
The Short Guide to Community Development
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This is a key text for all students and practitioners working with communities. It includes:
* a broad overview of core themes, concepts, basic practices and key issues in community development;
* an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on community life and well-being, along with the implications for longer-term community support;?
* additional brand new content on the pressing issues of?democratic decline, social fragmentation and isolation, social care pressures, technological developments and climate change.
Reviews / Votes
"It's an extremely useful publication, which presents some refreshingly straightforward observations, whilst acknowledging the complexity of the politics and the practice. I will recommend it to students". Mae Shaw, Institute of Education, University of Edinburgh"Great book. I really relied on it in class as language was accessible and practical examples connected with the students." Sharon Mallon, Staffordshire University "A great resource - so well written and informative." Sarah Banks, Professor of Community and Youth Work at Durham University "The history of UK community development is littered with the state's attempts to co-opt it to promote its own interests, however unfair and divisive. This excellent, elegant and easily digestible guide, written by two leading experts, cuts through the mystique to show precisely what community development should and should not be about." Gary Craig, Professor of Community Development and Social Justice at Durham University
"Great book. I really relied on it in class as language was accessible and practical examples connected with the students." Sharon Mallon, Staffordshire University
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Persons
Alison Gilchrist has worked for over three decades in community development: as an activist, practitioner, trainer, researcher and manager, including several years at the Community Development Foundation. She now works as an independent consultant.
Content
What is community development?
The changing context of community development
Theoretical concepts
Effective and ethical community development: what's needed?
Applying community development in different service areas
Challenges for practice
Current and future trends
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