PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Frances Howard is Senior Lecturer of Youth Studies in the Department of Social Work, Care and Community at Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests include youth work, arts programs, music-making and wellbeing. Frances is Co-Convenor of the BERA Youth Studies and Informal Education SIG group and is active in practice, as a volunteer for Nottingham Community Artists’ Network.
Youth Work? The arts? It's the future. This is a much-needed map of the territory, inviting us to consider cultural production by young people as an essential democratic practice. Janet Batsleer, Manchester Metropolitan University Art-based methods can work wonders for the young, but it is hard to point out exactly how and why. Frances Howard has presented a book which enables us to answer these crucial questions. Tomi Kiilakoski, Finnish Youth Research Network
