroupworkThe Voluntary RelationshipCompetence, Negotiation and AccompanimentFriendship and ProfessionalismAnimation, Informal Education and CreativityPART FOUR: UNFINISHED CONVERSATIONSSilence, Bullying and DespairYouth Work ResponsesSilence, Spirit and SolidarityResources for PracticeYouth Work, Democracy and ParticipationCommunity Cohesion and Transversal Politics

Janet Batsleer is Principal Lecturer and Head of Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Very good book explaining the relevance of informal education and learning. Key text for all thinking of entering youth work or already active in the field. Relevant and thought provoking.

• How to Use this BookInformal Learning and Informal EducationPART ONE: WHOSE AGENDA?Identity, Identity Politics and RightsSocial Inclusion and ExclusionChallenging the `NEET` discoursePersonal AgendasReflective Practice in the Context of DiversityPART TWO: GETTING TO KNOW YOUNG PEOPLEUnderstanding Young PeopleBoundaries in Practice`It′s Boring′... How Do Youth Workers Engage?PART THREE : GETTING DEEPERSafe Space and Identity-Based GroupworkThe Voluntary RelationshipCompetence, Negotiation and AccompanimentFriendship and ProfessionalismAnimation, Informal Education and CreativityPART FOUR: UNFINISHED CONVERSATIONSSilence, Bullying and DespairYouth Work ResponsesSilence, Spirit and SolidarityResources for PracticeYouth Work, Democracy and ParticipationCommunity Cohesion and Transversal Politics