Document Type
Article
Abstract
Earlier in this Symposium I talked about what I thought were some of the issues facing the profession and there was a very relevant discussion this morning about the attributes of the profession. Perhaps in this room there is a rather nonrepresentative sample of people who, if I say, "Are you a youth development professional?" will say, "yes." When you tell people what you do, how many people use that term or something close to it when they describe what they do? Two. How many use "youth worker?" Four. Any other generic term that says what you do? Recreation Director, Youth Guidance, Youth Director, Teacher. How many of you, when you describe what you do, tend to say where you work?
The majority of the hands went up when I asked, "Do you say where you work in describing who you are and what you do?" "I work for 4-H, I work for Boys and Girls Club, I work for such and such youth agency." We may have some changes to do in moving the profession along, but I think if we can go back to some of the comments I made yesterday, there may be a more difficult task of asking what is this profession.
Publication Date
1995
Journal Title
National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs
Volume
4
Issue
1
ISBN
1-881516-03-2
First Page
27
Last Page
34
Publisher
Institute for Youth Leaders
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1995 Institute for Youth Leaders, College of Education, School of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services, University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Pittman, Karen and Johnson, Elaine
(1995)
"Toward a Youth Development Profession,"
National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs: Vol. 4, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/nyls_monographs/vol4/iss1/6
Comments
Monograph no.4 of this series covers the 1993 National Youth Leadership Symposium