Community development : a critical approach
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Bibliographic Information
Community development : a critical approach
Policy Press, 2005
- : pbk
- : hardcover
Available at 13 libraries
Note
First published: Birmingham : Venture Press , 1997
"A BASW/Policy Press title"--Cover
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-190) and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9781861346957
Description
Margaret Ledwith is one of the UK's most highly regarded community development practitioners and academics. This book, developed from her classic text, "Participating in Transformation", is an invaluable new resource for students and practitioners in the field. The book advocates a critical approach to community development that locates theory in practice, emphasising its transformative rather than ameliorative potential. Grounded in the pedagogy of Paulo Freire and drawing on feminist and other relevant theories, it helps readers to:gain an understanding of key community development theories; develop practical skills alongside the ability to analyse and reflect; situate local practice within a global context. The text is brought to life through a series of narrative case studies, drawn from the author's own experiences, which clearly illustrate how to apply the ideas, models and analyses discussed. Dimensions of practice ranging from the personal to the political, and the local to the global, are addressed in relation to current crises of poverty, justice and sustainability.
Practitioners, students and educators involved in community development, youth and community work, social work, health and education, as well as those in other professions that have a community development focus, will find this an invaluable contribution to theory and practice today.
Table of Contents
- Foreword ~ Ira Shor
- Opening thoughts
- Why empower?
- The story of a community
- Doing community development
- Organising in the community
- Collective action for change
- The power of ideas
- Critiques of Freire and Gramsci
- Towards a Freirean-feminist pedagogy
- The way forward.
- Volume
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: hardcover ISBN 9781861346964
Description
Margaret Ledwith is one of the UK's most highly regarded community development practitioners and academics. This book, developed from her classic text, "Participating in Transformation", is an invaluable new resource for students and practitioners in the field. The book advocates a critical approach to community development that locates theory in practice, emphasising its transformative rather than ameliorative potential. Grounded in the pedagogy of Paulo Freire, and drawing on feminist and other relevant theories, it helps readers to: gain an understanding of key community development theories; develop practical skills alongside the ability to analyse and reflect; and situate local practice within a global context. The text is brought to life through a series of narrative case studies, drawn from the author's own experiences, which clearly illustrate how to apply the ideas, models and analyses discussed. Dimensions of practice ranging from the personal to the political, and the local to the global, are addressed in relation to current crises of poverty, justice and sustainability.
Practitioners, students and educators involved in community development, youth and community work, social work, health and education, as well as those in other professions that have a community development focus, will find this an invaluable contribution to theory and practice today.
Table of Contents
- Foreword ~ Ira Shor
- Opening thoughts
- Why empower?
- The story of a community
- Doing community development
- Organising in the community
- Collective action for change
- The power of ideas
- Critiques of Freire and Gramsci
- Towards a Freirean-feminist pedagogy
- The way forward.
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