Assessment task 3 Comparative analysis of two Youth Work settings

Due date: Sunday, May 17

Length: 2000 words

Description: In this assessment you will submit an essay that analyses and compares two youth work settings, and you will draw on theoretical and professional bodies of knowledge to assist you to do this. Begin by picking two youth work setting that you are interested in researching and analysing. Then research these settings to collect the data you need to write your essay. Only use secondary source material (do not conduct interviews). 

Your essay will include the following:

• An introduction: Introduce the reader to the essay, and briefly and clearly introduce the sequence of arguments in your essay
• Youth work setting profiles: The next two sections of your essay will profile the two youth work settings. The profiles should be approximately 700 words each and should provide the reader a clear picture of what and where the setting is, what it does, who works there, how it works with and/or for young people, why it exists, and how it connects with and is shaped by the policies, contexts and ideas in which the setting is located. All claims should be supported with relevant evidence that is correctly referenced
• Comparative analysis: In the next section of your essay compare the two settings. Some questions to help guide your comparative analysis include: how are the settings similar or different, and what helps to explain these differences? In what ways do the settings reveal young people, youth workers and youth work in similar or different ways, and why is this the case? The comparative analysis should identify and analyse four ways the settings are similar or different, and it should be approximately 400 words
• Key lessons: in the final section of your essay describe two things you have learnt from the setting profiles and the comparative analysis about youth work, and describe the significance of these lessons for your emerging professional youth worker identity

Assessment criteria:

• Clearly introduces the essay
• Profiles the first youth work setting, what and where the setting is, what it does, who works there, how it works with and/or for young people, why it exists, and how it is connects with and is shaped by the policies, contexts and ideas in which the setting is located. Support all claims with relevant academic and practice-based literature
• Profiles the second youth work setting, what and where the setting is, what it does, who works there, how it works with and/or for young people, why it exists, and how it is connects with and is shaped by the policies, contexts and ideas in which the setting is located. Support all claims with relevant academic and practice-based literature
• Describes and analyses four ways the settings are similar or different
• Describes two key lessons from the setting profiles and the comparative analysis about youth work, and describes the significance of these lessons on the development of their youth worker identity
• Submits original work that is clearly expressed, professionally formatted and proof read