Participative approach to professional development, peer learning and evaluation in youth work: Summary report

Authors

Trudi Cooper, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Miriam Rose Brooker, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Orietta Simons, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Report

Publisher

Edith Cowan University

School

School of Arts and Humanities

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Cooper, T., Brooker, M.R., & Simons, O. (2018). Participative approach to professional development, peer learning and evaluation in youth work: Summary report. Edith Cowan University.

https://doi.org/10.25958/sqbq-a495

Abstract

Youth work evaluation is frequently driven by funders’ requirements, which usually focus on quantitative data about outputs that are easy to measure (Jeffs & Smith, 2005). This approach to evaluation is incomplete and excludes information that would permit a more rounded assessment of the impact of youth work (Cooper, 2014). Missing from funder-driven evaluations are young people’s perspectives on what they have gained from youth work, and youth workers evaluations of how youth work processes have operated to achieve the results presented...

DOI

10.25958/sqbq-a495

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