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Reviews
Volume 12, Number 2
Whatever happened to radical youth work? Tony Jeffs laments the passing of a more vibrant and challenging notion
of youth work.
Erasing the margins - education, education, education Jean Barr raises some important questions in a paper first presented at
the Fifth Edinburgh Biennial Adult
Education Conference ‘Reclaiming social purpose - learning for life in
Scotland today’, held on 24 March, 2001.
Young women and violence: a group work programme exploring their
experiences and attitudes Rachel Grant describes a group work programme undertaken with
13-14-year-old young women which aims to highlight the contradictions
between their attitudes and lived experiences.
Promoting community use of ICT Pete McDougall looks at ways of making ICT less of a mysterious black
box in community work and community education.
Inspirations An interview for Concept with George Lamb, third-year student on the BA
course in Community Education at the University of Edinburgh.
Debate: Against post-modernism Mike Gonzalez takes issue with Rod Purcell, who in Vol 11, No 3 of
Concept summarised the ideas of post-modernism and explained why he felt
they provided a viable understanding of society. The next edition will carry
an exchange of letters between Rod and Mike, in which they pursue their
disagreements further. Watch this space!