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Introduces social practitioners - a broad definition for those
working in the social field, including social workers, community
development workers, organisational change facilitators, social,
ecological, cultural and political activists - to a
phenomenological tradition of social practice. Presents a
philosophical, personal and practical book on how to live and work
in the social field with a new approach to observation, aliveness
and complexity. Relevant to all courses on complexity in social
work and human services. Of interest to all social workers,
development and social practitioners, community workers, activists,
and organizational development facilitators.
Introduces social practitioners - a broad definition for those
working in the social field, including social workers, community
development workers, organisational change facilitators, social,
ecological, cultural and political activists - to a
phenomenological tradition of social practice. Presents a
philosophical, personal and practical book on how to live and work
in the social field with a new approach to observation, aliveness
and complexity. Relevant to all courses on complexity in social
work and human services. Of interest to all social workers,
development and social practitioners, community workers, activists,
and organizational development facilitators.
This handbook sets a new research agenda in community development.
The contributors redefine existing areas within the context of
interdisciplinary research, highlight emerging areas for community
development related research, and provide researchers and
post-graduate students with ideas and encouragement for future
research activity. To do this, the editors have deliberately chosen
to frame this book not through a traditional sociological lens of
class, race and gender, but through a "Wicked Problems" framework.
Drawing upon the work of 37 international authors, in diverse
settings such as West Papua, Peru, the USA and Australia; and with
methodologies equally as diverse, from case studies and interviews
to the use of music and story-telling, this handbook focuses upon
five Wicked Problems: forced displacement; family, gender and child
related violence; indigenous marginalisation; climate change and
food security; and human survival in the context of disaster and
recovery work. By drawing together leading scholars from community
development, social work and social policy, this handbook provides
an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as
signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book
is both an invaluable resource for both scholars and practitioners
and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom and in
the field.
Learning and Mobilising for Community Development introduces the
reader to different ways of thinking about, and organising
community-based education and training within different settings.
Stories from the global south and north illustrate approaches to
collective learning and collective action. The book provides not
only an insight into the how-to of community-based education and
training, but through a range of applications, demonstrates the
often unspoken shadow side of the developmental work we undertake.
The first section of the book outlines the key elements that
underpin effective community-based education and training. It then
locates community-based education and training within a broader
pedagogical project, by tracing the tradition of transformative
learning and education. The second half of the book focuses on
stories and practice, distilling the application of theory and
frameworks. The practitioners within this book emerge from unique
and challenging contexts. From civil resistance in West Papua and
youth empowerment in South Africa to financial freedom in
Australia, these diverse experiences speak to a common quest for
social change and justice.
At a time when inequalities are growing globally, when the pace of
socio-economic transitions is rapid, and when traditional ties of
community are under threat of dissolving, 'soul' offers a new way
of thinking imaginatively about how people might respond both
individually and collectively in social change work. In exploring
ideas such as soul, soulful, 'soul of the world' and soul-force,
Peter Westoby invites readers to disrupt their taken-for-granted
assumptions about community practice and to foreground ethics,
quality, being and the aesthetic. Drawing on work of people such as
James Hillman, Thomas Moore and 'Bifo' Beradi, he insists on the
need to bring more depth into practice, eschewing contemporary
trends of soulless analysis, measuring, and technique. Written in
dialogue with eight practitioner-scholars from around the world,
the book suggests a fresh terrain for community work and social
change theorising. Illustrated by images of Australian
cartoonist-prophet Michael Leunig, the book also promises to unlock
new imaginative spaces for dreaming. A soul perspective will
resonate with people searching for both a robust socio-political
response to the world and an imaginative, poetic and mindful
centring of self, 'other' and the planet to their practice.
