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Challenging the Professions - Frontiers for Rural Development (Paperback)
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Challenging the Professions - Frontiers for Rural Development (Paperback)
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This text questions the dominant approaches of professions,
disciplines and bureaucracies concerned with rural development. The
theme is that "we" - the professionals - are much of the problem.
New frontiers can be opened up by breaking out of, and reversing,
many of the ideas, values, methods and behaviour normally dominant
in disciplines and departments by offsetting biases,
decentralizing, encouraging diversity, and putting people before
things, and poor people first of all.;These themes are explored and
illuminated through analysis of different topics and contexts:
normal professionalism and new paradigms; modes of thought and
procedures; poverty-focused projects and the project process;
tropical seasonality; agricultural research and extension; NGOs'
comparative competence with new participatory approaches and
methods; and an ideology of reversals with practical pluralism, to
dismantle the disabling state and empower the poor. Throughout, and
drawing on 30 years' experience, the author analyzes past errors
and achievements, in order to identify practical action for the
future.;This text has been written and compiled for all those who
are professionally concerned with rural poverty and development,
whether in government service, NGOs, universities, training and
research institutes, or aid agencies in the South and the North, in
the peripheries and the cores. In addressing the themes, the eight
chapters are self-contained and convenient for reading and
teaching. The book should have practical implications for
practitioners, academics, policy-makers and researchers of all
departments and disciplines.
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