Critical community practice / / Hugh L Butcher, Sarah withBanks, Paul Henderson, Jim Robertson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Butcher, Hugh L,; Henderson, Paul,; withBanks, Sarah,
• MitwirkendeR: Banks, Sarah,; Butcher, Hugh,; Henderson, Paul,; Robertson, Jim,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

With the increasing focus on 'community' as the site for renewing democracy, improving policymaking and enhancing service delivery, this book provides a challenging approach to understanding community practice. It offers a much-needed theoretical perspective, sets out an analysis of power and empowerment and explores new ways of understanding active citizenship. The book covers a wide range of theoretical and practice topics. First presenting a model of critical community practice, the authors draw upon a variety of case studies from Britain and elsewhere to discuss this in the context of work in and with community groups; management; policy and politics; and development of the critical practitioner. Demands being placed on individuals and organisations have become increasingly complex and greater clarity about community practice is needed. This book, designed to complement the authors' edited volume Managing Community Practice (The Policy Press, 2003) provides just that. The book's content will be of particular interest to those following the debates on community involvement in regeneration, social inclusion and health improvement programmes. It will provide a resource for those already engaged in community practice and thus inform the work of local authorities, government agencies, voluntary organisations and partnerships. It will be relevant reading for all those people working to promote change and development in communities. It will also be an essential text for students on a range of professional and management programmes in community development, health, housing, planning and other disciplines with a community focus.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Power and empowerment: the foundations of critical community practice -- What is critical community practice? Case studies and analysis -- Towards a model of critical community practice -- Working in and with community groups and organisations: processes and practices -- Critical community practice: organisational leadership and management -- Politics and policy: a critical community practice perspective -- Becoming critical: developing the community practitioner -- Conclusions -- References -- Index