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History of youth and community work study conference

6th - 8th March 2009, Ushaw College, Durham UK.

Sponsored by Youth and Policy

Download conference leaflet and booking form.

Amongst the plenary speakers will be Gabriel Eichsteller on the history of social pedagogy and Catriona Kelly (Oxford University), author of two major books on the Pioneers and growing up in Soviet Russia.

picture: withywood youth club circa 1963

There will be a number of workshops on the Albemarle Report published fifty years ago and at least one to mark the fortieth anniversary of the launch of the Community Development Programme.