The Barefoot Guide to Learning Practices in Organisations and Social Change: 2 - Softcover

The 2nd Barefoot Guide Writers' Collective

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853399620 ISBN 13: 9781853399626

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Organisations that are strong and wish to contribute to positive and sustainable social change have to be able to learn. The same is true of individuals who want to have a positive impact on their surroundings. They need to learn - from their communities, from their colleagues, from their mentors. But how can we go about becoming learning organisations and people? The Barefoot Guide 2 starts by asking the questions: How are we already learning? How can we start to become a healthier learning organisation? What is at the heart of our work? It then leads us through topics such as linking individual and organisational learning, creating a learning culture, community mobilising and development, adult learning, funding, evaluation, facilitation, and creative writing. The Barefoot Guide 2 is a practical resource for leaders, facilitators and practitioners involved in social change who want to improve and enrich their learning processes. But this is not just another book on organisational learning and social change. It is different in that it was not written by one person, neither is it a collection of essays written by different people. This book is the joint effort of a group of development practitioners from across the globe, all passionate about learning and bringing their different experience and expertise to the book. The Barefoot Guides are created by writers' collectives drawn from the Barefoot Guide Connection -- a global and local community of social change leaders and practitioners, from many countries, sharing diverse practices to deepen and develop approaches and initiatives to contribute to a changing world.

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About the Author

The Barefoot Connection is a global team of collaborating practitioners and activists from the Community Development Resource Association (South Africa), Voluntary Service Overseas (Nepal, Cameroon, Canada), ActionAid (Ghana, India), the Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa), the Church Land Programme (South Africa), and independent practitioners. Valuable contributions were also received from The Democracy Development Programme (South Africa) and Oxfam UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853399620
• ISBN 13: 9781853399626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 223