Browsing by Author "Dolan, Patrick"
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From care packages to Zoom cookery classes: youth work during the COVID-19 “lockdown”
Shaw, Aileen; Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Patrick (Emerald, 2022-03-10)Purpose: This paper explores the experience of one large Irish youth work organisation, Foróige, to measures introduced during the initial phase of Covid-19 in 2020. In the face of the unprecedented crisis including the ... -
'He told me to calm down and all that': a qualitative study of social support types in a youth mentoring programme
Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Patrick; Canavan, John (Wiley, 2015-05-06)The worldwide growth in formal youth mentoring programmes over the past two decades is partly a response to the perception that young people facing adversity do not have access to supportive relationships with adults and ... -
What added value does peer support bring? Insights from principles and teachers on the utility and challenges of a school based mentoring programme
Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Patrick; Canavan, John (Taylor & Francis, 2014-09-24)Over the past decade, there has been greater attention placed on the potential value of peer support models, particularly in school contexts. This paper uses the case study of an Irish school-based peer mentoring programme ... -
Zambian Perspectives: A participatory contextualisation of Youth Civic Engagement (YCE) from both youth and adult Zambian perspectives
McArdle, Sheila Ann (2012-10-26)In the contemporary adult centered world, global policy has placed young people at the centre of the civic engagement debate. A universal definition of youth civic engagement (YCE) is lacking. The current YCE literature ...