Tim's Blog

One of the 7 reasons I gave for getting youth workers blogging was to foster reflective practice. Michelle Martin offered her reflections in the comments about the role of blogging for professional development:

The Young Researcher Network have just launched their programme of basic training for their network of 15 youth-led research projects (I created some resources for their launch conference in December last year) - and they're planning what training will come next. So far, with help from the Centre for Social Action they're going to be looking at:

How different is a 6 year old from a 15 year old?

And how different is a 36 year old from a 45 year old?

You will probably agree with me that the difference in the first case is a lot more significant than that in the second.

So how come the 36 year old and 45 year old are likely to find themselves getting their own age brackets on many surveys (are you aged: 25 - 35?, 36 - 45?, 46 - 55? etc.) when the 6 year old and 15 year old will most likely find themelves lumped together a in the 0 - 19 bracket?

Ok. Here are some possible reasons: