
Community Work
Alan Twelvetrees(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 18. June 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-4039-4999-8 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on his own professional experience, Alan Twelvetrees addresses the needs of students, field-level community workers and managers. Both theory and practice are described in a highly readable and honest way and the updated fourth edition of this
bestseller includes placing community work at the centre of neighbourhood renewal.
bestseller includes placing community work at the centre of neighbourhood renewal.
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Series
Edition
4th ed. 2008
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
256 p.
Dimensions
Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 13.8 cm
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-4999-8 (9781403949998)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-12068-7
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition

Alan C. Twelvetrees
Community Work
Book
09/2001
3rd Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€22.27
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Person
ALAN TWELVETREES has been a community worker, a community work lecturer, a manager of community workers, and a children and young people strategy manger. He has published widely in the fields of community work, community organizations and community economic development.
Content
What is Community Work?.- Planning for Effective Community Work.- Helping Set up and Run Community Groups.- Dealing with Practical issues in Community Groups.- Survival, Personal Development and Reflective Practice.- Social Planning Approaches to Community Work.- Community Work, Social Change and Broad Based Organising.- Advanced Practice.- Specialist Community Work.- Community Work and Public Policy.- Conclusions.