Participatory Development Practice: Using traditional and contemporary frameworks - Softcover

Kelly, Anthony; Westoby, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185339999X ISBN 13: 9781853399992

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

From indigenous people’s groups, classroom teachers, and local and international community workers comes the desire to build community. Participatory Development Practice provides a theoretical and applied base for rethinking development practice that is deeply influenced by a ‘community’ development tradition.

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About the Authors

Anthony Kelly has been involved in development work for more than forty years. He taught development practice at The University of Queensland for twenty-five years. In more recent years Anthony has worked with a range of transnational mining companies helping them form productive relationships with local communities.

Peter Westoby has been involved in development practice for over thirty years, working as a grassroots practitioner, facilitator and scholar in diverse contexts such as Australia, PNG, the Philippines, Vanuatu, India, South Africa and Uganda. He is currently Associate Professor of Social Science and Community Development at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185339999X
• ISBN 13: 9781853399992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234