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It is increasingly recognised that instead of relying on top-down
commands or leaving individuals to their own devices, communities
should be given a role in tackling challenges exacerbated by global
crises. Written by a team of leading experts with in-depth
knowledge and on-the-ground experience, this book sets out why and
how people's lives can be positively transformed through diverse
forms of community involvement. This book critically explores
examples from around the world of how communities can become more
collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face,
and provides an invaluable guide to what a holistic policy agenda
for community-based transformation should encompass.
It is increasingly recognised that instead of relying on top-down
commands or leaving individuals to their own devices, communities
should be given a role in tackling challenges exacerbated by global
crises. Written by a team of leading experts with in-depth
knowledge and on-the-ground experience, this book sets out why and
how people's lives can be positively transformed through diverse
forms of community involvement. This book critically explores
examples from around the world of how communities can become more
collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face,
and provides an invaluable guide to what a holistic policy agenda
for community-based transformation should encompass.
As local communities and public services reel under the impact of
global economic turmoil, it is vital to find more creative ways for
the services to work together with those who depend on them and who
also, as citizens, ultimately govern them. Community practice is
the name for that growing part of the relationship by which service
providers and local residents collaborate flexibly and economically
to meet needs, boost community strengths and service effectiveness,
and link participative and representative democracy. Combining
re-examination of theory with practical tools and approaches,
Chanan and Miller provide a new framework for local involvement
strategy, for policy-makers and practitioners alike. They show how
this innovative but still amorphous movement can become more
coherent, both on the ground and in public policy: reforming
community development, building new kinds of neighbourhood
partnership, measuring outcomes objectively, and combining the best
innovations of the past three decades into a new synthesis. This is
an important new perspective for all local public service agencies,
all practitioners working in communities, and academics and
students concerned with these fields.
As local communities and public services reel under the impact of
global economic turmoil, it is vital to find more creative ways for
the services to work together with those who depend on them and who
also, as citizens, ultimately govern them. Community practice is
the name for that growing part of the relationship by which service
providers and local residents collaborate flexibly and economically
to meet needs, boost community strengths and service effectiveness,
and link participative and representative democracy. Combining
re-examination of theory with practical tools and approaches,
Chanan and Miller provide a new framework for local involvement
strategy, for policy-makers and practitioners alike. They show how
this innovative but still amorphous movement can become more
coherent, both on the ground and in public policy: reforming
community development, building new kinds of neighbourhood
partnership, measuring outcomes objectively, and combining the best
innovations of the past three decades into a new synthesis. This is
an important new perspective for all local public service agencies,
all practitioners working in communities, and academics and
students concerned with these fields.
"A Degree of Swing" will bring back many memories for those who
grew up in the early 1960s and experienced the radical changes to
popular culture through music and fashion. It questions whether the
supposed excesses of the 'swinging sixties' were as widespread as
social history suggests. The period 1958-64 saw radical changes to
the lives of most young people and the beginnings of a culture for
the young based around popular music and fashion. Colin Miller's
memories of his life as a working class student in the city of
Leicester help to illustrate these changes, as well as highlighting
the many personal and social challenges that confronted young men
on the threshold of adulthood at that time. He also recalls the
people and events that shaped his musical development and eventual
involvement in the beat music scene of the city and its university.
This book will bring back many memories for people who grew up in
the early 1960s and will help later generations to appreciate how
very different personal experiences and expectations were for young
men and women fifty or so years ago. It also questions whether the
supposed excesses of the 'swinging sixties' were as widespread as
popular history suggests.
Colin Miller was born in 1940 in Rollesby, a village near Great
Yarmouth in the heart of Broadland Norfolk. In Rollesby, as in so
many other rural communities at this time, drinking water was from
a well, the lavatory was a bucket in an outside privy, transport
was a bicycle or a bus, and entertainment was provided by the
radio, whist drives at the village hall or a rare visit to the
cinema. As the 1940s and '50s progressed this way of life changed
dramatically, some would say disappeared - and Colin Miller
chronicles these developments through the eyes of a Norfolk
schoolboy and teenager. Developing themes such as school days,
health, work, entertainment, sport and leisure, this honest and
thoughtful account also includes brief extracts from the local
newspapers, reporting local events and illustrating the social
change experienced by the author.
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