This book tells five stories of a three-year leadership capacity
building program designed for residents of government housing
estates in Sydney's Eastern suburbs. It tells its stories through
the voices of the project leader and four participants. While the
project leader explains the workings of the project each of the
participants tells how it fitted into their life-story. They talk
of their childhood and growing up and sometimes precarious survival
at the poor end of town. The four insider stories are set beside
the program's intentions as seen by government funding body and
program managers, and the philosophical understanding that
underpinned the program leader's actions. In so doing the book
explores the relationship between: one person's theory; a community
development program in practice; and real life experience. It does
this not through a voice of authority commenting on people's lived
experience and attempting to relate this to the theory, but by
showing what the program meant to the project leader and what it
meant to each of the four participants. It tries to demonstrate,
but not explain, how these disparate meanings connected, or
otherwise, with the theory that the project leader believed she was
applying; and how in the end all knowledge is personal, built up
over a life time and stitched together with the threads of our
relationships in whatever environment we happen to inhabit.
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