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This website contains a number of resources for youth work educators, researchers and practitioners that become accessible to you once you register using the link on the right hand side of the home page.
Getting Around
Once you have logged in, the left hand side of the page contains categories and links to the content. The uppermost menu gives details about this project and the website. The middle section contains links to article reference lists, categorised by topic, by author and by date. The bottom left menu contains links to external content and resources beyond this website.
Searching and Finding
There are a number of ways to find the content you are interested in.
- The search box on the top right of every page will search the whole site for words or terms that you enter. Common words like 'youth' will return a lot of results, so use the additional search parameters to refine your search results.
- Use the 'Resources for Youth Work Educators' menu to browse the article topics and headings. You will notice that the menu on the left expands to allow you to browse by author or by date, and in some cases by Australian or by Global articles.
- Once you have found a broad topic you are interested in, for example 'Youth Policy', you can use the CTRL F (Win) or CMD F (Mac) shortcut to find an article title on that page that contains your specific search term. This is the quickest way to find what you are looking for.
If you are looking for other resources, the 'External Links' menu may be of use. This contains links to peak bodies, policy documents, training information and ECU library resources as well as other useful information.
Getting Involved
If you would like to contribute to this project, you can Submit an Article by using the link on the right hand side of the page. Simply copy your article into the text box, and adjust the formatting if required. Choose a category, an access level and an optional alias and click submit. Your article will appear in the category you chose and will be available to either public or registered users only, depending on the choice you made.
Accessibility
The top of the page has options for increasing or decreasing the text size. You may find this useful when browsing the references for specific article titles. The website is formatted to work with screen readers and should be compatible with most mainstream software solutions.
Welcome to the site for Australian Youth Work Education: Curriculum Renewal and a Model for Sustainability for Niche Professions.
This project has multiple purposes. Firstly, to renew the youth work higher education curriculum for Australian Youth Work professional education. Secondly, to improve pathways for professional education and training in youth work. Thirdly, to examine organizational strategies that enable small niche professional courses, like youth work, to survive in the current higher education environment. The Australian Youth Work Educators’ Network will be established to consolidate cross-sectoral dialogue and collaboration.
The project will result in an Australia-wide renewed curriculum will anticipate future requirements for Youth Work professionals. This will facilitate future benchmarking, inter-sectoral and inter-professional pathways and international qualification recognition.
Australian Youth Work Education: Curriculum Renewal and a Model for Sustainability for Niche Professions is funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) and conducted through a partnership between Edith Cowan University, the Australian Catholic University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University and Victoria University. Tabor College (Adelaide) is an associate of this project.
The Australian Youth Work Education: Curriculum Renewal and a Model for Sustainability for Niche Professions research project will establish an Australian Youth Work Educators’ Network (AYWEN).
The AYWEN network aims to link Youth Work educators in Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Higher Education (HE) sectors. The AYWEN network will facilitate discussions about trends in Youth Work education and provide opportunities to share resources, new materials, to collaborate on curriculum development, and to share innovation in pedagogy. The network will provide a forum for information exchange and mutual support in a numerically small professional field.
The Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) provides funding for this project, and for other projects that aim to improve learning and teaching in higher education. The OLT,
'Promotes and supports change in higher education institutions for the enhancement of learning and teaching.'
The OLT works with eligible higher education institutions, discipline groups and individuals as a collaborative and supportive partner in change, providing access to a network of knowledge, ideas and people” from the OLT website.
The OLT website can be found at www.olt.gov.au
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