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The short guide to community development
- Authors:
- GILCHRIST Alison, TAYLOR Marilyn
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 184p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
The authors provide an introduction to the origins, current trends, and challenges in community development. The book includes both theoretical and ethical issues alongside the implications for practice and explores how community development can be applied in different practice domains to achieve a range of policy objectives. Chapters include: what is community development?; the changing context of community development; theoretical concepts; effective and ethical community development - what's needed?; applying community development in different service areas; challenges for practice; and current and future trends. The text is aimed at students studying for a degree or taking a module in the area as well as those already involved in community development and community organisation.
Independent Expert Panel on Community Development: final report and findings
- Author:
- INDEPENDENT EXPERT PANEL ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- Publisher:
- Community Development Exchange
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In June 2010, the Community Development Foundation (CDF) convened an Independent Expert Panel on Community Development. The panel was asked to offer high-level analysis, observations and recommendations on community development management and delivery in the light of the profound social, political, environmental and economic changes facing communities, civil society and local government. To aid the panel, CDF produced 3 discussion papers providing background information on the following themes: the current position of community development; the current political and economic context; and new models of support for community action. The panel members met in September and October 2010 for formal facilitated discussions, and also attended public meetings to discuss the issues raised by the papers. This report describes the panel’s deliberations and its recommendations to: government; community development practitioners; community development organisations; foundations, trusts and socially responsible business; and to civil society organisations and local government. It starts by summarising the 3 papers produced by CDF, the panel’s responses to the papers, and the wider responses received when the papers were published. The final part of the report outlines the key recommendations in detail and sets out the next steps agreed by the panel.
Community development and civil society: making connections in the European context
- Authors:
- HENDERSON Paul, VERCSEG Ilona
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 224p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book explores the extent to which the ideas and practice of community development are similar across Europe with special reference to the UK and Hungary. The authors aim to show how community development connects powerfully with civil society and argue that it is both a professional and a social movement and can be applied to a wide range of issues including socialisation, economic wealth, social participation, social control and mutual support. Practicalities of participation, localisation and regional and global challenges provide a context for the discussion and analysis of democracy and governance in community development. The book places these concepts within an appraisal of civil society and the contrasting ways in which this key component of a democratic society is defined. The authors link case studies with discussion of community development principles and theory to demonstrate their arguments. Among the chapter headings are: civil society; community development; socialisation; economic wealth; social participation; social control; mutual support and solidarity; potential of community development; and learning and support. The text is written to appeal to both students and practitioners, and is also expected to be of interest to managers and policy-makers responsible for community programmes and policies.
The phenomenology of development
- Author:
- KOWALSKI Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 26(2-3), June 2010, pp.153-164.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Development, in this article, refers to processes of changes in the capabilities of human communities. The phenomenology of development is offered as the way that development professionals explain the process of development as experienced by themselves and other stakeholders. This justification has itself changed and developed since President Truman coined the term, as theory and practice have proved inadequate. This article offers a brief history and explanation of this development, and attempts to focus on the paradoxical nature of the endeavour as an externally managed intervention. In particular, five paradoxes within development practice are identified as the core challenges to professional practice and congruence that we must address and resolve. These five paradoxes are: the paradox of helping to self-help – the self-sabotage of paternalism; the Samaritan’s dilemma or moral hazard – humanitarian aid and development assistance; the antimony of free will – autonomy and conditionality; the epigenic paradox of the individual creating society and society the individual; the paradox of sustainable development – growth through consumption and the inadequacy of a managerialist approach.
The rise of a 'social development' agenda in New Zealand
- Author:
- LUNT Neil
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 18(1), January 2009, pp.3-12.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Since 1999 New Zealand has seen the election of a series of Labour-led governments committed to a social policy framework of social development. This article outlines the background to the emergence of social development, tracing its antecedents in the neo-liberal administrations of the 1990s. The social development framework consists of commitments around economic development, human capital development, family development and politico-administrative redevelopment. Taking the position that reforms must be seen as concrete policy mechanisms and as discursive cues and conceptual apparatus, the article offers a comparison and critique. First, it identifies the continuities and contrasts with the previous neo-liberal framework of minimal social policy; and second, it begins the process of critically interrogating the potential citizenship implications of social development.
Community development and the politics of community
- Author:
- SHAW Mae
- Journal article citation:
- Community Development Journal, 43(1), January 2008, pp.24-36.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
In a context in which ‘community empowerment’ is virtually government policy, it is hardly surprising that there is almost no area of social policy that is immune from the community treatment. Of course, this is not new, despite the zeal with which each new initiative is ‘rolled out’. In fact, sometimes it seems that policy development needs to reinvent the wheel of community every decade or so. The question, therefore, is what this ideological recycling of community tells us: first, about the meaning of the term itself; second, about its contemporary significance within the wider politics of the state. This article argues that we need to draw on those historical and theoretical resources which help us to think our way through to the contemporary context. Only an active and engaged recognition of the politics of community will enable us to get to the root of the problematic yet promising nature of community development.
A new rural agenda
- Authors:
- MIDGLEY Jane, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Institute of Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 168p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Social justice has been pushed to the forefront of rural policy as a priority for Government action, yet it remains unclear how rural areas and progressive rural policy fit into the broader social justice agenda. Rural communities share the same aspirations as communities elsewhere: a prosperous local economy, excellent public services and increased control over their own destiny. However, the route to meeting these aspirations needs to be more readily defined and action taken to achieve these progressive and inclusive aims. This book identifies the key challenges facing rural public policy today.
Community development in the 21st century: a case of conditional development
- Author:
- POPPLE Keith
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 36(2), February 2006, pp.333-340.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
During the last 5 years, the UK government has increased support for and resources to community development projects and strategies. These interventions have been deployed to assist the state address key issues of social exclusion notably at neighbourhood level. The thrust for tackling social exclusion and therefore the growth in community development can be linked to New Labour’s adherence to a neo-liberal agenda. The two articles and the working paper considered here reflect this expansion of activity and articulate some of the central issues and challenges facing community development. The central problem for community development appears to be that whilst it has secured a more prominent place within contemporary social policies, it is in danger of losing its ability effectively to address the expressed needs of local communities. Hence the development we are witnessing can be considered to be a case of conditional development.
All is one: healthy communities and a sustainable future
- Author:
- KAJNER Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Community Development Journal, 40(4), October 2005, pp.447-452.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The ‘Community Development, Sustainable Development and the Environment’ section at the Budapest conference brought together people from Norway and Hungary involved in linking sustainable development and community development. Participants discussed ways of linking these issues and examples of good practice from each country. They summarized their conclusions for the Budapest Declaration. In this article the discussion and examples are presented.
Community development policy and legislation: the Dutch case
- Author:
- VOS Koos
- Journal article citation:
- Community Development Journal, 40(4), October 2005, pp.405-418.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Even before World War II, the settlement movement in the United Kingdom inspired people in the Netherlands to establish community and neighbourhood centres in urban as well as in rural areas, which developed a wide range of social cultural activities including support for the unemployed. In 1926 the first community development agency appeared in the northern province of Drente, where many workers from the peat areas were unemployed, poor and badly housed. The Central Association for the community development in Drenthe (Centrale Vereeniging voor de opbouw van Drenthe) had as a major goal the promotion of the cultural, economic and sanitary reconstruction of Drente. One of the principles adopted was the involvement of the people themselves: participation alongside the contribution of professionals, effectively community development workers ‘avant la lettre’.