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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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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