BEST SUPERSITE FOR YOUTHWORK
- Youthwork Links &
Ideas Barbara Kawliche's comprehensive www.youthwork.com
site includes many UK links. It now has a special section on Experiential
Education - a selection of sites that focus solely on
youth or have lots of information about youth and youthwork.
UK YOUTHWORK
- The Informal Education
Homepage Comprehensive and recommended.
- UNICEF UK - including
Children's Rights in Plain English
- Generation
Youth
Issues includes some well researched articles about the
value of unsupervised play and how this right or opportunity
is fast disappearing in Scotland (see the youth curfew
article).
- The Site
- National Children's Bureau
- Barnardos
- The Duke of Edinburgh's
Award
- National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Raleigh International
- Ocean Youth Club UK
- Foundation for Outdoor Adventure
- Outer Hebrides young
persons information site a one stop information site for
young people in the Western Isles, covering subjects like:
health, education, career, music, sport, etc...
- Save the
Children UK
European YOUTHWORK
- Coyote
web-based magazine about youth worker training in Europe
(find it via the 'publications' link when you get there).
Coyote provides ...
- a forum for trainers to explore the diverse
training concepts, methodologies, practices and realities
across Europe.
- information about current developments -
especially at European level.
Coyote aims ...
- to strengthen networking among trainers
involved in European youth worker training
- to promote the value of European level training
for youth workers.
Coyote
is published by the Council of Europe and the European
Commission in partnership with the youth work field.
- More
Attention
Should Be Given to Gender Issues in All Kinds of Training
an article for Coyote 3 by Erzsébet Kovács and Paul
Kloosterman suggesting new ways of approaching gender issues
in training.
- Youth Include [website vanished June 2003] links
organisations and individuals who are interested in youth
programmes that specifically address minority youth or youth
in difficulty. As social exclusion becomes a key concept among
policy makers the site aims to provide space for those on the
ground to engage with and debate the best ways of developing
inclusive youth programmes. Includes pages in German and
French.
- Roofonfire
International youth worker training course in Lithuania -
experiential learning and intercultural learning. Report also
includes full descriptions of methodologies.
Worldwide YOUTHWORK
- Youthwork Links &
Ideas Barbara Kawliche's comprehensive USA based site
has many connections to youth work sites in other countries.
- Article 12 The Rights of
the Child
- A
WORLD FIT FOR US Message from the Children's Forum,
delivered to the UN General Assembly Special Session on
Children by child delegates, Gabriela Azurduy Arrieta, 13,
from Bolivia and Audrey Cheynut, 17, from Monaco on 8 May
2002.
- Declaration
of
Learner's Rights and Responsibilities created and
presented by young people for the Wondertree Foundation of
Natural Learning at the Rights of the Child Conference in
Victoria, BC, Canada, 1995.
- Child Rights Information
Network (CRIN) To get free copies of the CRIN newsletter
visit their website.
- Guidelines
for
Challenging Racism and other forms of Oppression
- Save the Children
- Indigenous
Children
and Youth (UNHCR Leaflet 9)
Summary: Indigenous Children and Youth are particularly
vulnerable to human rights violations, as they often find
themselves caught between their indigenous language, customs
and values and those of the wider community. Several
organizations, such as the United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) and the UN Youth Unit, deal specifically with the
problems faced by children and youth.
- Adolescence
Directory
On-Line
- Australian Clearinghouse for
Youth Studies
- The Therapeutic
Milieu tips, forum and resources for working with
at-risk youth and emotionally disturbed children.
ON
THIS
SITE
ROGER'S ACTIVE LEARNING
BOOKSHOP WHERE PROFITS GO TO SAVE THE CHILDREN
- Please recommend other other youth work resources -
especially any that are about 'reviewing'.
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