At a time when inequalities are growing globally, when the pace of
socio-economic transitions is rapid, and when traditional ties of
community are under threat of dissolving, 'soul' offers a new way
of thinking imaginatively about how people might respond both
individually and collectively in social change work. In exploring
ideas such as soul, soulful, 'soul of the world' and soul-force,
Peter Westoby invites readers to disrupt their taken-for-granted
assumptions about community practice and to foreground ethics,
quality, being and the aesthetic. Drawing on work of people such as
James Hillman, Thomas Moore and 'Bifo' Beradi, he insists on the
need to bring more depth into practice, eschewing contemporary
trends of soulless analysis, measuring, and technique. Written in
dialogue with eight practitioner-scholars from around the world,
the book suggests a fresh terrain for community work and social
change theorising. Illustrated by images of Australian
cartoonist-prophet Michael Leunig, the book also promises to unlock
new imaginative spaces for dreaming. A soul perspective will
resonate with people searching for both a robust socio-political
response to the world and an imaginative, poetic and mindful
centring of self, 'other' and the planet to their practice.
Based on 25 years of community development practice, six of which
have been lived in South Africa, Peter Westoby's ground-breaking
monograph moves away from dominant normative accounts of community
development to provide an appreciative and critical analysis of
concrete examples of community development theory and practice. By
examining community development stories as experienced on the
ground, Westoby is able to show how the poor are organising
themselves using various forms of community development as well as
demonstrating how the state and non-state actors are attempting to
organise, engage or accompany the poor through community
development. The book also breaks new ground in theorising the
practice of community development, drawing inductively from the
stories analysed. The diversity of South African contexts and the
proliferation of different kinds of community practice, make this a
hugely difficult task. Despite this, Westoby argues it is one worth
undertaking given the seriousness of the challenges facing the poor
and progressive social change agents within South Africa. In this
undertaking, Westoby draws upon a unique analytical framework to
help illuminate current community development policy and programme
challenges, along with practice dilemmas and wisdom.
This book offers a unique focus on the everyday ethics of community
development practice in the context of local and global struggles
for equity and social justice. Contributors from around the world
(from India to the Netherlands and USA) grapple with ethical
dilemmas and tensions, including how to: respect and learn from
Indigenous values and philosophies; challenge environmental
destruction; gain consent in divided communities; maintain or
breach professional boundaries; and develop new paradigms for
transformative community organising, sustainable development and
ethically-sensitive practice. Offering theoretical frameworks,
philosophical perspectives and practical case examples (from sex
worker collectives to tree action groups and Australian Indigenous
communities) this book is essential reading for community-based
practitioners, students and academics.
This book proposes that community development has been increasingly
influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational
philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving
community problems'. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps
the ground of community development practice within a frame of
ideas such as dialogue, hospitality and depth. For the first time
community development practitioners are provided with an accessible
understanding of dialogue and its relevance to their practice,
exploring the contributions of internationally significant thinkers
such as P. Freire, M. Buber, D. Bohm and H.G Gadamer, J. Derrida,
G. Esteva and R. Sennett. What makes the book distinctive is that:
first, it identifies a dialogical tradition of community
development and considers how such a tradition shapes practice
within contemporary contexts and concerns - economic, social,
political, cultural and ecological. Second, the book contrasts such
an approach with technical and instrumental approaches to
development that fail to take complex systems seriously. Third, the
approach links theory to practice through a combination of
storytelling and theory-reflection - ensuring that readers are
drawn into a practice-theory that they feel increasingly confident
has been 'tried and tested' in the world over the past 25 years.
Learning and Mobilising for Community Development introduces the
reader to different ways of thinking about, and organising
community-based education and training within different settings.
Stories from the global south and north illustrate approaches to
collective learning and collective action. The book provides not
only an insight into the how-to of community-based education and
training, but through a range of applications, demonstrates the
often unspoken shadow side of the developmental work we undertake.
The first section of the book outlines the key elements that
underpin effective community-based education and training. It then
locates community-based education and training within a broader
pedagogical project, by tracing the tradition of transformative
learning and education. The second half of the book focuses on
stories and practice, distilling the application of theory and
frameworks. The practitioners within this book emerge from unique
and challenging contexts. From civil resistance in West Papua and
youth empowerment in South Africa to financial freedom in
Australia, these diverse experiences speak to a common quest for
social change and justice.
