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Using reflective practice models to evaluate own performance
MA student assignment for the module Mastering Professional Learning.
"Using a reflective model of practice critically evaluate your own performance within your professional setting. This should include a critical evaluation of your practice together with learning opportunities and assessment you have provided."
Challenges and opportunities for Youth Workers in Wales
Summer Scheme Application & Evaluation Report
Report covers: aims and objectives; full programme; costings; and evaluation.
The Conflicted Practitioner
Well-being, resilience and happiness
Presentation on well-being, reslience and happiness, given to a research conference at University of South Wales.
EE Revisited Introduction
Introduction to a series of nine papers taken from a research Ph.D. They are focused on data about the maintained Youth Service in Wales, collected and analysed from 2002 to 2007 when the Youth Service was first being directed by the Welsh Government policy ‘Extending Entitlement’. These are being published in 2017 as there are issues which need to be considered due to the reinvigorated political interest in Extending Entitlement. These papers are intended to be a reminder that the translation of Extending Entitlement policy into practice was not a positive experience for the Youth Service in Wales and that there are inherent dangers that a refreshed Extending Entitlement will have just as many negative connotations unless we learn from, and respond to, the lessons from the past. The papers are:
Extending Entitlement Revisited:
- Paper 1: Setting the scene
- Paper 2: How was the evidence found and analysed?
- Paper 3: The needs of young people and the Maintained Youth Service response
- Paper 4: What did politicians want from the Maintained Youth Service?
- Paper 5: How Knowledgeable were those working in the Maintained Youth Service of its discrete identity during the time of the Extending Entitlement launch?
- Paper 6: Did the Maintained Youth Service have the tools to meet the priorities of Extending Entitlement?
- Paper 7: What was happening in the Maintained Youth Service at the time of Extending Entitlement?
- Paper 8: What did the Maintained Youth Service do after Extending Entitlement and how was this measured?
- Paper 9: Findings and recommendations
Standards for the Maintained Youth Service in Wales (draft)
This draft document was produced by the Principal Youth Officers of Wales (PYOG) with the support of the Wales Youth Agency (WYA) to encourage Local Authority Youth Services to introduce these standards in the context of their total resource allocation.
The document identifies an agreed set of standards for Youth Service provision, which are designed to promote young people’s social development and personal achievement within the economic and social policy agenda of the Welsh Assembly Government. It should complement other standards to secure effective policy for young people across various services. In particular they underpin those of ESTYN in respect of the quality and outcomes of the work of the Youth Service. Locally agreed standards may improve on these minimum national standards.
[The document remains draft as it was not formally adopted at it's publication due to the financial implications for local authorities in meeting these standards.]
Youth Work in Schools: An investigation of youth work, as a process of informal learning, in formal settings.
This research project from Northern Ireland investigates the thinking behind youth work in schools from a youth work perspective and a school perspective. It discusses theoretical concepts so that youth work can be understood in a formal context. Youth workers, teachers in relevant schools and young people exposed to this intervention were interviewed. The findings were analysed and discussed and the project concludes with a set of recommendations.