ABSTRACT
Practice knowledge or professional craft knowledge is gained from experience on the job. Practice knowledge is accumulated by doing the work over time and having opportunities to reflect-on-practice. Ethical dilemmas can be among the hardest challenges faced by practitioners. The youth workers draw from their personal knowledge, knowledge that is the product of their own life and family experiences and events. One crosscutting feature of the strategies employed by expert youth workers is that they craft youth-centered responses. One can revisit the Ecological Dilemma Resolution (EDR) model as a tool to enhance novice and expert youth workers ecological intelligence, and discuss ways that this model can be integrated into youth worker professional education. Everyday youth work is rife with extraordinarily complex dilemmas. People need professional development that accounts for and fosters reflection on the complex reality of everyday youth work practice.