Based on 25 years of community development practice, six of which
have been lived in South Africa, Peter Westoby's ground-breaking
monograph moves away from dominant normative accounts of community
development to provide an appreciative and critical analysis of
concrete examples of community development theory and practice. By
examining community development stories as experienced on the
ground, Westoby is able to show how the poor are organising
themselves using various forms of community development as well as
demonstrating how the state and non-state actors are attempting to
organise, engage or accompany the poor through community
development. The book also breaks new ground in theorising the
practice of community development, drawing inductively from the
stories analysed. The diversity of South African contexts and the
proliferation of different kinds of community practice, make this a
hugely difficult task. Despite this, Westoby argues it is one worth
undertaking given the seriousness of the challenges facing the poor
and progressive social change agents within South Africa. In this
undertaking, Westoby draws upon a unique analytical framework to
help illuminate current community development policy and programme
challenges, along with practice dilemmas and wisdom.
This book offers a unique focus on the everyday ethics of community
development practice in the context of local and global struggles
for equity and social justice. Contributors from around the world
(from India to the Netherlands and USA) grapple with ethical
dilemmas and tensions, including how to: respect and learn from
Indigenous values and philosophies; challenge environmental
destruction; gain consent in divided communities; maintain or
breach professional boundaries; and develop new paradigms for
transformative community organising, sustainable development and
ethically-sensitive practice. Offering theoretical frameworks,
philosophical perspectives and practical case examples (from sex
worker collectives to tree action groups and Australian Indigenous
communities) this book is essential reading for community-based
practitioners, students and academics.
This book proposes that community development has been increasingly
influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational
philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving
community problems'. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps
the ground of community development practice within a frame of
ideas such as dialogue, hospitality and depth. For the first time
community development practitioners are provided with an accessible
understanding of dialogue and its relevance to their practice,
exploring the contributions of internationally significant thinkers
such as P. Freire, M. Buber, D. Bohm and H.G Gadamer, J. Derrida,
G. Esteva and R. Sennett. What makes the book distinctive is that:
first, it identifies a dialogical tradition of community
development and considers how such a tradition shapes practice
within contemporary contexts and concerns - economic, social,
political, cultural and ecological. Second, the book contrasts such
an approach with technical and instrumental approaches to
development that fail to take complex systems seriously. Third, the
approach links theory to practice through a combination of
storytelling and theory-reflection - ensuring that readers are
drawn into a practice-theory that they feel increasingly confident
has been 'tried and tested' in the world over the past 25 years.
This handbook sets a new research agenda in community development.
The contributors redefine existing areas within the context of
interdisciplinary research, highlight emerging areas for community
development related research, and provide researchers and
post-graduate students with ideas and encouragement for future
research activity. To do this, the editors have deliberately chosen
to frame this book not through a traditional sociological lens of
class, race and gender, but through a "Wicked Problems" framework.
Drawing upon the work of 37 international authors, in diverse
settings such as West Papua, Peru, the USA and Australia; and with
methodologies equally as diverse, from case studies and interviews
to the use of music and story-telling, this handbook focuses upon
five Wicked Problems: forced displacement; family, gender and child
related violence; indigenous marginalisation; climate change and
food security; and human survival in the context of disaster and
recovery work. By drawing together leading scholars from community
development, social work and social policy, this handbook provides
an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as
signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book
is both an invaluable resource for both scholars and practitioners
and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom and in
the field.
This book proposes a socially-oriented model of healing, which
augurs a fundamental shift in thinking about refugee settlement:
instead of focusing on the past experiences of refugees it is the
present world and context of settlement that should be the primary
focus for healing work. This book, steeped in the author's
experience and extensive research, boldly and convincingly proposes
a paradigmatic shift in the theory and practice of working with
refugees. As such, the book provides an indispensible contribution
to existing debates about refugee settlement and charts new ground
for future inquiry.
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