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Short Guide to Community Development de Alison Gilchrist

Short Guide to Community Development

Autor Alison Gilchrist, Marilyn Taylor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 ian 2022
The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it. 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781447360728
ISBN-10: 1447360729
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:00003
Editura: Policy Press

Notă biografică

Alison Gilchrist is an independent consultant who has worked in community development for over 40 years as an activist, practitioner, trainer, researcher and manager.

Descriere

The third edition of this long-established guide offers an invaluable, authoritative and concise introduction to community development. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance.

Cuprins

List of tables and boxes

1. Introduction
Further reading

2. What is community development?
Underpininning principles and process
Providing help, building on resources
Community development’s core values
An integrated approach
Related models
Brief conclusion
Summary 
Further reading

3. The changing policy context
How community policies have developed
Constant themes in community policy
Brief conclusion
Summary
Further reading

4. Theoretical concepts
What theory offers
Theories of community
Psychological concepts and theories
Theories of power: structure or agency?
Organisations and institutions: how agency is organized
Systems and ecological approaches
Social movement theory
Brief conclusion 
Summary
Further reading

5. Effective and ethical community development: what’s needed?
Working with people in groups and organisations
Dealing with difficulties
Working with organisations
Networking and engagements
Getting to know the community
Resources and support
Supporting opportunities to learn
Working with volunteers and activists
Communication and knowledge management
Using and influencing policies
Competencies and core values
Brief conclusion 
Summary
Further reading

6. Applying community development in different service areas
Environmental action and sustainable development
Economic responses to poverty and social exclusion
Health and wellbeing
Community arts, crafts and culture
Brief conclusion
Summary
Further reading

7. Challenges for practice
Developing a strategic approach
Orientation
Status and recognition
Role boundaries
Community belonging: place and identity?
Equality and diversity
Leadership and representation issues
Accountability
Mainstreaming, targeted or specialist work?
Demonstrating impact: measuring the social return
Professional standards and ethics
Brief conclusion
Summary
Further reading

8. Future prospects
Developments since 2011
Neoliberal globalization
The shrinking state: preserving the public sphere
Redefining community: migration and its significance for place
The digital age
A new politics
Climate change and sustainable development
Bringing it all together
Summary
Further reading

Appendix: Resources
The main community development organisations in the UK
International community development organisations
Opportunities for further study or training

Index

Recenzii

“Community development has undergone substantial changes in the past five years. This extensively revised edition of the Short Guide captures those changes succinctly and accessibly. Crucially, it poses a number of important challenges for the future of community development values, theory, and practice. Essential reading.”

“Accessible and clear, whilst avoiding oversimplification, The Short Guide to Community Development provides an excellent basis for understanding both the appeal and the difficulty of contemporary community development.”