Approaches to Youth Participation in Youth and Community Work - Critical Dialogue

This critical dialogue on ‘youth participation’ is a timely contribution to the body of knowledge. It succeeds in illuminating an underpinning rationale while also delivering practical advice on the practice of involving young people in decision making. Dr Tim Corney, as moderator, provides a series of provocative questions to an international panel of experts, and guides the conversation, amplifying and clarifying the arguments at key points in the debate. The concept of ‘youth participation’, its theoretical methods and models, are examined and current terms such as ‘co-design’ are explored and critiqued. The editors, Corney and Williamson, are both highly experienced in the field of professional youth and community work, and have skilfully woven together the contributors’ responses into a coherent and comprehensive treatment of this important topic