Joyce A. Walker

Establishing expertisein an emerging field

Foreword, Shep Zeldin Preface Introduction 1. A Conversation with Ellen Gannett, Dana Fusco and Ellen Gannett I. Competencies and Credentials 2. Embedding and Sustaining Youth Worker Core Competencies in Out-of-School Time Programs, Sarah Jonas 3. Assessing Youth Worker Competence: National Child and Youth Worker Certification, Dale Curry, Andrew J. Schneider-Munoz, Frank Eckles, and Carol Stuart 4. Establishing Expertise in an Emerging Field, Joyce Walker and Kate Walker 5. Youth Work and the Education of Professional Practitioners in Australia, Judith Bessant II. Curriculum 6. A Decade of Educating Youth Workers at an Urban Community College, Pete Watkins 7. A Chicago Story: Challenge and Change, Michael Heathfield 8. The Journey to Becoming a Youth Worker, Camille Williamson 9. On Becoming an Academic Profession, Dana Fusco 10. Preparing the Next Generation of Professoriate in Youth Studies: Mapping the Contested Spaces, Ross VeLure Roholt and Michael Baizerman 11. Youth Development Network: A Site for the Professional Development of Youth Workers, Jacqueline Davis-Manigaulte III. Contexts of Youth Work 12. Youth Work Practice in England, Helen Jones 13. Youth Work as Engagement, Ross VeLure Roholt and Judie Cutler 14. Youth Work across Two Diverse Domains of Practice, Jim Sibthorp, M. Deborah Bialeschki, Carol Stuart and Jack Phelan 15. A Community Education Approach to Youth Work Education, Joel Nitzberg IV. Conclusion 16. Advancing Youth Work: Opportunities and Challenges, Jane Quinn 17. Framing Trends, Posing Questions, Dana Fusco About the Authors

Letters in the Attic

This article reports on an hermeneutic interpretive study of letters 18 women wrote to each other annually for 25 years, from 1968 to 1993. Six themes related to personal success and achieve- ment emerged from readings and systematic study of this set of more than 250 letters. The stories in these letters connect the private and public worlds; they communicate the events experienced, things hoped for, and things not done.