O'Shea, Johanna and McGinnis, Emma (2019) ‘Do you really want me to tell ya!’ critical learning in engaging young people in contact with the justice system as peer educators with social work students. Social Work Education, 39 (6). pp. 706-720. ISSN 1470-1227

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This paper outlines and evaluates an active and experiential learning project, which gave young people involved with the justice system, a voice as peer educators engaging with social work students outside of the traditional educational institution. The project had two key interconnecting elements. Firstly, by engaging a hidden population of young people in a realistic and meaningful way, it enabled them to share their experiences, and allowed students to understand the complexity of what it means to be socially excluded. Secondly, through this active participation process the young people began to see education as a desirable goal. The project took place over three months and included 10 social work students and 13 young people involved with the justice system. Creative use of multimedia facilitated production of a learning resource to capture the young people’s lived experiences with statutory social work and justice systems. Young people were fundamentally challenged in their beliefs about themselves being involved in education to achieve a qualification. Students were challenged in their creativity and versatility responding to the task, when collaborating with ‘hard to reach’ young people. They were furthermore challenged in terms of their attitudes and assumptions in relation to offending and social justice.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Johanna O’Shea & Emma McGinnis (2020) ‘Do you really want me to tell ya!’ critical learning in engaging young people in contact with the justice system as peer educators with social work students, Social Work Education, 39:6, 706-720, DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2019.1663813
Keywords:	criminal justice social work; higher education; narrative approaches; person centered; social justice; students; user participation; Users perspectives; youth justice;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Applied Social Studies
Item ID:	15485
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2019.1663813
Depositing User:	Johanna O'Shea
Date Deposited:	14 Feb 2022 16:08
Journal or Publication Title:	Social Work Education
Publisher:	Routledge
Refereed:	No
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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