Brian Belton and Simon Frost provide a starting point for an approach and direction to teaching and learning in the context youth work education at the professional level. While a good deal has been written about youth work practice, material specifically devoted to the content and method of teaching of the discipline is scant. At the same time, all too often those involved professional youth work training find themselves absorbed into forums, programme content and teaching and learning strategies not wholly suited to their specialist function or professional trajectory. This has not helped the status of the profession or the development of best practice in the field. As such Belton and Frost, senior tutors in the UK"s largest and leading institution (the YMCA George Williams College in East London) specifically devoted to the professional development of youth workers, make a timely and authoritative endeavour to build a foundation on which this deficit might begin to be...