Community Development

Margaret Ledwith is one of the UK's most highly regarded community development practitioners and academics. This book, developed from her classic text, "Participating in Transformation", is an invaluable new resource for students and practitioners in the field. The book advocates a critical approach to community development that locates theory in practice, emphasising its transformative rather than ameliorative potential. Grounded in the pedagogy of Paulo Freire and drawing on feminist and other relevant theories, it helps readers to:gain an understanding of key community development theories; develop practical skills alongside the ability to analyse and reflect; situate local practice within a global context. The text is brought to life through a series of narrative case studies, drawn from the author's own experiences, which clearly illustrate how to apply the ideas, models and analyses discussed. Dimensions of practice ranging from the personal to the political, and the local to the global, are addressed in relation to current crises of poverty, justice and sustainability. Practitioners, students and educators involved in community development, youth and community work, social work, health and education, as well as those in other professions that have a community development focus, will find this an invaluable contribution to theory and practice today.

ISBN 1861346956   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781861346957 (What's this?)   Pages 216 Publisher Policy Press   Volumes 1 Imprint Policy Press   Published in Bristol Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 02 Nov 2005   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2006445500   Spine width (mm) 144 DEWEY 307.14   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

Foreword ~ Ira Shor; Opening thoughts; Why empower?; The story of a community; Doing community development; Organising in the community; Collective action for change; The power of ideas; Critiques of Freire and Gramsci; Towards a Freirean-feminist pedagogy; The way forward.

"This is a wonderfully readable and thoughtful book that merges theory and practice in challenging social inequality - the late Paulo Freire's central concern. Margaret Ledwith's long experience in community work underlies the vitality and insight in this new edition. For studying community needs, and for the future of 'those-not-yet-in-power', Ledwith's new edition is essential reading." Professor Ira Shor, City University of New York Graduate School, USA

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