How do young people develop through youth arts programs and how can these programs reflect and extend young peoples personal interests? How can youth arts support participatory democracy and social change?
Frances Howard puts forward a powerful case for the value of youth arts programs, whilst acknowledging and interrogating the complexities involved, including unequal access to provision and the class-based harm that can be inadvertently practiced within them.
Drawing on the author's own practice experience, alongside a range of international case studies showing best practice, this grounded and accessible text will be welcome reading to academics, students and practitioners across Education, Youth and Community courses.
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"Howards work in this book certainly marks a significant milestone within the discourse of youth work and arts and contributes to larger debates on development and social change through arts. Her templates provide a valuable direction to nudge the practitioners as well as the field to be responsive to the needs of context, thus emphasizing creativity, criticality, and sensitivity." Journal of Applied Youth Studies "Youth Work? The arts? Its the future. This is a much-needed map of the territory, inviting us to consider cultural production by young people as an essential democratic practice." Janet Batsleer, Manchester Metropolitan University Art-based methods can work wonders for the young, but it is hard to point out exactly how and why. Frances Howard has presented a book which enables us to answer these crucial questions. Tomi Kiilakoski, Finnish Youth Research Network
Part I
1: Introduction
2: Current and future trends in Youth Arts Programs
3: Knowing Young People
Part II
4: Researching the Arts Award in Youth Work Settings
5: Youth Arts Practices
6: Youth Arts Pedagogies
Part III
7: Accommodating Common Culture
8: Celebrating Cultural Democracy
9: Cultivating Cultural Citizenship
10: Enabling Youth Arts Programs to Flourish
Frances Howard is Senior Lecturer of Youth Studies in the Department of Social Work, Care and Community at Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests include youth work, arts programs, music-making and wellbeing. Frances is Co-Convenor of the BERA Youth Studies and Informal Education SIG group and is active in practice, as a volunteer for Nottingham Community Artists Network.
