community development reader

Name: community development reader | History, Themes and Issues
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History, Themes and Issues

Gary Craig(Editor)

The Policy Press

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Published on 1. December 2011

362 pages

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Intro
The community development reader
Contents
Sources of extracts
Acknowledgments
Section I
Introduction: community development in the United Kingdom
Section 2: In and against the state: 1950s to the late 1970s
Introduction
2.1: The non-directive approach in group and community work
The directive approach: planning and providing FOR people
The non-directive approach
Conditions necessary for self-directed action
The worker's role in groups
The worker's role with individuals
The potential advantages of the non-directive approach
Its limitations
Factors affecting choice
2.2: Working with community groups: using community development as a method of social work
Forms of leadership
Stages of group development
The worker
The agency
2.3: Rules for radicals: a pragmatic primer for realistic radicals
Prologue
The process of power
2.4: Community as fact and value
Community as a value in the sociological tradition
Community and the whole man
Community and social divisions
Community and the loss of political involvement
Community: the British tradition
Freedom, individualisation and the loss of community
2.5: Community development: a radical alternative?
Where has the notion of community development sprung from?
Community development as applied in contemporary United States and British urban situations
2.6: Community participation: past and future
Changing people
Changing institutions
Criticisms of participation
Planning and accountability
Democracy
Authenticity
The future of participation
2.7: Gilding the ghetto: the state and the poverty experiments
2.8: In and against the state
Anger, resistance and the making of socialism
Holding to what we have learned
Section 3: In and against the market: mid- to late 1970s to early 1990s
Introduction
3.1: Community action over local planning issues
Introduction
Conflict over office development policies
Conclusion
3.2: The boundaries of change in community work
Community work in the interjacence
The community group
3.3: Change and conflict: a defence of local community action
The social planning approach to community work
A defence of local community action
The radical left approach
Social control and the welfare establishment
Conclusion
3.4: Racism: the response of community work
Prejudice
Racism
Discrimination
3.5: The difference between education and organizing
3.6: The politics of participation
The marginalisation of participation
Participation and power
Resolving the paradox of participation
Conclusion
3.7: Equality and difference - what's in a concept?
Introduction to the debate
Conceptual and theoretical issues
New theorising - implications for practice
Community practice - difference and equality
Crossing boundaries
Conclusion
3.8: Women in the community: feminist principles and organising in community work
Feminist principles of organising
The relevance of feminist principles of traditional community work
Introduction
4.1: Education, conflict and community development in Northern Ireland
Introduction
Community development in the 1970s
The role of government
Community development in the 1980s and 1990s
The role of education
Conclusion
4.2: Models of community work
Community care
Community organization
Community development
Social/community planning
Community education
Community action
Feminist community work
Black and anti-racist community work
Conclusion
4.3: Community development at the crossroads: a way forward
Introduction
Community development at the crossroads
Structure and agency: the role of practitioners
Community development as the new vision
What future for community development
Change and the individual
Community development as a process for welfare intervention
The extension of democracy
The repoliticisation of public life
4.4: When 'active citizenship' becomes 'mob rule'
4.5: Inequalities in health: contested explanations, shifting discourses and ambiguous policies
Introduction
The health inequalities debate
Contemporary models: overlaps and discontinuities
Discourses of inequality
Redistributionist discourse (RED)
Moral underclass discourse (MUD)
Social integrationist discourse (SID)
Shifting discourses
4.6: The significance of global citizen action
Lessons for good practice
Challenges for the future
4.7: Whose problem? Disability narratives and available identities
Oppressive images
Disability arts
An affirmative model of disability
Conclusion
4.8: The changing terrain of multi-culture: from anti-oppressive practice to community cohesion
4.9: Community capacity-building: something old, something new.?,2
Introduction
The nature of 'community'
The practice of community development
Community capacity-building: scope and definitions
Capacity and partnership
A critique of community capacity-building
Conclusion
4.10: Reclaiming the radical agenda: a critical approach to community development
Introduction
The policy context
A radical agenda
Critical praxis
4.11: Community participation in the real world
The theory: from government to governance
Transferring responsibility downwards
Becoming active subjects
The implications for government and communities
Communities
4.12: Community development and the politics of community
The problem of community
Community as 'fact' and 'value'
The contrived community
Community as possibility
Conclusion
Afterword
References
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