Empowering the powerful: Challenging hidden processes of marginalization in youth work policy and practice in Belgium

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 421-442

  Coussée, Filip ^a   Roets, Griet ^a   de Bie, Maria ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Critical class theory; Inclusive youth work; Social pedagogy; Vulnerable youth

Indexed keywords

CIVILIZATION; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; LABOR POLICY; SOCIAL INCLUSION; THEORETICAL STUDY; YOUNG POPULATION;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; FLANDERS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349311398     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018309105178     Document Type: Article

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