Community Development in Theory and Practice: An International Reader - Softcover

Keith Popple

Softcover

ISBN 10: 085124730X ISBN 13: 9780851247304

Publisher: Spokesman Books, 2008

Synopsis

Since its establishment in 1966, the Community Development Journal has maintained its position as the leading international journal for practitioners, academics and policy-makers across the world. To celebrate its fortieth anniversary, the CDJ's Editorial Board commissioned three highly experienced members, two of them former editors, to bring together a representative sample of the best writing from the Journal. The thirty chapters in this volume, including an entirely new introductory contextual essay, are drawn from every corner of the world, demonstrating the richness and diversity of community development theory and practice. Despite this diversity, the changing foci of community development and the varying contexts in which it is practised, the chapters all reflect the commitment of community development theorists and practitioners to engage critically with the key values of social justice -- equality, fairness, participatory development and respect for difference. This book will become a key text for those concerned with implementing these values in practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spokesman Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 085124730X
• ISBN 13: 9780851247304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Keith Popple, Mae Shaw, Gary Craig