Active Citizenship and Community Learning (Empowering Youth and Community Work PracticeżLM Series) - Softcover

Packham, Carol

 
9781844451524: Active Citizenship and Community Learning (Empowering Youth and Community Work PracticeżLM Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1844451526 ISBN 13: 9781844451524
Publisher: Learning Matters, 2008

Synopsis

This book explores the role of the worker in facilitating participation, learning and active engagement within communities.

Focusing on recent initiatives to strengthen citizen and community engagement, it provides guidance, frameworks and activities to help in work with community members, either as different types of volunteers or as part of self-help groups. Setting community work as an educational process, the book also highlights dilemmas arising from possible interventions and gives strategies for reflective, effective practice.

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About the Author

Dr. Carol Packham is the Course Leader of the BA in Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the Director of the Community Audit and Evaluation Centre at MMU, and is co-ordinator of the NW Regional Take Part/Active Learning for Active Citizenship (ALAC) Network. Her work involves the encouragement of community based courses, with progression to MMU. She is an active community volunteer in her local inner city areas where she is the treasurer of a voluntary young peoples project and vice chair of a community forum. Her Doctor of Education (2006) drew on the ALAC work to explore the role for professional Youth and Community Workers in relation to volunteers.

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Publisher
Learning Matters
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1844451526
ISBN 13 
9781844451524
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
168