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Why employ qualified Youth Workers?
No full textYoung people are the specified clients of many of those employed in community services, in both government and non-government agencies. Many of these employees, however, do not have formal qualifications in youth work. In this article, Judith Bessant explains both why young people qualify as a defined population sector with distinct service needs, and how, through sepcialised education and training, youth workers are better able to serve this sector than are employees without youth work training
The fixed age rule: Young people, parental consent and research ethics
No full textAustralia is in the process of producing new national guidelines for ethical conduct in research involving humans; however, the draft guidelines do little to remove the restrictions on young people participating in research without parental consent. Judith Bessant argues that young people are being denied their right to participate in research, and researchers are missing out on opportunities to conduct important research on young people, because of outdated conventions concerning the capability of young people to make decisions regarding their participation in research
'Up periscope': The future for youth-work in Australia
No full textWhat are the major challenges facing youth work in Australia in the future? Are they environmental, global, economic, professional or demographic? Are they none, or all, of the above? Judith Bessant discusses the possible impact of these factors and more in her invitation to the sector to engage in a discussion that is vital to the ongoing development of the youth work as a respected profession that is effective in the service it offers to young people
Children and the law: An historical overview
No full textThe first chapter 'Children and the Law: A Historical Overview' by Judith Bessant and Rob Watts, provides a great and challenging start. All of it is confronting, much is controversial and open to debate and dissent, but this is how it should be in a book such as this
The politics of education: Why stand-alone youth work degrees matter
No full textWhile the demand in Australia for youth workers is growing, the education of youth workers in universities is being 'rationalised' because these institutions have been fiscally squeezed by successive federal governments. What are the consequences for youth workers, young people and society as a whole if the move towards 'generic' human service degrees is allowed to continue? Given that there is no national professional youth work association in Australia, what can those who teach youth studies or work in the field do to promote and develop specialised youth work education? Judith Bessant considers these questions while discussing the repercussions of recent developments in youth work education in Australian universities
Reasonable limits and exemptions: Victoria's human rights charter and its implications for young people
No full textMany people had great expectations of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities when it came fully into effect in January 2008. It was believed that the charter would provide a framework of legally enforceable human rights for groups historically subject to discrimination, such as young people. However, the charter enables both the government and other organisations to seek exemptions from its application, which has produced some anomalies. In this article, Judith Bessant asks whether the provision for seeking exemptions from the charter has undermined its capacity to effectively counter age-based discrimination and, paradoxically, permitted practices that clearly breach the basic human rights of young peopl
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[Book Review] Judith Bessant, The Great Transformation: History for a Techno-Human Future
Get PDFThe Great Transformation: History for a Techno-Human Future by Judith Bessant is an important book that attempts to answer two hugely important questions of our time, namely; i) how do we make sense of the widespread impact of rapid technology-led transformations taking place in the world today, without being overwhelmed by them? And ii) how might we respond to the various social, ethical and moral challenges these transformations pose? In answering these fundamental questions, Bessant weaves together insights from historical sociology, philosophy and cognitive co-evolutionary theory and argues strongly against various ‘determinisms’ associated with visions of our shared technological future. Bessant’s multi-disciplinary approach correctly emphasises the relational and reciprocal link between technology and humans, without factoring out human agency and responsibility. Overall, this book should be read as both a descriptive endeavour and a prescriptive one, which whilst underlining the historical ‘co-evolution’ of technology and human consciousness also emphasises how we may learn from this history and respond to the impending challenges of our collective techno-human future
Rise of the far right: technologies of recruitment and mobilization/ edited by Judith Bessant, Rob Watts and Melody Devries.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."This edited collection offers readers a practical focus on how media technologies are involved in recruitment and mobilization processes of far-right groups"--Introduction: The uncanny political work of technologies / Melody Devries, Judith Bessant and Rob Watts -- Far-right recruitment and mobilization on Facebook : the case of Australia / Jordan McSwiney -- Populist myths and ethno-nationalist fears in Hungary / Simon Bradford and Fin Cullen -- Multi-platform social capital mobilization strategies among Anti-LGBTQIA+ groups in Taiwan / Kenneth C.C. Yang and Yowei Kang -- Twitter as a channel for frame diffusion : hashtag activism and the virality of #HeterosexualPrideDay / J.P. Armstrong -- The online manosphere and misogyny in the far-right : the case of the #thotaudit / Simon Copland -- "A positive identity for men" : pathways to far-right participation through Reddit's /r/MensRights and /r/TheRedPill / Luc S. Cousineau -- Soldiers of 4Chan : the role of anonymous online spaces in backlash movement networks / Andrey Kasimov -- The internet hate machine : on the weird collectivity of anonymous far-right groups / Sal Hagen and Marc Tuters -- Gab as an imitated counterpublic / Greta Jasser -- Moments of political gameplay : game design as a mobilization tool for far-right action / Noel Brett -- Mobilized but not (yet) recruited : the case of the Collective Avatar / Melody Devries -- "Resisting" the far right in racial capitalism : sources, possibilities and limits / Tanner Mirrlees.1 online resourc
Interpreting human service policy in regional and rural Queensland: the practitioners' perspective
No full textThis paper reports on a study recently conducted in Queensland and focuses on the way in which human service policy - developed in urban Australia, becomes implemented and/or resisted, by practitioners in rural/regional Australia. The notion of 'rurality' remains a contested one, particularly in the nature of urban/rural dichotomies (see Urry, 1995). Most rural Sociological literature tends to focus on an agricultural production perspective and most policy analysis literature focuses on 'policy' as if it is spatially neutral that is, always urban-centred. Our research is focused on this 'space' between urban/ rural and on the practices being undertaken by human service practitioners in such spaces. We would argue that the discourse of community within regional and rural centres is very different from a community discourse in larger urban centres, a fact which is rarely acknowledged in policy development or implementation
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