Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society.

1. The Case for Re-Imagining the Ways of Working with Young People in Education and Youth Work; Charlie Cooper, Sinead Gormally and Gill Hughes 2. Challenging The Order Of Things: Independent Working-Class Education As A Model For Contemporary Praxis; John Grayson 3. Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education; Charlie Cooper 4. Emancipatory Praxis; A Social-Justice Approach to Equality Work; Annette Coburn and Sinead Gormally 5. Social Justice and Social Pedagogy; Pat Petrie 6. Alternative Provision Free Schools: Educational Fireworks Or Sparks Of Optimism For Excluded Young People?; Max Hope 7. In Pursuit Of A Common Values Base For Working With Young People In Formal, Informal And Social Learning; Julie Rippingale 8. Feminist Agendas in Informal Education; Janet Batsleer 9. 'Race', Ethnicity and Young People; Momodou Sallah and Richard Kennedy 10. Inclusive And Accessible Citizenry: Making Spaces For Working With Young People With (Dis)Abilities; Susan Cullen 11. 'Imagining Otherwise' or Tinkering with the System?; Gill Hughes 12. Re-Imagining Ways Of Working With Young People In Education And Youth Work; Charlie Cooper, Sinead Gormally and Gill Hughes