Community Development For Social Change

Author : Dave Beck,Rod Purcell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315528595

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Community Development for Social Change by Dave Beck,Rod Purcell Pdf

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context. The book integrates the realities of practice to key underpinning theories, human rights, values and a commitment to promoting social justice. A range of practice models are described and analysed, including UK models, popular education and community organising, as well as a range of practice issues that need to be understood by community development workers. For example, strategies to promote individual and community empowerment, challenging discrimination, building and sustaining groups, and critical reflection on practice. Finally, a range of case studies from the UK and overseas illustrates good practice in diverse contexts. These case studies are analysed with reference to the values of community development, the promotion of social justice and the underpinning theories. It is an essential text for those on community development courses as well as for a range of workers, including local government, national and local voluntary agencies, and community-based organisations.

Author : David Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037488379

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First Person Plural by David Smith Pdf

David Smith has been at the centre of the movement for social change for 50 years. His long-standing work with countless communities has counteracted the competition, manipulation, misinformation, and the exploitation of enthusiasm that lie behind the "facade" of democratic procedures. In First Person Plural, he outlines his practical guide to popular democratic education. Here is essential reading for practitioners, policy makers, and activists working for social change in the fields of adult and popular education, community development, rural and urban planning, social services, health care, the environment, women's issues, international development, and peace.

Author : Eric Shragge,Michael Toye
Publisher : Sydney, N.S. : Cape Breton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000109152185

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Community Economic Development by Eric Shragge,Michael Toye Pdf

Communities have long been ahead of governments in responding to changes in the economy, forging ahead with innovative grassroots projects that now make up a substantial portion of economic development initiatives. Having made major gains in practice and having built local capacities through innovation, Community Economic Development now stands at a crossroads. In Building for Social Change, Eric Shragge, Michael Toye and colleagues from across the country offer a timely critical examination of CED practices and debates. This book is designed for CED practitioners, for others working in community-based organizations and those being trained. There are a growing number of post-secondary programs in English Canada that educate students in CED and related fields such as regional development, yet there are not many publications that provide analytical perspectives and debate. The goal of this book is to describe and analyze CED practice, primarily in Canada, through a wide range of subjects--the evolution of its definitions, economic dimensions and the key elements that form its context. Building for Social Change situates CED in wide political, economic and social contexts: rich examples of the scope and practices, and some of the limits--in Aboriginal communities, as a tool to support women, psychiatric survivor enterprises, housing and worker ownerships--are explored to help spur further critical discussion and debate.

Author : Gary Craig,Keith Popple,Mae Shaw
Publisher : Spokesman Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780851247304

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Community Development in Theory and Practice by Gary Craig,Keith Popple,Mae Shaw Pdf

Since its establishment in 1966, the Community Development Journal has maintained its position as the leading international journal for practitioners, academics and policy-makers across the world. To celebrate its fortieth anniversary, the CDJ's Editorial Board commissioned three highly experienced members, two of them former editors, to bring together a representative sample of the best writing from the Journal. The thirty chapters in this volume, including an entirely new introductory contextual essay, are drawn from every corner of the world, demonstrating the richness and diversity of community development theory and practice. Despite this diversity, the changing foci of community development and the varying contexts in which it is practised, the chapters all reflect the commitment of community development theorists and practitioners to engage critically with the key values of social justice -- equality, fairness, participatory development and respect for difference. This book will become a key text for those concerned with implementing these values in practice.

Author : Eric Shragge
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442606296

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Activism and Social Change by Eric Shragge Pdf

Drawing on over thirty years of experience in community development practice, Eric Shragge offers a unique historical perspective on activism, linking various forms of local organizing to the broader goal of fundamental social change. This new edition places contemporary community organizing in a post-9/11 context and includes a discussion of national and international organizing efforts—in the Middle East, in the Occupy movement, in European resistance to austerity measures, and in recent student protests in Quebec. A new chapter-length case study covering Shragge's long-term involvement with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal offers one of the few English-language discussions of community organizing in Quebec. Activism and Social Change is an excellent core or supplementary text in courses on social movements, community organizing, or community development.

Author : Deborah Lynch,Catherine Forde
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137308399

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Social Work and Community Development by Deborah Lynch,Catherine Forde Pdf

At a time of growing social, economic and environmental challenge, this book offers a fresh and engaging perspective on the connections between social work and community development and on how social workers can use a community development approach to practice in critical, creative and sustainable ways.

