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  • Understanding Phenomenological Reflective Practice in the Social and Ecological Fields

    Three Rivers Flowing

    by Peter Westoby ...
    This book introduces social practitioners - community development workers, social workers, organisational change facilitators, social, ecological, cultural and political activists - to a phenomenological tradition of reflective practice.Critiquing reductionist, linear and ossified thinking in the social and ecological fields, the book offers an exciting new alternative that is honouring of the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Populism, Democracy and Community Development

    by Rebecca Fanany, Ismet Fanany, Andie Reynolds, Arto Salonen, Juha Hämäläinen, Keith Popple, Benny Witkovsky, Randy Stoecker, Marjorie Mayo ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    Using international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the relationships between community development and populism in the context of today’s widespread crisis of democracy.It investigates the development, meanings and manifestations of contemporary forms of populism and explores the synergies and contradictions between the values and practices of populism and community development ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ethics, Equity and Community Development

    by Loretta Pyles, Bipin Jojo, Len Collard, Pradeep Narayanan, Jeroen Gradener, Neil Barringham, Ann Walton, Satu Ranta-Trykkoe, Mike De Kreek, Lynda Shevellar, Keith Popple ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    This book offers a unique focus on the everyday ethics of community development practice in the context of local and global struggles for equity and social justice.Contributors from around the world (from India to the Netherlands and USA) grapple with ethical dilemmas and tensions, including how to: respect and learn from Indigenous values and philosophies; challenge environmental destruction; ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development

    International Perspectives

    by Peter Westoby, Gerard Dowling ...
    This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for ‘solving community problems’. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps the ground of community development practice within a frame of ideas such as dialogue, hospitality and depth. For the first time community ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Theorising the Practice of Community Development

    A South African Perspective

    by Peter Westoby ...
    Based on 25 years of community development practice, six of which have been lived in South Africa, Peter Westoby’s ground-breaking monograph moves away from dominant normative accounts of community development to provide an appreciative and critical analysis of concrete examples of community development theory and practice. By examining community development stories as experienced on the ground, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Soul, Community and Social Change

    Theorising a Soul Perspective on Community Practice

    by Peter Westoby ...
    At a time when inequalities are growing globally, when the pace of socio-economic transitions is rapid, and when traditional ties of community are under threat of dissolving, 'soul' offers a new way of thinking imaginatively about how people might respond both individually and collectively in social change work. In exploring ideas such as soul, soulful, 'soul of the world' and soul-force, Peter ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Community Development Research

    Edited by Lynda Shevellar, Peter Westoby ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook sets a new research agenda in community development. The contributors redefine existing areas within the context of interdisciplinary research, highlight emerging areas for community development related research, and provide researchers and post-graduate students with ideas and encouragement for future research activity. To do this, the editors have deliberately chosen to frame this ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Learning and Mobilising for Community Development

    A Radical Tradition of Community-Based Education and Training

    by Lynda Shevellar ...
    Learning and Mobilising for Community Development introduces the reader to different ways of thinking about, and organising community-based education and training within different settings. Stories from the global south and north illustrate approaches to collective learning and collective action. The book provides not only an insight into the how-to of community-based education and training, but ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Participation in Community Work

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Karin Larsen, Vishanthie Sewpaul, Grete Oline Hole ...
    Participation is a key community work method and this text, written by an international selection of authors, covers innovative approaches in community based education and practice. Including real-life case studies of participatory practice, it offers new definitions of community work, organisation and development and will challenge and inspire all those involved in community work practice and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Future of Educational Change

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Ciaran Sugrue ...
    This timely book provides a systematic overview and critique of contemporary approaches to educational change from some of the best-known writers and scholars in the field, including Andy Hargreaves, Larry Cuban, Ivor Goodson, Jeannie Oakes, Milbrey McLaughlin, Judyth Sachs and Ann Liebermann.Divided into four sections, the book addresses the key themes:What has been the impact of educational ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment

    Edited by Heidi Gottfried, Stephen Edgell, Edward Granter ...
    The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment is a landmark collection of original contributions by leading specialists from around the world.The coverage is both comprehensive and comparative (in terms of time and space) and each ‘state of the art’ chapter provides a critical review of the literature combined with some thoughts on the direction of research. This authoritative text is ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Development Education in Policy and Practice

    by Stephen McCloskey ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Development education is a radical form of learning that addresses the structural causes of poverty and injustice in the global North and South. This volume debates development education practice and the policy environment in which it is delivered. It affirmatively points to the transformative power of education as a means toward social change. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD