Challenging ourselves to keep learning
My eldest daughter often asks me, or certainly did more often when she was younger, what’s your favourite colour? Your favourite car?...
Challenges we face
The challenges we face, and there are many, seem to concentrate on a number of key area. For example, how we have it seems, at least in...
Challenges and Changes affecting our evolution
When I think of the word evolution I think of it in terms of humanity, the planet, the stars, the universe, or even as is currently...
An ethical question for Youth Work
Many of the assumptions that we make about youth work and the practice we deliver are based on experience developed over decades, e.g.,...
Humour: barely acknowledged by Youth Work
‘Philosophers of education need to stop neglecting discussions about humour and, instead, embrace its potential in education’ Finding the...
We need Imagination, Creativity and Critical Thinking more than ever
A recent study of 12 European countries seems to signal a worrying trend in that ‘nearly half the adults in Britain and Europe hold...
Young people and potential – over-used, clichéd, patronising, misleading and down-right ill-informed
Just a thought, one I've held for a long time though but never articulated it.....as some of you if not many of you will know I'm a youth...
Compassion - Have we really reached a point of no return?
I was on a train journey recently from Derry to Belfast and at one point in the journey a lady sat next to me, yes I know, some actually...
We Youth Workers are a funny bunch but none of us are laughing!
Well it’s not entirely true of course, but now that I’ve got your attention – see what I did there – no? Ok, anyways, I digress. I’m a...
Democracy isn’t the problem - Parliamentary Democracy is!
If like me, you are both intrigued and despairing in equal measure at the recent state of politics I’m right there with you comrade. ...