Author : Danesh A. Chekki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Community development
ISBN : UOM:39015015648952

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Community Development by Danesh A. Chekki Pdf

Author : Annette Coburn,Sinéad Gormally
Publisher : Counterpoints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Community development
ISBN : 1433129760

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Communities for Social Change by Annette Coburn,Sinéad Gormally Pdf

Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work. It informs understanding of a range of community concepts and practices that are used to identify practical skills and characteristics that can help to promote equality by challenging injustice. Working with people in different types of community can bring the kind of social change that makes a real and lasting difference. Although justice is a contested notion, Annette Coburn and Sinéad Gormally assert that it is closely interlinked with human rights and equality. A critical examination of contemporary literature draws on educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives, to set community practices within a context for learning that is conversational, critical and informal. Social justice is about identifying and seeking to address structural disadvantage, discrimination, and inequality. The authors assert that by refocusing on process, participation, and collective rights, it is possible to create and sustain social justice. Transformative research paradigms help to produce findings that inspire and underpin political social action, and an analysis of practice-based examples supports the promotion of increased critical consciousness. This makes Communities for Social Change a must-read for anyone studying or teaching community youth work or who is working in communities or with individuals who experience oppression or inequality. If you are committed to teaching and learning about theory and practice that promotes social change for equality and social justice, you will not be disappointed!

Author : Margaret Ledwith
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847428769

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Community Development in Action by Margaret Ledwith Pdf

In a world in which social divisions are widening not lessening, it is essential for community development, or any other practice committed to social justice and sustainability, to understand how power works at every level, from grassroots projects to movements for change. This exciting and practical book is filled to the brim with useful ideas for busy practitioners. Building on the work of Paulo Freire, theories are presented in interesting and straightforward ways to provide an everyday reference for practice. Contained in these pages is all you need to give your practice a critical edge!

Author : Conrad M. Arensberg,Arthur H. Niehoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:614272533

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Introducing Social Change by Conrad M. Arensberg,Arthur H. Niehoff Pdf

Author : Philip McMichael
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761986677

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Development and Social Change by Philip McMichael Pdf

The Second Edition of this popular textbook has been conceptually reworked to take account of the instabilities underlying the project of global development. While the conceptual framework of viewing development as shifting from a national, to a global, project remains, new issues such as the active engagement in the development project by Third World elites and peoples are considered. The first four chapters cover the rise and fall of the "development project" around the world. The next three cover the period of globalization, from the mid 1980s onwards. The final two chapters rethink globalization and development for the 21st century. Throughout, extensive use is made of case studies.

Author : Conrad M. Arensberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351511599

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Introducing Social Change by Conrad M. Arensberg Pdf

The development of industry in Europe and the United States has resulted in great marvels of production. However, non-Western nations, with a few exceptions, have not yet shared fully in this productivity, despite the desires of their leaders to do so. Also, in the United States, and in other industrial nations, there are sizeable minority groups which have not been fully assimilated into the productive pattern of the majority. Most live as poverty enclaves within the greater society. This socioeconomic imbalance has contributed to unrest in both the agrarian and industrial nations.Introducing Social Change deals with numerous topics of social change: cultural problems of change in general; a description of the concept of culture; a discussion of cultural change in its various forms; an introduction to the process of directed change; a discussion of the motivation necessary to bring about change; a treatment of the method of adapting an innovation to existing ideas and customs; the profile of the primary characteristics of most developing nations; the main characteristics and cultural values of America as a sample urban, industrial culture; and field problems of the change agent, and in particular those methods from anthropology that can be modified for use.Developments in the industrial countries, particularly the United States, have demonstrated the need for this second edition. When the original version was produced, little thought or activity was given to development efforts among ethnic minorities of industrial countries. Development was thought of almost exclusively as an activity relevant to the developing, non-industrial nations. It has become apparent that ethnic groups in industrial nations are also in need of economic development. Government policies, including funding, have been increasingly pointed in this direction.

Author : Marcela Vásquez-Léon,Brian J. Burke,Timothy J. Finan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780816534746

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Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change by Marcela Vásquez-Léon,Brian J. Burke,Timothy J. Finan Pdf

"Provides a cross-country comparison of smallholder agricultural cooperatives in Paraguay, Brazil and Colombia, revealing immense opportunities and challenges for community development, empowerment, and social change"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351749718

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Social Work as Community Development by Stephen Clarke Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: The second edition of Social Work as Community Development is thoroughly revised and updated taking into account lessons from community development and international experiences applicable in developed economies. The application of system theory to the problems of managing change is the core theme. The book will be essential reading for the UK DipSW/MScEcon in Applied Social Studies and MScEcon in Community Care Studies as well as for students of community development and social work in the USA, Asia and Australia. It will also be useful for practitioners and policy-makers across social work, social welfare and social policy.

Author : Eric Shragge
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060042895

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Activism and Social Change by Eric Shragge Pdf

"[T]his book connects the personal and the political to produce a sophisticated understanding of the potential of, as well as barriers to, local activism and community organizing...." - Robert Fisher, University of Connecticut