| Critical Community Practice Contributor(s): Butcher, Hugh L. (Author), With (Author), Banks, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 186134791X ISBN-13: 9781861347916 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: With the increasing focus on 'community' as the site for renewing democracy, improving policymaking, and enhancing service delivery, this book provides a challenging approach to understanding community practice. It offers a much-needed theoretical perspective, sets out an analysis of power and empowerment, and explores new ways of understanding active citizenship. Demands being placed on individuals and organizations involved in community programs have become increasingly complex and greater clarity about community practice is needed. This book provides just that and is designed to complement the authors' edited volume Managing Community Practice. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Social Work |
| Dewey: 307.14 |
| LCCN: 2008378240 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.65 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With the increasing focus on 'community' as the site for renewing democracy, improving policymaking and enhancing service delivery, this book provides a challenging approach to understanding community practice. It offers a much-needed theoretical perspective, sets out an analysis of power and empowerment and explores new ways of understanding active citizenship. The book covers a wide range of theoretical and practice topics. First presenting a model of critical community practice, the authors draw upon a variety of case studies from Britain and elsewhere to discuss this in the context of work in and with community groups; management; policy and politics; and development of the critical practitioner. Demands being placed on individuals and organisations have become increasingly complex and greater clarity about community practice is needed. This book, designed to complement the authors' edited volume Managing Community Practice (The Policy Press, 2003) provides just that. The book's content will be of particular interest to those following the debates on community involvement in regeneration, social inclusion and health improvement programmes. It will provide a resource for those already engaged in community practice and thus inform the work of local authorities, government agencies, voluntary organisations and partnerships. It will be relevant reading for all those people working to promote change and development in communities. It will also be an essential text for students on a range of professional and management programmes in community development, health, housing, planning and other disciplines with a community focus. |
Contributor Bio(s): Butcher, Hugh: - Hugh Butcher was head of the Department of Community Studies at Bradford College, UK.Henderson, Paul: - Paul Henderson is honorary professor of earth sciences at University College London and former director of science at the Natural History Museum in London. His most recent book is The Cambridge Handbook of Earth Science Data.Robertson, Jim: - Jim Robertson was senior lecturer in community work studies at Northumbria University.Banks, Sarah: - Sarah Banks is codirector of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action and professor in the School of the Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. |