Stovin and All
We're not sure if you will welcome a ringing festive endorsement from the likes of our dissident group, but it is the season of goodwill. The revamped site is smart and the daily bulletins prompt and informative. We have our reservations about the distinction made without explanation between Youth Work and Education in your categories of practice. It seems to overlook years of struggle around the meaning of Youth Work and the relationship between informal and formal education. And we'd like your reportage to be a mite more feisty and questioning. But, as Tim Davies notes, perhaps the hope is that the Forums and Blogs will animate critical debate. We hope so, but recognise that this will be pretty difficult in the face of so much passivity, born out of understandable tiredness amidst the hurly-burly of practice , but also arising from an ideological retreat by a lot of folk in the work. Whatever, good on you for making the effort. And in praising your endeavours on our site, http://www.critically-chatting.0catch.com we encourage people to sign up to CYPNOW, suggesting that nobody's got an excuse anymore for not knowing what's going on!
Best Wishes for the New Year
Tony Taylor on behalf of the Critically Chatting Collective