Chapter 19: Working Ethically Across Difference
Keywords:black people; Vietnamese people; workers; young people; young person; youth; youth work
Cross-cultural work, or working across difference, is typical within the youth work field, and is becoming more so the more globalised the world becomes. Ethical practice in the face of sometimes striking cultural difference is more complex than in a single cultural environment (if any such thing exists). In the face of prejudice and negative discrimination routinely experienced by members of minority groups, it is all the more necessary to think critically and reflectively about our practice, especially the often unconscious tendency to prefer our own kind, to see our ways as superior, our arrangements as normal, our people as better, and our cultures as more advanced or progressive.
The last chapter dealt with the core principles of justice ...
Sercombe, H. (2010). Working ethically across difference. In Youth work ethics (pp. 154-158). SAGE Publications Ltd, https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781446251492.n19
Sercombe, Howard. "Working Ethically Across Difference." In Youth Work Ethics, 154-58. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446251492.n19.
Sercombe, H. 2010. Working Ethically Across Difference. In: 2010. Youth Work Ethics, London: SAGE Publications Ltd. pp. 154-158 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781446251492.n19> [Accessed 9 Dec 2021].
Sercombe, Howard. "Working Ethically Across Difference." Youth Work Ethics. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010, pp. 154-58. SAGE Knowledge. 9 Dec 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781446251492.n19.