Howard Williamson

• University of South Wales

This article argues that the right of young people to participate in decisions being made about them forms the basis for professional youth work practice. The authors consider the nature of ‘participation’ and its relation to human rights, and introduces the concept of ‘adultism’ and the challenges for youth workers combatting ‘adultist’ beliefs an...

This paper analyses the European Union Youth Strategy 2019-2027 and the Council of Europe Youth Sector Strategy 2030. Both Strategies are institutional reactions to the situation of young people in Europe and written in a pre-pandemic situation. In the light of the Covid-19-crisis, the paper has three aims: - to analyse the convergences and diverge...

The Conference stands as an opportunity to present and discuss empirical and theoretical works from a variety of disciplines and fields devoted to the needs and prospects of Reinventing Education. The challenges posed by the contemporary world have long required a rethinking of educational concepts, policies and practices. The question about educat...

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 pane...

The prospects for young people in Europe look bleak. The ‘social condition’ of young people is characterised by experiences of exclusion, and a sense of betrayal and anger at having been ‘sacrificed’ by the older generation. Many more young people, from more diverse backgrounds and perspectives, are now exposed to precarious social circumstances. S...

Guest Editors' Note One of the most central principles for social pedagogues is to critically examine their role and the purpose of their practice: What are the social aspects of relevance for their practice? How can they help the children they work with to develop social competences, to feel included in a social network and the wider society, to h...

There is enormous contemporary political and policy expectation and pressure on youth work to secure the 're-engagement' of young people already in, or at risk of, circumstances of social exclusion. That re-engagement is judged around issues such as 'citizenship' and 'employability', though - like youth work itself - those words have variable and f...

Résumé Cet article traite de l’idée, de l’évolution et de la mise en œuvre éventuelle de la « politique de la jeunesse ». Il s’appuie sur le contexte européen en la matière, en particulier les analyses internationales des politiques nationales de la jeunesse du Conseil de l’Europe. Trois modèles d’élaboration des politiques de la jeunesse et d’acti...

The measures introduced in the 1982 Criminal Justice Act show signs of accelerating the trend towards the use of custodial penalties for persistent and/or serious juvenile male offenders. This situation places an unwelcome obligation on practitioners within social services or the probation service to develop programmes offering sufficient control a...

There is a lot of mischief within the debate on the respective merits and effectiveness of ‘universal’ versus ‘targeted’ services — of any kind. The point is that, in relation to any ‘target’ group but here in the context of young people, services should actually reach and have the desired impact on them. Over the past decade or so, this has produc...

Devolution heralded the possibility for Wales to determine and develop, amongst other things, a distinctive 'youth policy' based on 'opportunity-focused' principles and aspirations around learning, participation, inclusion and justice. At its inception, in May 1999, the National Assembly for Wales was led by a strong political core which commanded...

This paper assesses the potential of mark-recapture methods as a relatively powerful innovative research method for estimating the prevalence of “hard-to-reach”human populations in the social welfare field. We outline the development of mark-recapture methods, illustrating some recent applications. The body of the paper reviews the main methodologi...

This paper reports an evaluation of a rural activity project for people with learning difficulties. The project is situated in (but not a regular part of) an agriculture college. Both statutory and voluntary interests are represented in the management of the scheme, which is funded by the All Wales Strategy for the Mentally Handicapped through the...

Internationale auswertung der jugendpolitiken Auf Initiative des Europarates haben Gruppen von internationalen Experten die Auswertung der Jugendpolitiken von zehn Mitgliedslandern des Europarates durchgefuhrt. Die Auswertungen bezuglich der ersten sieben Lander sind Gegenstand eines Synthese Berichts von Howard Williamson, der die Arbeit der versc...

Over the past decade there has been increasing interest in the relationships between youth policy making, youth research and practice with and by young people. Sometimes referred to as the ‘magic triangle’ that has the potential to strengthen all corners if there are effective lines of communication and dialogue, there are also reservations about t...

Las políticas de juventud en el Reino Unido están experimentando un fuerte impulso, sobretodo con las medidas para prevenir la exclusión social y la delincuencia. Este artículo describe y indaga en el camino que se ha llevado a cabo desde el reconocimiento político de la desafección juvenil, lo cual la convirtió en un reto político significativo, h...

The Right to Learn: Educational Strategies for Socially Excluded Youth In Europe, Ides Nicaise (ed.), Bristol: Policy Press, 2000, £18.99, vii+424 pp. - - Volume 15 Issue 3 - HOWARD WILLIAMSON

Citizenship is best understood as signifying a field of struggle: an arena in which relations linking individuals to their wider community, social and political contexts are continually discussed, reworked and contested. This paper explores the current preoccupation with citizenship in Britain, and relates this specifically to the challenges this p...

This paper is concerned with questions of identity, citizenship and social change as these are experienced by young people in the UK today. In the course of recent changes to the context and content of youth transitions the notion of citizenship has come to the fore as a means of discussing young people's move into independent membership of society...

This paper examines the relationship between citizenship and young peoples’ social identities. The concept of social citizenship is explored in the context of contemporary debates about the transition to adult status. In the light of recent calls for an education for citizenship, at both compulsory and post‐compulsory levels, the paper makes a time...

Considerable concern has been expressed over the plight of those young people who, on leaving school, fail to enter a training programme or a job. However, very little systematic research has been carried out on these jobless — or, as we put it, ‘Status Zero’ — school‐leavers. This paper begins to report the results of a study, carried out in a sin...

Mini‐enterprise in schools is the most tangible manifestation of ‘education for enteprise’. Despite its growing presence in schools, and diverse views about its potential impact, little is known about how pupils experience such activity. Findings suggest that interpersonal learning objectives are achieved effectively through mini‐enterprise but mor...

The Youth Service in England and Wales has traditionally been primarily concerned with working with young people during their leisure time. Youth workers have defined their central role as contributing to the personal development of young people through the provision of informal social education. Consequently the Youth Service has barely been consi...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University College, Cardiff, 1981.

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