Guides to adulthood
Historically, youth work has viewed young people as quasi-adults, individuals needing to be guided towards and primed for adulthood. For approximately a century, practice has been wedded to a concept of transition born out of a theory of adolescence that perceived the teenage years to be singularly dangerous - when life's die is cast for good or ill. Such theories under-write the Connexions service as surely as they did those "old-school" agencies launched long ago. Young people, it was universally assumed, were less mature, less responsible, less grown up than adults. Therefore they needed youth services, and now Connexions, to monitor their progress and behaviour, to guide them to maturity.
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