Social education theory in youth work is criticized for three assumptions: conceptualizing adolescence through problematic notions of 'growing up' and maturity, focusing too heavily on individuals and small groups while ignoring political contexts, and potential ethnocentrism and sexism in how the self is conceptualized.

Authors

• Person: Mark Smith Organization: infed.org
  Developing youth work: Chapter 5 - Beyond social education

Sources

• Developing youth work: Chapter 5 - Beyond social education infed.org Mark Smith · infed.org via serper

Referenced by nodes (3)

• social education concept
• youth work concept
• adolescence concept